AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year
Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Data centers don’t pay their ‘fair share’ of electricity costs. Here’s why
Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.Many major tech companies have pledged to pay their fair share of the costs associated with generating and transmitting more electricity to serve large data centers. But ratepayers across the United States ar
‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. - POLITICO
Extreme temperatures threaten to strain the grid as data centers are increasing energy demand. What could go wrong?
Hundreds of data centers are coming to Texas. Here’s what you need to know.
Texas is experiencing an AI-driven data center boom with at least 248 projects planned statewide. Here’s what to know about the industry’s rapid growth and the debate over its impact.In the span of a …
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: The Empire of AI Comes to Texas: Data Centers, Coloniality, and Resistance in Texas, Chile, and Beyond, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.
How to Stop A Data Center in Your Backyard ~ L.A. TACO
These are lessons from San Gabriel Valley neighbors and activists who outsmarted developers and lobbyists.
isabelle on X: "i made a map to monitor data centers all around the world tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!) https://t.co/oKVjhXLGzv" / X
Data Center Map: This interactive map tracks the construction of AI data center projects and legislation in your region
Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine. - POLITICO
Getting data centers to generate their own electricity may ease one obstacle to public acceptance of data centers. But it creates new hurdles.
AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2
: Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate
Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is
: Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035