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Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (879+ words) Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction. In addition to some interesting developments in the Los Angeles primary " the results of which…...
The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren't the Villain
3+ week, 1+ day ago (668+ words) Public'backlash'toward data centers is escalating. Activist groups gather to voice concerns, and in some cities, council members are being voted out of office for approving data center construction. Extreme resistance includes an Indianapolis councilman receiving 13 bullet holes through his front…...
Britain's Skyrocketing Green Energy Prices are Forcing Internet Providers to Ration Access
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (509+ words) " Energy costs are continuing to surge with prices increasing by 70% in recent years. " Brits could have mobile phone data rationed under emergency plans " full list of networks Mobile phone network operators have given a stark warning as the war in…...
The data center energy threat is way overblown
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (687+ words) False fears of a flood of data centers is warping the electric power policy debate. Here are three little numbers that tell the story. Well, actually, it is two little real numbers and one huge fantasy number (which is the…...
Off-Grid Data Centers Will Help Protect Ratepayers, But Codifying ARC-ES Would Do Even More
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (731+ words) This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission." Between the war in Iran, the controversies involving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and other developing national and world events, a pledge made in…...
Open Thread " Watts Up With That?
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (8+ words) A place for discussion A place for discussion...
LIVE OPEN WUWT VIDEO CHAT ON THURSDAY 3 PM EST
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (52+ words) Both Charles and I will be on the call. DETAILS: Thursday, January 29 " 12: 00 " 1: 00pm PST" 3 PM-4 PM EST Google Meet joining info: Or dial: "(US) +1 475-549-0446 PIN: "158 828 704# Caveat: Boorish disruptions, bad behavior and calling us "deniers" will be met with "insta-ban."...
Data centers are the physical internet
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1121+ words) Building new data centers has become highly controversial. This massive public debate suffers from a major confusion in that what data centers do is seldom mentioned, except that they do AI, which is also controversial. The vague name "data centers…...
Ireland Turns Back on Data'Centres
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (580+ words) Much of Ireland's economic growth in the last three decades has come from the onshoring of high tech companies, including data centres. But it appears Ireland no longer want them, "cos of climate change. The CRU, the Irish equivalent of…...
DOE Grid Policy & Data Centers: New Thinking Ahead?
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (391+ words) Ideas have consequences. Even new pathbreaking ones that are shaking the foundations of the Federal Power Act of 1938 and state public utility regulation." The Department of Energy has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to federalize and streamline the connection…...