#aidatacenters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aidatacenters, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/215490/ One Phone Call With Mark Zuckerberg Just Reshaped White House AI Policy #AI #AIDataCenters #FINRA #hassabis #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Sacks #Trump #WhiteHouse #zuckerberg
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https://www.europesays.com/people/214039/ G20 Tech Meeting Spotlights AI’s Two Big Bottlenecks; Musk Warns of at Least 15 GW Power Shortfall by 2027 — BigGo Finance #AIDataCenters #Anthropic #DeepMind #DemisHassabis #ElonMusk #g20 #Google #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #SpaceX
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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It turns out that AI processes pose unique problems for data centres and the grids that power them.
“Compared to a traditional Google search that would consume about 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, an AI query—such as a ChatGPT- or Google AI-powered response—can use up to 10 times as much.”
“Dramatic fluctuations can affect power quality through harmonic distortions’ to the grid.”
Read this concerning report from my colleague Chris Bonasia at The Energy Mix!
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The Alberta government is not telling you the whole truth about the impact of data centres on electricity prices.
But when Premier Danielle Smith was confronted with a Pembina analysis showing prices for consumers are likely going up - by hundreds of dollars annually - she as much as admitted it was true.
Her suggestion was that Albertans should lock in power prices before the massive Meta data centre comes online. And Meta is the first of many with the electricity regulator planning to double the amount of grid power it provides to data centres.
This is a policy choice the government is making, because there are better ways to do this.
Read my latest report for The Energy Mix!
#ableg #cdnpoli #electricity #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #affordability
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#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott on #AIDataCenter Backlash: 'They Dug Their Own Grave'
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell, August 23, 2026
"#NewYork Gov. #KathyHochul (D) and #Kentucky Gov. #AndyBeshear (D) have pushed back against the expansion of #AIDataCenters in their respective states. But with the increasing backlash from communities and individuals toward new #datacenter construction and expansion, even governors that have embraced the #AIRevolution, like #Pennsylvania's #JoshShapiro (D), are now moderating and talking about scaling back.
"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is one governor whose state has embraced the data center expansion. In November 2025, Abbott declared that Texas is the 'epicenter of AI development' in his announcement of #Google building three data center campuses to the tune of $40 million dollars.
"Fast forward to August of 2026, and Abbott acknowledges that much of the community resistance to the construction of new and existing data centers is the fault of the AI companies."
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"Abbott is not wrong. According to a report from #DataCenterWatch, 64 billion in data center projects have been blocked or delayed in #Arizona, #Utah, #Missouri, #Oregon, and #California, to name a few. Even formerly friendly #Virginia is pushing back. #CommunityOpposition surrounds the lack of information provided and the lack of accountability taken towards the citizens who will be most affected.
"Water and power concerns loom large. Many of the newer development concepts, like entrepreneur #KevinOLeary 's 9 megawatt #StratosProject in #Utah, will have their own self-sustaining water and power systems. However, this did not prevent the backlash by #environmentalists and local activists to shut the Stratos Project down, and Utah state lawmakers ultimately backpedaled from their original approval and requested O'Leary cut the project's 400,000-acre footprint down to 10,000, about 75 percent. "
#AISucks #AIDataCenters #AIResistance #USPol #WorldPol #Datacenters #Datacentres #AIDatacentres #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #LandIsLife #EnergyConsumption
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The AI data centre shenanigans in Alberta are getting more outlandish. More than 12,000 people attended a virtual town hall meeting, with many more left hanging when they weren’t invited to join the conference call.
Municipalities are hiding behind non-disclosure agreements, repeating marketing slogans directly from company promotions, and some are even signing agreements to act as agents for data centre proponents while also regulating them. Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
It’s the wild west for data centre developers with little or no guardrails for water use, electricity prices, farmland protection, noise/air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions or local community benefits.
It’s the perfect environment for misinformation to thrive.
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #water #electricitygrid #GHGemissions
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Frustrated about the lack of information about data centres in Alberta?
One woman decided to take the bull by the horns and build a website - one source of truth about all the data centres operating, approved, under construction and proposed.
There’s nothing like it anywhere else, including on the provincial government’s website.
I asked Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish, who has complained about misinformation at the recent town halls, several questions about transparency.
Despite promises to get back to me with answers…no response arrived as the publishing deadline came and went.
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-woman-maps-out-the-facts-about-power-hungry-data-centres/
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #maps #GHGemissions
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The Olds power plant/data centre is not in the public interest. Residents who’ve been fighting it for more than seven months are exhausted but elated. More than 900 people were granted intervenor status in the Alberta utility regulator’s hearing because it was determined they all could’ve been impacted.
It was too much, too close to people’s homes, and even without the government’s promised new rules around siting projects, the AUC said “enough.”
Read the breaking story!
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #saveolds #fossilfuels #climate
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The Energy Mix invited me to write an opinion/analysis of Sturgeon County’s late responses to my latest report on their declaration of an agricultural disaster, an outcome almost certainly due to climate change.
When asked about their approval of the Meta AI data centre, the mayor would not agree to an interview but one of the county’s managers replied a day and a half after the story was published. He had a lot to say (1,700+ words by my count) and we wanted you to read it first hand.
A non-disclosure agreement with Meta, a bylaw that blocks public input, “we have no authority” to consider climate change impacts, and absolutely no - we’re not looking at Meta’s conduct or court decisions finding them at fault.
Read the full response from Sturgeon County, with links to sources allowing for a deeper dive.
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #disaster #agriculture #climatechange.
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I'll have another piece about Meta's Sturgeon County AI data centre. It's coming out tomorrow and will be posted overnight.
The county's responses to my questions came in a day and a half late, but revealed some surprising things. So, we're running their full answers (with my commentary) in the Energy Mix Weekender edition on Substack. It's free to subscribe!
Most important question now is - WTH does "carbon-ready" even mean? And why is a government official now talking about this as if it is an actual "thing"?
Oh, and there's definitely been non-disclosure agreements signed.
In the meantime, here are seven ways governments can stop secret data centre deals, compiled by a US group called "Public Citizen."
TLDR: Just say no to NDA's
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I've got a breaking news story and I am shocked to report that everyone replied to my emails this time!
O'Leary's Wonder Valley project loses big in the courts today.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation wins big.
It turns out transparency is important for Court of King's Bench Justices. They get annoyed as much as we do when information is redacted.
#ableg #cdnpoli #WonderValleyAlberta #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #Indigenous #DutytoConsult #Justice
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Everything is GREAT, now we just need a customer!
BitCoin miner "BitFarms" completes data center transitions to now take on AI and HPC (high performance computing) workloads.
The data center developer currently has no operating bitcoin business in the United States and no signed AI tenant - but is sitting on ~$819M of total liquidity. https://unchainedcrypto.com/keel-completes-shutdown-of-all-u-s-bitcoin-mining-as-revenue-halves-and-operating-loss-hits-141-million/ #BitCoin #Crypto #BitCoinMiner #BitFarms #Keel #DataCenters #AI #AIDataCenters #HPC #BlockChain
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If you’re secretly approving a hyperscale data centre powered by fossil fuels in the middle of an agricultural disaster caused by climate pollution, then you should expect to be questioned.
Which probably explains why no one wanted to answer any of my questions. None of the provincial government ministers acknowledged my emails, Sturgeon County promised to get back to me but never did. Meta did not respond either.
Is everyone in denial?
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIdatacentres #disaster #climatecrisis #climatechange #pollution #AIdatacenters
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Only about half of the data centre decision-makers surveyed said they were holding public forums or investing in local initiatives, while recent national polling shows that only 33% of developers are addressing grid reliability, and only 29% are responding to water consumption concerns.
The report authors suggest “a disconnect between engagement efforts and community priorities.”
You’d think data centre developers would pay attention to communities…but, no. I guess at least $64 billion, 18 state bills and 86 local moratoriums proposed across the U.S. isn’t enough to convince them?
#ableg #cdnpoli #emissions #electricitygrid #AIdatacentres #AIDataCenters #WonderValleyAlberta #wondervalleyUtah #stratos
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/community-pushback-blocks-64b-in
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Data centres are coming for the Alberta grid…and a proposed new bridging program will give them an easy way in.
Story updated with full answers from AESO, and more commentary from the Pembina Institute.
“There’s a way to do it that makes sense and the way that Alberta is doing it doesn’t really line up with best practices that we’re seeing across the world.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/icymi-temporary-grid-power-for-data#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #Meta #electricitygrid #AIdatacentres #AIDataCenters
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#Kansas town is getting an underground #nuclear reactor [whether they like it or not!]
Story by Jessie Williams, July 29, 2026
"A pilot project to bury a #NuclearReactor one mile underneath a town in Kansas has split the opinion of local residents, with some fearing the #EnvironmentalImpacts while others hope it will create economic opportunities.
"The so-called #GravityReactor is being proposed by #DeepFission, a California-based start-up from a father-daughter duo, #LizMuller and #RichardMuller, emeritus professor of physics at University of California, and an inventor.
"It will be the first time a commercial nuclear reactor operates underground.
"The startup has raised around $150 million in the past year, with $40 million of that going to fund the work in #ParsonsKS, a rural town in Kansas with a population of 9,600.
"So far Deep Fission has drilled one test hole with a second due to be completed this year, and a full-scale prototype canister intended to test installation procedures.
"Their plan is to send the canister loaded with nuclear fuel into a third hole to heat water a mile underground and generate electricity on the surface in 2027 or 2028.
"But some people in Parsons are worried about the short time frame by industry standards and the impact on the #environment and their #WaterSupply.
"Each reactor would generate 15 megawatts of electricity from inside a 30-inch borehole, enough to power 12,000 homes. But Muller wants 100 or more reactors, providing more than a gigawatt – which would be enough for a #datacentre.
"The design relies on established pressurised water reactor technology, but with the reactor one mile underground, Deep Fission says it could remove some of the most expensive parts of conventional #NuclearPlants, as rock and water pressure could replace some costly #safety structures, such as #cooling and #containment.
"Nuclear only generates about a fifth of US electricity, but the Trump administration is seeking to kickstart a '#NuclearRenaissance,' aiming to quadruple America’s nuclear-power generation by 2050. It comes amid skyrocketing demand for electricity, mainly driven by data centres for AI."
#NoNukesForAI #AISucks #TrumpSucks #USPol #AIDatacenters #Datacenters #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #NuclearPowerPlant #SafetyStandards #EnvironmentalCosts
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“Hot people hate AI” - Photos from the Anti-AI protest in Calgary at the end of June.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/protest-featured-pokemon-llms-explained
#protest #streetphotography #photography #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #ableg #cdnpoli #artificialIntelligence
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Read my recent story about the Olds data centre/power plant controversy, if you haven’t already, and get caught up on some new developments…
For example, Synapse has hired a public affairs agency and registered lobbyists in Alberta. Who are they and what government departments are they targeting?
Behind-the-scenes of this story: Find out who didn’t answer my questions and who’s on-the-hook for 680 local interveners’ legal costs. AUC explains the process they use to figure out how much Synapse will have to pay.
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There’s a vacuum of accurate information around AI data centres, and misinformation/disinformation is filling that void…to the detriment of local communities and governments.
Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission said it was an existential threat to democracy.
“What we’re seeing across all democracies, in Canada and across the world, is a high level of distrust in government, a high level of distrust in journalism and in public institutions.”
But the federal government is lagging behind other countries in both creating regulations and funding solutions.
Read my newest article for The Energy Mix.
#AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #ableg #cdnpoli #democracy #journalism
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@JEmphatically/116931674609108584
Now with the YouTube link!
Glubish: "So the data centre is the digital refinery, the fiber is the digital pipeline. This is essentially a way for Albertans to benefit from their natural resources at a time when the rest of Canada is making it very difficult to build pipelines to move the hydrocarbons themselves."
(Carney's MOU's and Major Projects promises don't even register...)
https://youtu.be/F3X71XLg_Bo?si=57cGUAUsDlBPQb8s
#AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #ableg #cdnpoli #democracy #fossilFuels
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Kevin O’Leary explains the role of AI in war - “compliance by tenderization.”
“Every data centre built going forward in the US is going to have to give up at least 20% of its capacity to the US govt to protect the future of the US citizen and allied countries.”
https://youtube.com/shorts/BbGOXJ1xiKc?si=CIv5JulkU9Ky0ypU
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #AI #peace #sovereignty #democracy
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#Mississippi homeowners blame a noisy #DataCenter plant for sleepless nights. The mayor's advice? "Consider selling."
By Lauren Fichten, July 16, 2026
"It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday and 46-year-old Jason Haley was once again wide awake.
"The suburban silence that Haley had grown used to in his two decades as a resident of #SouthavenMS, had, for the last few months, been replaced by a constant whirring, like an airplane hovering over his home, he said.
"The noise keeping Haley awake was coming from a plant powering #ElonMusk's #xAI #datacenters in the area, according to a lawsuit filed in June against the company and its subsidiary, #MZXTech. Haley and two other #Southaven residents, who live within a mile of the plant, allege in the suit that 'near-constant' noise and vibrations are causing negative physical and psychological health effects.
"The filing comes amid growing #resistance toward data center development, with the majority of Americans opposing local construction of a data center, according to a Gallup poll published earlier this year.
"Similar disputes are playing out across the country, like in #MountPleasantWI, where a lawsuit this month filed by residents alleges a data center emits 'unreasonable and excessive noise' onto residents' properties and in #LowellMA [a city with a large #Latino population -- #EnvironmentalRacism], where noise from a data center's cooling center 'disrupts neighbors' sleep,' according to an April suit.
"There are more than 4,000 data centers in the U.S., according to a recent United Nations report. To power the data centers, developers are building their own plants, sometimes with little warning to residents like Haley.
"Haley reached out to Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite about the noise in emails he shared with CBS News. In one last November, he urged Musselwhite to drive through the neighborhood 'and take a listen to the constant #HighPitch noises.' "
" 'I am aware of the noise and working on a solution with xAI officials,' Musselwhite had responded to Haley an hour later. 'It is a problem,' he said in another email later in the day.
"But soon, another sleepless night rolled around and Haley was emailing the mayor again.
""Anyone else I can reach out to?" Haley wrote to Musselwhite. "It's almost 4 am and I can hear it from my bed. The high pitch and roaring combined is full force at this time. My ears are ringing. I can't live in this. How was this ever approved?"
[In a later email, this was Musselwhite's response] "I know they want houses for employees, so you may want to consider selling your home." 😡
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-elon-musk-xai-data-center-power-plant-noise/#ElonSucks #BigDataSucks #NoisePollution #BigData
#CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #USPol
#AISucks #DatacenterMoratorium
#AIDatacenters #EnvironmentalRacism
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#MarkCarney is attempting to force #Canadians into a “let the motherfucker burn” moment in regards to #climatechange and our country’s response.
Turncoat #Liberals and their supporting #Corporations are tripling down on #climatedestruction with new #pipelines, #aidatacenters, and #LNG, despite the majority of Canadians opposing abandoning our climate goals.
After all our work fighting Climate Change, Corporate propaganda now tells us “It’s inevitable, get used to it”.
What’s made clear is that the #economy means more to corporate owned politicians than our communities or our votes.
Ultimately, #Corporatism will rule over the people’s interest, no matter how much our communities will pay.
These #neocon #CarneyLiberals gave strategic voters in #cdnpoli exactly what we voted against, a conservative agenda.
This is political fraud, yet few seem to notice due to Carney’s #ShockDoctrine threat of a racist, fascist old fart who will be dead in a year or two.
Carney’s #Liberals are #traitors to our country and this #earth, every single one of them. Vote them all out.
#canpoli #sellouts #liars #profiteers #electionreform #ndp #avilewiis
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#Siskiyou County could retire large water well on #MountShasta instead of approving #AIDataCenter
The inland #NorthernCalifornia site at the edge of town was former Coca Cola bottling plant, sold then expanded to produce flavored drinks, that market shrinking so now sold again.
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#Wyoming - #Meta #Datacenter water discharges suspended after #contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with [ #AntibioticResistant ] #bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in #Cheyenne’s water system
The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.
By Luke James
July 4, 2026"The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to #GoatSystemsLLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying #CupriavidusGilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup. The Board revoked the contractor's fill-and-flush discharge privileges on March 24, and a wider suspension now covers every data center connected to city services.
"#FillAndFlush is a commissioning step in which crews fill a cooling loop's piping with water, flush it to clear debris before the system is run, and then send the used water to drain. Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne's sanitary sewer, Frank Strong, the Board's engineering and water resource division manager, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Strong said the fill water had been purchased from the Board itself and that the origin of the bacterium remains unknown, but said that lab staff caught it in February during routine fecal-bacteria sampling. 'This isn't something we normally test for,' Strong told the paper.
"#Microsoft and #Nvidia market #SealedLiquidLoops as a near-#ZeroWater alternative to evaporative cooling, an approach that is spreading quickly as #AIDataCenters expand into more communities. Microsoft describes cooling systems that are filled once during construction and then recirculate the same water, while Nvidia's Rubin platform runs a coolant that is 75% water and 25% propylene glycol. That one-time fill, however, is the step that produces a discharge, and the flush water leaves the site before the loop is sealed.
"Strong went on to add that the Board's concern extends past the finding of the bacterium, because closed-loop systems can carry #glycol and other #chemicals that municipal treatment plants aren't built to process. #CheyenneWY sprays its reclaimed water on #parks, golf courses, and other #GreenSpaces, and the Board worried the bacterium could become an aerosol hazard during irrigation. Cupriavidus gilardii isn't a regulated contaminant, yet the discharge disrupted treatment sufficiently to trigger pass-through and interference findings under the Cheyenne City Code and federal pretreatment rules.
"Meta said that it's supporting its general contractor, #Fortis, which stopped discharging and began hauling wastewater offsite, and that independent testing found no trace of the substance. Testing at the #DryCreek and #CrowCreek facilities cleared in late June, and the reuse system is back online. Cheyenne City Councilman Pete Laybourn called the disclosure 'a very, very unpleasant surprise.' The Board hasn't said how the suspension affects other Cheyenne data centers still under construction."
#DataCenters #WaterIsLife #NoWaterForAI #BigDataLies #NoWaterForDatacenters
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Unfortunately, both articles are behind paywalls -- but you get the gist...
#GallupNM #datacenter water deal draws #Navajo concerns
By Donovan Quintero | May 14, 2026
"A proposed data center on Gallup’s eastern industrial edge has raised questions about water, jobs, public notice and whether the project could affect the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
"The Gallup City Council is considering whether to extend a long-term reclaimed water option tied to #TeraplexDataCentersLLC, a Virginia limited liability company identified in city documents as seeking to develop industrial and commercial uses, including a data center, on roughly 330 acres in Gallup.
"Public materials describe Teraplex as a modular data center and power infrastructure company focused on #AI computing, integrated power systems and factory-built infrastructure. Publicly available company materials do not clearly identify completed or operating data center campuses owned by Teraplex."
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/gallup-data-center-water-deal-draws-navajo-concerns/
Gallup data center proposal raises water, jobs and notice concerns
Marcus Williams, 5/17/2026
"A 330-acre #GallupTradeport data center could send nearly 110 million gallons of #wastewater a year into a water-stressed region already waiting on #NavajoGallup deliveries.
"Gallup City Council put off action April 29 on a wastewater deal tied to a proposed 330-acre data center in the Gallup Tradeport, and the scale alone sharpened the stakes: nearly 110 million gallons of wastewater a year could be routed to the project if the agreement advances.
"That number is now colliding with a much larger question in McKinley County and across the Eastern Navajo Nation, who bears the risk if a private technology campus moves ahead in a region where water is already scarce. At a May 14 discussion, speakers raised concerns about water use, public notice and whether the project could affect the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, the long-delayed system meant to carry municipal and industrial water from the #SanJuanRiver to Gallup, the eastern #NavajoNation and the southwestern #JicarillaApache Nation."
https://www.prismnews.com/local/mckinley-nm/gallup-data-center-proposal-raises-water-jobs-and-notice
#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeDrought
#Dine #WaterIsLife #WaterShortage #NoWaterForDatacenters
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KKR bets $10 billion that AI needs its own infrastructure empire
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/kkr-10-billion-ai-infrastructure-empire/
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Riot Platforms Balances Cooling Lawsuit Risk With Nuclear Powered AI Ambitions https://www.byteseu.com/2091160/ #AIDataCenters #BitcoinMining #CoolingTechnology #DataCenter #FutureEnergy #MoltenSaltReactors #Nuclear #NuclearEnergy #PatentInfringementLawsuit #RIOTPLATFORMS #TerrestrialEnergy
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We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5p426fSlYH4&si=BIljvy4lnXqIM9sQ#AIDataCenter #aidatacenters #ai #fossilfuels #pollution #AIPolllution
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CW: Political corruption, environmental hazards, global geopolitical instability
The Grip on the Flow: Navigating America's Hidden Crises
WASHINGTON D.C. / CIVICOHUB — While mainstream media networks ossify into pre-packaged narratives and algorithmic clickbait, a quiet war for truth is unfolding across the American political and legal landscape. The real stories shaping the future of the nation are often buried beneath the noise.Independent journalist, attorney, and leading Gen Z voice Aaron Parnas continuously exposes what the established order prefers to keep in the shadows through his platform, The Parnas Perspective. For CivicoHub, we break down the critical flashpoints from this month (May 2026) where corporate overreach, technological advancement, and political power frontally collide with the interests of the sovereign citizen.
I. Financial Conflicts and the Illusion of Accountability
The intersection of law, governance, and wealth in the United States has increasingly mutated into a protected marketplace for the elite. Recent independent investigations have broken stories regarding massive corruption allegations tied directly to the highest levels of government.Reports indicate widespread controversies surrounding the administration trading stocks and cutting closed-door deals while the public grapples with soaring prices and economic instability. While an ordinary citizen faces immediate federal prosecution for insider trading or financial deception, the political elite remains dangerously insulated. This dynamic exposes a two-tiered justice system where the powerful evade accountability, underscoring the reality that demanding transparency in the US requires confronting deeply entrenched oligarchic structures.
II. Geopolitical Instability and the Failed Summit
Information sovereignty requires real-time, unfiltered access to global events, yet the narrative surrounding America's foreign policy is heavily managed. Over the past week, intense geopolitical friction has come to a head with a highly anticipated summit in China.Despite attempts by legacy media to spin the narrative, independent reporting has highlighted that the summit severely fractured, with the administration reportedly "rattled" and "shaken" as negotiations collapsed and global protests expanded. The vacuum created by geopolitical instability forces critical thinkers to abandon traditional cable news pools and seek out decentralized, uncensored spaces to understand the actual stakes of America's shifting position on the world stage.
III. The Human Cost of the AI Arms Race
While the corporate sector aggressively pushes the narrative of artificial intelligence as a pure technological miracle, the physical infrastructure required to power this leap is having devastating, localized consequences.Independent investigations this month have taken a dark turn, uncovering the severe environmental and public health impacts of massive AI data centers on surrounding American communities. The localized pollution and heavy resource extraction required to maintain these centers are actively harming citizens. When multinational corporations and tech billionaires prioritize a technological arms race over human life and environmental safety, independent journalism becomes an essential act of civic defense.
Fact Check & Verification Sheet (May 2026 Data)
1. Executive Corruption and Stock TradingStatus: TRUE
Claim: Massive corruption allegations have surfaced regarding elite stock trading and backroom deal-making during a period of soaring national prices.
Verification: Aaron Parnas broke this down in his May 2026 broadcast titled "Breaking: Massive Corruption Uncovered as Trump Trades Stock and Cuts Deals."
Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949
2. The Collapsed China Summit
Status: TRUE
Claim: The recent diplomatic summit in China failed, leading to international tension and a weakened U.S. negotiating position.
Verification: Covered extensively by Parnas in multiple May 2026 episodes, including "Breaking: Trump Caves to China as Summit Fails and Protests Grow" and "Trump Rattled and Shaken as China Issues Stark Warning."
Source: https://aaronparnas.substack.com
3. The Dark Turn of AI Data Centers
Status: TRUE
Claim: The aggressive expansion of AI data centers is causing severe pollution and health hazards, actively harming American communities.
Verification: Parnas dedicated a specific investigative episode to this environmental crisis in May 2026, titled "Breaking: Data Centers Kill Americans as AI Race Takes Dark Turn," focusing on the lethal localized pollution generated by these facilities.
Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949
Tags: #CivicoHub #SovereignSocial #InformationSovereignty #USPolitics #CorporateAccountability #AIDataCenters #Geopolitics #IndependentJournalism #Fediverse #AaronParnas
Context & Background:
The Untold Story of Aaron Parnas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEc_mFdDjU -
Speaking of #CorporateSuckups... Way to NOT get my vote, #JanetMills! 🖕🏼
Janet Mills vetoes #Maine #DataCenter ban
by Ethan Andrews, April 24, 2026
"Gov. Janet Mills on Friday vetoed a bill that would have created a temporary statewide ban on large #DataCenters.
"The bill passed by the Maine Legislature earlier this month would enact an 18-month moratorium on new data centers that use more than 20 #megawatts of power.
"It would have made Maine the first state in the country to enact such a ban on the controversial facilities, which support #CloudComputing and artificial intelligence at the cost of large amounts of electricity and #water."
Read more:
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/24/politics/janet-mills-vetoes-maine-data-center-ban/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DlifM#AISucks #DatacenterMoratorium #AIDatacenters #EnvironmentalRacism #PreyingOnThePoor #BigDataSucks #EnergyVampires #NoisePollution #MainePol #ResistAI #WaterIsLife #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanStupidity
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Ummmm... Not everyone!
"Altman's statement reflects optimism about the usefulness of future AI systems, but despite warnings of an AI bubble and criticism of the underlying technology, there is still actual unmet demand for generative AI capacity today. ChatGPT serves 700 million weekly active users, more than double the US population, who regularly use the AI assistant to develop software, provide personal advice, and compose or edit correspondence and reports. While the outputs may be imperfect at times, people apparently still want them."
Why does #OpenAI need six giant data centers?OpenAI's new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.
Benj Edwards – Sep 24, 2025
[How many of these places are low on water resources? Quite a few!!!] "The five new sites will include three locations developed through an OpenAI and #Oracle partnership: #ShackelfordCounty, #Texas; #DoñaAnaCounty, #NewMexico; and an unspecified #Midwest location. These sites, along with a 600-megawatt expansion near the flagship #Stargate site in #AbileneTx, can deliver over 5.5 gigawatts of capacity, which means the computers on site will be able to draw up to 5.5 billion watts of electricity when running at full load. The companies expect the sites to create over 25,000 onsite jobs.
"Two of the sites will be developed through a partnership between SoftBank and OpenAI. One site in #LordstownOH, where #SoftBank has broken ground, is on track to be operational next year. The second site in #MilamCounty, #Texas, will be developed with #SBEnergy, a SoftBank Group company. These two sites may scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months.
"The new sites will join the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas. Oracle began delivering #Nvidia hardware to that site in June, and OpenAI has already begun training (building new models) and inference (running #ChatGPT) using the data center."
Read more:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/#AIDataCenters #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #FossilFuels #EnergyWaste #NoNukesForAI #NoNukesForDatacenters #AISucks #UseYourBrain #ThinkForYourself
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Ummm... Yeah. There's a big problem with putting #Datacenters in space -- who is going to fix them?!! Or will it just add to all the #SpaceJunk already floating around, waiting to collide!
"For one thing, the systems [Ali Hajimiri of Cal Tech] imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and 'obsolescence would be a problem' because making repairs or upgrades would be confoundingly difficult. Hajimiri believes that data centers in space could, someday, be a viable solution but hesitates to say when that day might come. 'Definitely it would be doable in a few years,' he said. 'The question is how effective they would be, and how cost-effective they would become.' "
Data centers gobble Earth’s resources. What if we took them to space instead?
A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.Sophie Hurwitz Climate Solutions Fellow
Published
Sep 12, 2025"The companies frantically building and leasing data centers are well aware that they’re straining grids, driving emissions, and guzzling #water. The electricity demand of #AIDataCenters in particular could increase as much as 165 percent by 2030. Over half of the energy powering these sprawling facilities comes from #FossilFuels, threatening to reverse progress toward addressing the #ClimateCrisis.
"Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence say they have a solution: Just stick these colossal computer clusters in space. #OpenAI CEO #SamAltman told #manosphere podcaster Theo Vonn that he considers a massive expansion of data centers inevitable. 'I do guess a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time,' he said. (This is not, in fact, inevitable, but the result of unfathomably wealthy companies choosing to invest unfathomably large sums of money. Altman has speculated that he would quite literally put trillions into it, and OpenAI is part of the consortium behind the $500 billion Stargate project.)"
Read more / listen:
https://grist.org/climate-energy/data-centers-gobble-earths-resources-what-if-we-took-them-to-space-instead/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us