#aidatacentres — Public Fediverse posts
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NIMBY anger: Sydney residents tell Senate inquiry they want AI data centres out of town
The impending impact of artificial intelligence infrastructure on Australian communities will be laid bare as metropolitan residents advocate…
#Australia #Sydney #aap #aidatacentres #auspol #contributorpost #news
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https://www.europesays.com/people/236457/ The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give #AI #AIDanger #AIDataCentres #AIDebate #AIHype #AIRisk #AIWarfare #altman #Amodei #AnthropicIPO #ChristianBale #ClaudeVsGemini #DarioAmodei #ElonMusk #PentagonAI #TimnitGebru
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With the public clamouring to have a say in data centre projects in their communities. The federal government thought it WOULD BE FINE if it didn’t ask for public input on its “responsible data centre principles.”
So they got together with a bunch of mayors and a bunch of big tech companies this past summer to come up with principles meant to reassure the public.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard AI and data centre proponents talking about the need to build public trust at the AI event in Montreal.
Everyone there seemed perplexed why there was a large protest outside the conference and an even larger number of Canadians opposed to data centres in their communities.
Maybe they should stop doing everything behind closed doors, but what do I know.
Read my latest for The Energy Mix!
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With the public clamouring to have a say in data centre projects in their communities. The federal government thought it WOULD BE FINE if it didn’t ask for public input on its “responsible data centre principles.”
So they got together with a bunch of mayors and a bunch of big tech companies this past summer to come up with principles meant to reassure the public.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard AI and data centre proponents talking about the need to build public trust at the AI event in Montreal.
Everyone there seemed perplexed why there was a large protest outside the conference and an even larger number of Canadians opposed to data centres in their communities.
Maybe they should stop doing everything behind closed doors, but what do I know.
Read my latest for The Energy Mix!
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With the public clamouring to have a say in data centre projects in their communities. The federal government thought it WOULD BE FINE if it didn’t ask for public input on its “responsible data centre principles.”
So they got together with a bunch of mayors and a bunch of big tech companies this past summer to come up with principles meant to reassure the public.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard AI and data centre proponents talking about the need to build public trust at the AI event in Montreal.
Everyone there seemed perplexed why there was a large protest outside the conference and an even larger number of Canadians opposed to data centres in their communities.
Maybe they should stop doing everything behind closed doors, but what do I know.
Read my latest for The Energy Mix!
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With the public clamouring to have a say in data centre projects in their communities. The federal government thought it WOULD BE FINE if it didn’t ask for public input on its “responsible data centre principles.”
So they got together with a bunch of mayors and a bunch of big tech companies this past summer to come up with principles meant to reassure the public.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard AI and data centre proponents talking about the need to build public trust at the AI event in Montreal.
Everyone there seemed perplexed why there was a large protest outside the conference and an even larger number of Canadians opposed to data centres in their communities.
Maybe they should stop doing everything behind closed doors, but what do I know.
Read my latest for The Energy Mix!
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With the public clamouring to have a say in data centre projects in their communities. The federal government thought it WOULD BE FINE if it didn’t ask for public input on its “responsible data centre principles.”
So they got together with a bunch of mayors and a bunch of big tech companies this past summer to come up with principles meant to reassure the public.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard AI and data centre proponents talking about the need to build public trust at the AI event in Montreal.
Everyone there seemed perplexed why there was a large protest outside the conference and an even larger number of Canadians opposed to data centres in their communities.
Maybe they should stop doing everything behind closed doors, but what do I know.
Read my latest for The Energy Mix!
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Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards
A ban on smart glasses capable of covertly recording people is being considered for Commonwealth buildings amid concerns…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIdatacentres #AIGlasses #apscommission #artificialintelligenceaustralia #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #AustralianPublicServiceCommission #metaglasses #smartglasses #Technology
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Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards
A ban on smart glasses capable of covertly recording people is being considered for Commonwealth buildings amid concerns…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIdatacentres #AIGlasses #apscommission #artificialintelligenceaustralia #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #AustralianPublicServiceCommission #metaglasses #smartglasses #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/895416/ -
Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards https://www.byteseu.com/2374040/ #AI #AiDataCentres #AIGlasses #ApsCommission #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligenceAustralia #Australia #AustralianPublicServiceCommission #MetaGlasses #SmartGlasses
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Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards
A ban on smart glasses capable of covertly recording people is being considered for Commonwealth buildings amid concerns…
#Australia #AI #aidatacentres #AIglasses #apscommission #ArtificialIntelligence #artificialintelligenceaustralia #AU #australianpublicservicecommission #Austrlia #metaglasses #smartglasses
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Some of the protesters outside a recent data centre developers conference in Calgary tell me their concerns.
“..it’s not including new treatments, it’s not including new best practices, it’s not including stuff that’s, you know, culturally competent, because it’s taking 100 years of medical science and vomiting it into a new textbook, which isn’t accurate.”
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/ai-replicating-all-of-the-historical
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Some of the protesters outside a recent data centre developers conference in Calgary tell me their concerns.
“..it’s not including new treatments, it’s not including new best practices, it’s not including stuff that’s, you know, culturally competent, because it’s taking 100 years of medical science and vomiting it into a new textbook, which isn’t accurate.”
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/ai-replicating-all-of-the-historical
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Some of the protesters outside a recent data centre developers conference in Calgary tell me their concerns.
“..it’s not including new treatments, it’s not including new best practices, it’s not including stuff that’s, you know, culturally competent, because it’s taking 100 years of medical science and vomiting it into a new textbook, which isn’t accurate.”
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/ai-replicating-all-of-the-historical
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Some of the protesters outside a recent data centre developers conference in Calgary tell me their concerns.
“..it’s not including new treatments, it’s not including new best practices, it’s not including stuff that’s, you know, culturally competent, because it’s taking 100 years of medical science and vomiting it into a new textbook, which isn’t accurate.”
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/ai-replicating-all-of-the-historical
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Some of the protesters outside a recent data centre developers conference in Calgary tell me their concerns.
“..it’s not including new treatments, it’s not including new best practices, it’s not including stuff that’s, you know, culturally competent, because it’s taking 100 years of medical science and vomiting it into a new textbook, which isn’t accurate.”
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/ai-replicating-all-of-the-historical
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Hyundai Targets 2029 For Its Own Advanced Driver-Assist System
Summarize with:OpenAI ChatGPT Google AI New Delhi, September 13(APAC Media): Hyundai Motor Group is expanding its work on…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #HyundaiMotor #AIdatacentres #driver-assistsystem #Hyundai #hyundaiadas #hyundaiatria #hyundaiautonomousdriving #hyundaidriverassistsystem #hyundaidriverassistance #HyundaiMotorGroup #hyundainvidia #hyundaiselfdrivingtechnology #level2+adas #NVIDIA #nvidiahyperion10
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Well, this is a blockbuster of a document leak.
So, the goal is more revenue for government coffers and too bad that Albertans will have to empty their wallets. Huh.
Great work by The Narwhal bringing this to light!
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-data-centre-takeover-cabinet-doc/
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Well, this is a blockbuster of a document leak.
So, the goal is more revenue for government coffers and too bad that Albertans will have to empty their wallets. Huh.
Great work by The Narwhal bringing this to light!
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-data-centre-takeover-cabinet-doc/
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Well, this is a blockbuster of a document leak.
So, the goal is more revenue for government coffers and too bad that Albertans will have to empty their wallets. Huh.
Great work by The Narwhal bringing this to light!
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-data-centre-takeover-cabinet-doc/
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Well, this is a blockbuster of a document leak.
So, the goal is more revenue for government coffers and too bad that Albertans will have to empty their wallets. Huh.
Great work by The Narwhal bringing this to light!
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-data-centre-takeover-cabinet-doc/
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Well, this is a blockbuster of a document leak.
So, the goal is more revenue for government coffers and too bad that Albertans will have to empty their wallets. Huh.
Great work by The Narwhal bringing this to light!
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-data-centre-takeover-cabinet-doc/
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Greenview Reeve says council doesn’t have time to “spoonfeed” information to residents. The Greenview media relations team did not acknowledge or reply to my questions.
It seems like there may be a transparency problem. But Paul Palandjian, CEO of O’Leary Digital says his company is committed to Canada’s new data centre principles at the same time as they’re taking new legal action to block a court case brought by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.
And then there’s the 59-page purchase agreement that was so heavily redacted that only five pages could be viewed.
Read the latest on Wonder Valley, the 9 GW proposed data centre planned for northern Alberta, as Minister Nate Glubish heads to Grande Prairie to face the community in the final data centre town hall this evening.
#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #AIDataCentres #WonderValleyAlberta #democracy
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Greenview Reeve says council doesn’t have time to “spoonfeed” information to residents. The Greenview media relations team did not acknowledge or reply to my questions.
It seems like there may be a transparency problem. But Paul Palandjian, CEO of O’Leary Digital says his company is committed to Canada’s new data centre principles at the same time as they’re taking new legal action to block a court case brought by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.
And then there’s the 59-page purchase agreement that was so heavily redacted that only five pages could be viewed.
Read the latest on Wonder Valley, the 9 GW proposed data centre planned for northern Alberta, as Minister Nate Glubish heads to Grande Prairie to face the community in the final data centre town hall this evening.
#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #AIDataCentres #WonderValleyAlberta #democracy
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Greenview Reeve says council doesn’t have time to “spoonfeed” information to residents. The Greenview media relations team did not acknowledge or reply to my questions.
It seems like there may be a transparency problem. But Paul Palandjian, CEO of O’Leary Digital says his company is committed to Canada’s new data centre principles at the same time as they’re taking new legal action to block a court case brought by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.
And then there’s the 59-page purchase agreement that was so heavily redacted that only five pages could be viewed.
Read the latest on Wonder Valley, the 9 GW proposed data centre planned for northern Alberta, as Minister Nate Glubish heads to Grande Prairie to face the community in the final data centre town hall this evening.
#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #AIDataCentres #WonderValleyAlberta #democracy
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Greenview Reeve says council doesn’t have time to “spoonfeed” information to residents. The Greenview media relations team did not acknowledge or reply to my questions.
It seems like there may be a transparency problem. But Paul Palandjian, CEO of O’Leary Digital says his company is committed to Canada’s new data centre principles at the same time as they’re taking new legal action to block a court case brought by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.
And then there’s the 59-page purchase agreement that was so heavily redacted that only five pages could be viewed.
Read the latest on Wonder Valley, the 9 GW proposed data centre planned for northern Alberta, as Minister Nate Glubish heads to Grande Prairie to face the community in the final data centre town hall this evening.
#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #AIDataCentres #WonderValleyAlberta #democracy
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Greenview Reeve says council doesn’t have time to “spoonfeed” information to residents. The Greenview media relations team did not acknowledge or reply to my questions.
It seems like there may be a transparency problem. But Paul Palandjian, CEO of O’Leary Digital says his company is committed to Canada’s new data centre principles at the same time as they’re taking new legal action to block a court case brought by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.
And then there’s the 59-page purchase agreement that was so heavily redacted that only five pages could be viewed.
Read the latest on Wonder Valley, the 9 GW proposed data centre planned for northern Alberta, as Minister Nate Glubish heads to Grande Prairie to face the community in the final data centre town hall this evening.
#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #AIDataCentres #WonderValleyAlberta #democracy
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Kioxia Denies Joint Production Talks With SK hynix Amid AI Boom
Kioxia has denied reports that it is in talks with South Korean memory-chip maker SK hynix about jointly…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SKHynix #AIdatacentres #AImemorydemand #DRAM #high-bandwidthmemory #jointproduction #kioxia #Memorychips #NANDflash #semiconductorindustry #SK #SKhynix
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Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows
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Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows
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Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows
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Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows
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Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows
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https://www.europesays.com/people/210868/ Zuckerberg, Musk push for more AI data centres at G20, warn of power crunch #AIDataCentres #ChapelHill #ElonMusk #G20Presidency #MarkZuckerberg #MichaelKratsios
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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#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."
[...]
"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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#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."
[...]
"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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#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."
[...]
"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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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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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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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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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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Trump declares national emergency over foreign-made equipment in power grid
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 — US President Donald Trump declared a national emergency yesterday over foreign-made equipment inside the country’s…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #NationalGrid #AIdatacentres #DonaldTrump #HuaweiZTE #USarmsembargoes #USelectricgrid #Washington
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/112058/ Trump declares national emergency over foreign-made equipment in power grid #AIDataCentres #DonaldTrump #HuaweiZTE #NationalGrid #USArmsEmbargoes #USElectricGrid #Washington
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https://www.europesays.com/people/202394/ We made a chip and it is fast, Sam Altman says after OpenAI takes on Nvidia with first AI chip #AIChip #AIDataCentres #AIHardware #AIInference #AIModels #AIPerformance #ArtificialIntelligence #Broadcom #CustomAIHardware #JalapeñoAIChip #JalapeñoChip #LLMs #Nvidia #NvidiaReliance #OpenAI #OpenAICustomChip #OpenAIHardware #OpenAINvidia #PowerEfficiency #SamAltman
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https://www.europesays.com/people/202335/ We made a chip and it is fast, Sam Altman says after OpenAI takes on Nvidia with first AI chip #AIChip #AIDataCentres #AIHardware #AIInference #AIModels #AIPerformance #ArtificialIntelligence #Broadcom #CustomAIHardware #JalapeñoAIChip #JalapeñoChip #LLMs #Nvidia #NvidiaReliance #OpenAI #OpenAICustomChip #OpenAIHardware #OpenAINvidia #PowerEfficiency #SamAltman
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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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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