#data-centers — Public Fediverse posts
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You can offset carbon on a spreadsheet. Yet you can't offset thermodynamics in the real world.
Big tech is bragging about "water-efficient" AI data centers while intentionally omitting the power plant. Read this article.
In the US, generating the electricity to run these clusters uses roughly 12x more water than the data centers use on-site.
Buying "water credits" in Michigan does not change the physical reality that you are boiling off the local municipal water supply in a desert area to dissipate the thermal load of an LLM.
Kinda sus to call it an engineering breakthrough. Looks like thermodynamic gerrymandering to me.
#infrastructure #greenwashing #technology #genai #noai #climatechange #datacenters #sysadmin
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You can offset carbon on a spreadsheet. Yet you can't offset thermodynamics in the real world.
Big tech is bragging about "water-efficient" AI data centers while intentionally omitting the power plant. Read this article.
In the US, generating the electricity to run these clusters uses roughly 12x more water than the data centers use on-site.
Buying "water credits" in Michigan does not change the physical reality that you are boiling off the local municipal water supply in a desert area to dissipate the thermal load of an LLM.
Kinda sus to call it an engineering breakthrough. Looks like thermodynamic gerrymandering to me.
#infrastructure #greenwashing #technology #genai #noai #climatechange #datacenters #sysadmin
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Politico: Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That’s now stalled.. “The company announced it was stopping work on the water recycling plant in April, a month after its CEO touted it in a meeting with President Donald Trump. Now, Memphis residents are worried about their drinking water in an episode legal experts and scientists say is indicative of a broader pitfall of the data […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/politico-musk-promised-his-data-center-would-reuse-water-thats-now-stalled/ -
Politico: Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That’s now stalled.. “The company announced it was stopping work on the water recycling plant in April, a month after its CEO touted it in a meeting with President Donald Trump. Now, Memphis residents are worried about their drinking water in an episode legal experts and scientists say is indicative of a broader pitfall of the data […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/politico-musk-promised-his-data-center-would-reuse-water-thats-now-stalled/ -
Por que o uso de energia renovável não anula o impacto negativo dos data centers e da IA.
- bsintcpt
https://www.intercept.com.br/2026/07/09/por-que-energia-renovavel-nao-anula-impacto-negativo-data-centers-ia/
#MeioAmbiente #Tecnologia #Datacenters #Energiarenovvel #Intelignciaartificial #Minerao -
Por que o uso de energia renovável não anula o impacto negativo dos data centers e da IA.
- bsintcpt
https://www.intercept.com.br/2026/07/09/por-que-energia-renovavel-nao-anula-impacto-negativo-data-centers-ia/
#MeioAmbiente #Tecnologia #Datacenters #Energiarenovvel #Intelignciaartificial #Minerao -
Sólo en la peor de las distopías climáticas se podría desarrollar este personaje tan maligno:
- Aprobar decenas de centrales de generación de gas y petroleo en pocas semanas ☹️
- Veto total a la energía eólica (y no menciona la solar) 😱
- Doblar la generación de electricidad de EE.UU. en pocos años sólo para satisfacer a los oligarcas tecnológicos 😮💨https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072026/trump-wants-to-fast-track-ai/
Vía @niryk
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Sólo en la peor de las distopías climáticas se podría desarrollar este personaje tan maligno:
- Aprobar decenas de centrales de generación de gas y petroleo en pocas semanas ☹️
- Veto total a la energía eólica (y no menciona la solar) 😱
- Doblar la generación de electricidad de EE.UU. en pocos años sólo para satisfacer a los oligarcas tecnológicos 😮💨https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072026/trump-wants-to-fast-track-ai/
Vía @niryk
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You can draw a thread line from historical #colonization to #capitalist #exploitation today
It's quite terrifying to see it all kaleidoscope together into one news item
Conceptual allegory as horrible reality
" #BigTech Is Now Targeting #NativeAmerican Land for Massive #DataCenters"
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You can draw a thread line from historical #colonization to #capitalist #exploitation today
It's quite terrifying to see it all kaleidoscope together into one news item
Conceptual allegory as horrible reality
" #BigTech Is Now Targeting #NativeAmerican Land for Massive #DataCenters"
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/09/metas-reported-ai-cloud-plan-tests-ai-spending-returns-xcxwbn/
Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business that lets outside developers rent AI compute and access models hosted on its infrastructure.
#AI #MetaCompute #MetaInc #AICloudMarket #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters #EnterpriseAI
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/09/metas-reported-ai-cloud-plan-tests-ai-spending-returns-xcxwbn/
Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business that lets outside developers rent AI compute and access models hosted on its infrastructure.
#AI #MetaCompute #MetaInc #AICloudMarket #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters #EnterpriseAI
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/09/terawulf-signs-anthropic-data-center-lease-in-ai-pivot-xcxwbn/
Anthropic’s $19B TeraWulf lease marks a major AI infrastructure bet, shifting former bitcoin-mining assets toward long-term data center revenue.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #TeraWulf #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/09/terawulf-signs-anthropic-data-center-lease-in-ai-pivot-xcxwbn/
Anthropic’s $19B TeraWulf lease marks a major AI infrastructure bet, shifting former bitcoin-mining assets toward long-term data center revenue.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #TeraWulf #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters
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The debt taken out to fund the data center boom has already been repackaged to financial SPV’s and sold to 401k retirement funds as bonds.
If the power, water, and usage to these plants fails to materialise, which physics says it will, those bonds will lose value.
The tech bros already outsourced their losses to US retiree’s pensions.
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The debt taken out to fund the data center boom has already been repackaged to financial SPV’s and sold to 401k retirement funds as bonds.
If the power, water, and usage to these plants fails to materialise, which physics says it will, those bonds will lose value.
The tech bros already outsourced their losses to US retiree’s pensions.
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Meta Platforms will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company expands its infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/09/tech/meta-data-center-canada/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #markzuckerberg #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialmedia #datacenters #canada
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Meta Platforms will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company expands its infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/09/tech/meta-data-center-canada/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #markzuckerberg #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialmedia #datacenters #canada
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Residents, environmental advocates and community members of NEW CARLISLE, #Indiana testified against #Amazon's request to permanently impact acres of #wetlands for an eco destroying data center site, arguing the company has previously violated state environmental regulations.
https://www.abc57.com/news/public-voices-concerns-as-amazon-seeks-permit-to-impact-wetlands-in-new-carlisle #BezosBiz #dataCenters
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Greenvoice
Non au projet de DataCenter de Fouju (77) ! Pétition
https://mcinformactions.net/non-au-projet-de-datacenter-de-fouju-77-petition.html?lang=fr
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Greenvoice
Non au projet de DataCenter de Fouju (77) ! Pétition
https://mcinformactions.net/non-au-projet-de-datacenter-de-fouju-77-petition.html?lang=fr
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#Uber drivers in #Atlanta report #earnings slashed in half due to #Al vehicles ~
They:
• Feel: Human workers are intentionally sidelined by major companies
• Argue: Algorithms are being maximized for corporate efficiency at the expense of human #labor
• Feel: Automation is a threat to their livelihood
• Protest: Rapid expansion of driverless vehicles, #automation, Al & unregulated #DataCenters
• Will: Rally at Historic Fourth Ward Park in Atlanta tomorrow
#USA
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/uber-drivers-atlanta-report-earnings-slashed-half-due-ai-vehicles -
#Uber drivers in #Atlanta report #earnings slashed in half due to #Al vehicles ~
They:
• Feel: Human workers are intentionally sidelined by major companies
• Argue: Algorithms are being maximized for corporate efficiency at the expense of human #labor
• Feel: Automation is a threat to their livelihood
• Protest: Rapid expansion of driverless vehicles, #automation, Al & unregulated #DataCenters
• Will: Rally at Historic Fourth Ward Park in Atlanta tomorrow
#USA
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/uber-drivers-atlanta-report-earnings-slashed-half-due-ai-vehicles -
We Mapped Rural #DataCenter Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found
Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.
by Julia Tilton and Sarah Alexander Melotte June 29, 2026
Excerpt: "Though the majority of in-progress #datacenters are in metropolitan areas, our reporting and data analysis show that large data centers, characteristic of the current boom, represent outsized investments in rural areas. Smaller populations often mean smaller tax bases and fewer government officials, leaving rural communities with fewer resources to negotiate deals with developers or weather the tax revenue fallout after facility closures.
The Geography of the Data Center Boom
"The following map shows the number of data centers in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, or rural, counties. As of June 2026, approximately 30 of the 529 data centers currently in operation are located in rural counties, representing about 6% of operating data centers. At the time of this analysis, 16 rural data centers were either recently approved or currently under construction, representing about 12% of all in-progress projects.
"The Daily Yonder uses a county-level definition of rural derived from the Office of Management and Budget (#OMB). All counties outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) are classified as rural for the purposes of this analysis.
Information on the locations of data centers comes from #FracTrackerAlliance, an organization providing the public with interactive tools to understand #oil, #gas, #petrochemical, and data center development across the country.
"While there are many other datasets out there tracking data center development, few of them are publicly accessible, making a complete analysis difficult. We chose #FracTracker because of the organization’s methods for obtaining data and the monthly frequency with which it updates the database. We saw that frequency as a key metric for tracking this fast-evolving issue. FracTracker obtains information from crowd sourcing, media announcements, partner datasets, and public records. While the organization is primarily focused on proposed data centers, it is slowly adding existing data centers to the database.
"That means that the data used in this analysis is preliminary. Because it is a work in progress, FracTracker encourages readers to share new and updated information about data centers in their own communities via a submission form."
#USDatacenterMap #BigOilAndGas #BigData #DatacenterResistance #USPol #RuralAreas #AISucks
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We Mapped Rural #DataCenter Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found
Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.
by Julia Tilton and Sarah Alexander Melotte June 29, 2026
Excerpt: "Though the majority of in-progress #datacenters are in metropolitan areas, our reporting and data analysis show that large data centers, characteristic of the current boom, represent outsized investments in rural areas. Smaller populations often mean smaller tax bases and fewer government officials, leaving rural communities with fewer resources to negotiate deals with developers or weather the tax revenue fallout after facility closures.
The Geography of the Data Center Boom
"The following map shows the number of data centers in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, or rural, counties. As of June 2026, approximately 30 of the 529 data centers currently in operation are located in rural counties, representing about 6% of operating data centers. At the time of this analysis, 16 rural data centers were either recently approved or currently under construction, representing about 12% of all in-progress projects.
"The Daily Yonder uses a county-level definition of rural derived from the Office of Management and Budget (#OMB). All counties outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) are classified as rural for the purposes of this analysis.
Information on the locations of data centers comes from #FracTrackerAlliance, an organization providing the public with interactive tools to understand #oil, #gas, #petrochemical, and data center development across the country.
"While there are many other datasets out there tracking data center development, few of them are publicly accessible, making a complete analysis difficult. We chose #FracTracker because of the organization’s methods for obtaining data and the monthly frequency with which it updates the database. We saw that frequency as a key metric for tracking this fast-evolving issue. FracTracker obtains information from crowd sourcing, media announcements, partner datasets, and public records. While the organization is primarily focused on proposed data centers, it is slowly adding existing data centers to the database.
"That means that the data used in this analysis is preliminary. Because it is a work in progress, FracTracker encourages readers to share new and updated information about data centers in their own communities via a submission form."
#USDatacenterMap #BigOilAndGas #BigData #DatacenterResistance #USPol #RuralAreas #AISucks
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Empresa gaúcha recebe R$ 10,18 milhões do BNDES para fabricar data centers modulares
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Supongo que ahora harán otra película sobre Erin Brockovich, narrando su activismo contra los #DataCenters. A menos que los fondos de inversión dueños de los #DataCenters sean también los dueños de las plataformas distribuidoras de cine, entonces NO.
Y es una pena, me encantaría ver a Julia Roberts otra vez en ese personaje, que le dio el Oscar. Que parece que está desaparecida de la industria (quizá pq tiene suficientes millones para hacer producción y no dar la cara).
https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/data-centers-map-ai-boom-erin-brockovich-reporting-website/91357251 -
Supongo que ahora harán otra película sobre Erin Brockovich, narrando su activismo contra los #DataCenters. A menos que los fondos de inversión dueños de los #DataCenters sean también los dueños de las plataformas distribuidoras de cine, entonces NO.
Y es una pena, me encantaría ver a Julia Roberts otra vez en ese personaje, que le dio el Oscar. Que parece que está desaparecida de la industria (quizá pq tiene suficientes millones para hacer producción y no dar la cara).
https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/data-centers-map-ai-boom-erin-brockovich-reporting-website/91357251 -
Newsweek: Data Centers Spark Dozens of Recall Petitions Against Local Officials https://www.newsweek.com/data-centers-spark-dozens-of-recall-petitions-against-local-officials-12170541 @Newsweekdotcom
Kiplinger: Virginia Approves First-of-Its-Kind Data Center Power Consumption Tax https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/virginia-approves-first-data-center-power-tax
Two days ago:
"A recent Gallup poll found that 71% of voters, including 75% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans, don’t want a data center built in their area."
The Week: The data center backlash https://theweek.com/tech/data-center-backlash
Last week:
Seeking Alpha: Report: Blackstone's QTS abandons data center plan in Virginia in latest blow to 'Digital Gateway' https://seekingalpha.com/news/4609758-blackstones-qts-abandons-data-center-plan-in-virginia-in-latest-blow-to-digital-gateway---report #datacenters
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Newsweek: Data Centers Spark Dozens of Recall Petitions Against Local Officials https://www.newsweek.com/data-centers-spark-dozens-of-recall-petitions-against-local-officials-12170541 @Newsweekdotcom
Kiplinger: Virginia Approves First-of-Its-Kind Data Center Power Consumption Tax https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/virginia-approves-first-data-center-power-tax
Two days ago:
"A recent Gallup poll found that 71% of voters, including 75% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans, don’t want a data center built in their area."
The Week: The data center backlash https://theweek.com/tech/data-center-backlash
Last week:
Seeking Alpha: Report: Blackstone's QTS abandons data center plan in Virginia in latest blow to 'Digital Gateway' https://seekingalpha.com/news/4609758-blackstones-qts-abandons-data-center-plan-in-virginia-in-latest-blow-to-digital-gateway---report #datacenters
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#YellowstoneCounty #Montana
Tomorrow, July 9th at 9 am, attend Yellowstone County commission meeting in Boardroom (Room 309) or
Conference Room (Room 308), 3rd floor, John V Ostlund Memorial Building, 2825 3rd Ave N, downtown Billings
Stand up for citizens' participation in #AI #DataCenters #MTPol -
#YellowstoneCounty #Montana
Tomorrow, July 9th at 9 am, attend Yellowstone County commission meeting in Boardroom (Room 309) or
Conference Room (Room 308), 3rd floor, John V Ostlund Memorial Building, 2825 3rd Ave N, downtown Billings
Stand up for citizens' participation in #AI #DataCenters #MTPol -
Trump said Big Tech leaders racing to develop artificial intelligence have told him they need access to double the country’s existing energy capacity in order to advance technologies and outpace foreign competitors
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072026/trump-wants-to-fast-track-ai/
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Trump said Big Tech leaders racing to develop artificial intelligence have told him they need access to double the country’s existing energy capacity in order to advance technologies and outpace foreign competitors
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072026/trump-wants-to-fast-track-ai/
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Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/meta-datacenter-ai-wyoming-water #Datacenters #Meta #UsNews #Environment #Water #Pollution #AiArtificialIntelligence #Wyoming
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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share
