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https://www.europesays.com/people/71266/ If Lisa Su Is Right, AMD Could Be as Big as Nvidia #DataCenters #LisaSu #MarketShare #Nvidia #ServerCPUTAM

Hey Elon: put them on Mars!

Turns Out, Nobody Wants a Data Center in Their Backyard
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ai-data-center-gallup-opposition-american/

#USPol #DataCenters

Hey Elon: put them on Mars!

Turns Out, Nobody Wants a Data Center in Their Backyard
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ai-data-center-gallup-opposition-american/

#USPol #DataCenters

💸 Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

｢ The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Former workers and local campaigners told Rest of World that most of the positions are in security and cleaning ｣

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/

#ai #datacenters #bubble

💸 Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

｢ The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Former workers and local campaigners told Rest of World that most of the positions are in security and cleaning ｣

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/

#ai #datacenters #bubble

💸 Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

｢ The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Former workers and local campaigners told Rest of World that most of the positions are in security and cleaning ｣

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/

#ai #datacenters #bubble

💸 Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

｢ The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Former workers and local campaigners told Rest of World that most of the positions are in security and cleaning ｣

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/

#ai #datacenters #bubble

#Chevron Wants a School District #TaxBreak for a #DataCenter Power Plant
#Oil company seeking tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build massive power plant. Energy go to residential customers. Instead, gas plant will be used to power data center whose eventual tenant could be #Microsoft.
Potential tax abatement for project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about #datacenters and electricity costs.
https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-wants-school-district-tax-break-data-center-power-plant-texas/
https://archive.ph/jygur

#Chevron Wants a School District #TaxBreak for a #DataCenter Power Plant
#Oil company seeking tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build massive power plant. Energy go to residential customers. Instead, gas plant will be used to power data center whose eventual tenant could be #Microsoft.
Potential tax abatement for project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about #datacenters and electricity costs.
https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-wants-school-district-tax-break-data-center-power-plant-texas/
https://archive.ph/jygur

#Chevron Wants a School District #TaxBreak for a #DataCenter Power Plant
#Oil company seeking tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build massive power plant. Energy go to residential customers. Instead, gas plant will be used to power data center whose eventual tenant could be #Microsoft.
Potential tax abatement for project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about #datacenters and electricity costs.
https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-wants-school-district-tax-break-data-center-power-plant-texas/
https://archive.ph/jygur

#Chevron Wants a School District #TaxBreak for a #DataCenter Power Plant
#Oil company seeking tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build massive power plant. Energy go to residential customers. Instead, gas plant will be used to power data center whose eventual tenant could be #Microsoft.
Potential tax abatement for project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about #datacenters and electricity costs.
https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-wants-school-district-tax-break-data-center-power-plant-texas/
https://archive.ph/jygur

#Chevron Wants a School District #TaxBreak for a #DataCenter Power Plant
#Oil company seeking tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build massive power plant. Energy go to residential customers. Instead, gas plant will be used to power data center whose eventual tenant could be #Microsoft.
Potential tax abatement for project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about #datacenters and electricity costs.
https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-wants-school-district-tax-break-data-center-power-plant-texas/
https://archive.ph/jygur

Block Club Chicago: Blue Island Data Center Planners Get Booed By Residents. “Blue Island residents said they were concerned about potential noise coming from the center as well as water and electricity usage, and how the center could affect housing in the city. One resident, a recent college graduate, told the council that while studying she took courses focused on the ethics and societal […]

Data center drained 30 million gallons (114 million liters) of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals

Residents had previously been asked to conserve their own water usage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-drained-30-million-002000882.html

#QualityTechnologyServices #datacenters #AI #enshittification #dystopia #water #environment #climate #technology

Data center drained 30 million gallons (114 million liters) of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals

Residents had previously been asked to conserve their own water usage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-drained-30-million-002000882.html

#QualityTechnologyServices #datacenters #AI #enshittification #dystopia #water #environment #climate #technology

Data center drained 30 million gallons (114 million liters) of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals

Residents had previously been asked to conserve their own water usage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-drained-30-million-002000882.html

#QualityTechnologyServices #datacenters #AI #enshittification #dystopia #water #environment #climate #technology

Data center drained 30 million gallons (114 million liters) of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals

Residents had previously been asked to conserve their own water usage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-drained-30-million-002000882.html

#QualityTechnologyServices #datacenters #AI #enshittification #dystopia #water #environment #climate #technology

Data center drained 30 million gallons (114 million liters) of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals

Residents had previously been asked to conserve their own water usage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-drained-30-million-002000882.html

#QualityTechnologyServices #datacenters #AI #enshittification #dystopia #water #environment #climate #technology

What is the footprint of a datacenter on global warming ? on minerals depletion ? on air quality ?

Those are some of the the root questions we need to answer to better grasp the actual footprint of tech infrastructures, including genAI, cloud services, and so on.

Life Cycle Assessment is an important methodology that enables to assess this footprint on multiple environmental criteria.

#datacentre #datacenter #datacenters #climateChange #lca

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/internal-emails-xai-added-19-gas-turbines-to-colos-xcxwbn/

xAI added 19 portable gas turbines at its Southaven Colossus 2 site, lifting the reported total to 46 while a lawsuit and permit dispute remained active.

#xAI #ElonMusk #Southaven #Colossus2 #Grok #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/internal-emails-xai-added-19-gas-turbines-to-colos-xcxwbn/

xAI added 19 portable gas turbines at its Southaven Colossus 2 site, lifting the reported total to 46 while a lawsuit and permit dispute remained active.

#xAI #ElonMusk #Southaven #Colossus2 #Grok #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/internal-emails-xai-added-19-gas-turbines-to-colos-xcxwbn/

xAI added 19 portable gas turbines at its Southaven Colossus 2 site, lifting the reported total to 46 while a lawsuit and permit dispute remained active.

#xAI #ElonMusk #Southaven #Colossus2 #Grok #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/internal-emails-xai-added-19-gas-turbines-to-colos-xcxwbn/

xAI added 19 portable gas turbines at its Southaven Colossus 2 site, lifting the reported total to 46 while a lawsuit and permit dispute remained active.

#xAI #ElonMusk #Southaven #Colossus2 #Grok #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/internal-emails-xai-added-19-gas-turbines-to-colos-xcxwbn/

xAI added 19 portable gas turbines at its Southaven Colossus 2 site, lifting the reported total to 46 while a lawsuit and permit dispute remained active.

#xAI #ElonMusk #Southaven #Colossus2 #Grok #AIInfrastructure #AICompute #DataCenters

Was soll so ein Rechenzentrum schon ein Problem sein? Bis den Leuten, wie in Georgia, gesagt wird diese müssen Wasser sparen und Bewässerung reduzieren, während das benachbarte Data Center mehrere Millionen von Litern an Trinkwasser aus der Erde pumpt um die Slop-Mashines zu kühlen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988?cid=apn

#umwelt #trinkwasser #datacenters #slop

Was soll so ein Rechenzentrum schon ein Problem sein? Bis den Leuten, wie in Georgia, gesagt wird diese müssen Wasser sparen und Bewässerung reduzieren, während das benachbarte Data Center mehrere Millionen von Litern an Trinkwasser aus der Erde pumpt um die Slop-Mashines zu kühlen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988?cid=apn

#umwelt #trinkwasser #datacenters #slop

Was soll so ein Rechenzentrum schon ein Problem sein? Bis den Leuten, wie in Georgia, gesagt wird diese müssen Wasser sparen und Bewässerung reduzieren, während das benachbarte Data Center mehrere Millionen von Litern an Trinkwasser aus der Erde pumpt um die Slop-Mashines zu kühlen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988?cid=apn

#umwelt #trinkwasser #datacenters #slop

Was soll so ein Rechenzentrum schon ein Problem sein? Bis den Leuten, wie in Georgia, gesagt wird diese müssen Wasser sparen und Bewässerung reduzieren, während das benachbarte Data Center mehrere Millionen von Litern an Trinkwasser aus der Erde pumpt um die Slop-Mashines zu kühlen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988?cid=apn

#umwelt #trinkwasser #datacenters #slop

Was soll so ein Rechenzentrum schon ein Problem sein? Bis den Leuten, wie in Georgia, gesagt wird diese müssen Wasser sparen und Bewässerung reduzieren, während das benachbarte Data Center mehrere Millionen von Litern an Trinkwasser aus der Erde pumpt um die Slop-Mashines zu kühlen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988?cid=apn

#umwelt #trinkwasser #datacenters #slop

"xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED.

The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean Air Act by operating more than two dozen natural gas turbines at the site without appropriate air permits.
Emails between an official in the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and a representative from Trinity Consultants, obtained via a public records request by the Southern Environmental Law Center and shared with WIRED, show that xAI installed 19 portable gas turbines on its site in Southaven between late March and early May. That brings the total to 46 turbines operating at the site.
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A spreadsheet included in the email to MDEQ, has a column labeled “Total Power Output” that appears to list the megawatt capacity of each turbine on the site. xAI appears to have added more than 500 megawatts of natural gas turbines since mid-March."

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-adds-19-new-gas-turbines-despite-ongoing-lawsuit/

#AI #GenerativeAI #xAI #USA #Mississipi #AirPollution #DataCenters

What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/what-it-will-take-to-make-ai-sustainable/

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash

#Stratos #AI #datacenters #environment #power #water #droughts #technology

https://www.europesays.com/ie/482831/ Citi Sees India’s Power Demand Rising 5%-6% Annually Amid Energy Buildout #CitiResearch #CoalPower #DataCenters #Éire #ElectricityDemand #EnergyInvestment #Environment #IE #IndiaPowerSector #Ireland #PowerGrid #RenewableEnergy #Science #SolarEnergy #WindPower

Wall Street Is Sleeping on This AI Stock, and That’s Your Opportunity This Year

Key Points ASML holds a dominant competitive position in supplying critical manufacturing equipment to the semiconductor industry. Over…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #ASML #ChristopheFouquet #datacenters #earningsgrowth #revenuegrowth #SupplyChain
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/11206/

Just when #canada got the moral high ground over the #usa, along comes #kevinoleary to remind us that literally every country is rotten because none have codified into law the yeeting of #billionaires into active, frothy volcanoes.

#ai #datacenters #eattherich

Gizmodo: Georgia Data Center Secretly Guzzled 30 Million Gallons of Water Before Paying a Dime. “A Quality Technology Services (QTS) data center campus located about 20 miles south of Atlanta had been draining the Fayette County water supply for months without the utility’s knowledge, Politico reported Friday. By the time officials found the two industrial-scale water hookups feeding the […]

https://www.europesays.com/uk/957172/ Citi Sees India’s Power Demand Rising 5%-6% Annually Amid Energy Buildout #CitiResearch #CoalPower #DataCenters #ElectricityDemand #EnergyInvestment #Environment #IndiaPowerSector #PowerGrid #RenewableEnergy #Science #SolarEnergy #UK #UnitedKingdom #WindPower

@gerrymcgovern I could cry when I see the accelerating #climateCrisis and more and more #drinkwater shortages while the US are on a race to destroy the world.

In Germany, they just stopped the plans of an US company building a big data center, because of the planned gas energy "support". May such protests grow globally!

#datacenters #energycrisis #carbonfootprint

https://www.europesays.com/africa/232585/ Kenya Delays $1B Microsoft-G42 Data Center Over Power Constraints #Africa #AIInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence(AI) #BigTech #cloud #CloudComputing #CloudInfrastructure #DataCenterInvestment #DataCenters #EnergyConsumption #G42 #Government #Kenya #Microsoft #MicrosoftAzure #Partnerships…)

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/13/kenyas-power-limits-stall-1b-microsoft-g42-data-center-xcxwbn/

Kenya's planned Microsoft-G42 data center project has stalled after officials concluded the country could not power the facility without straining the grid.

#AI #AIInfrastructure #Microsoft #DataCenters #CloudInfrastructure #MicrosoftAzure #Kenya

Europe’s Photonics Push Runs Through Spain- EE Times

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#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #AIinfrastructure #Co-PackagedOptics #datacenters #EUchipsact #ICs #Optics&Photonics #Semiconductors #SovereignAI #Startups
https://www.europesays.com/spain/22533/

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Citigroup forecasts copper prices will reach $15,000 per ton by year-end, representing 7% upside, driven by AI data center demand and energy transition needs, though strategist warns U.S. tariffs could temporarily push prices down to $12,000 per ton.
#YonhapInfomax #CopperPrices #Citigroup #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #EnergyTransition #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=120206

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/microsoft-opens-48-state-grid-dataset-for-power-research-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a 48-state U.S. grid dataset for power research, giving teams a shared model to test congestion, siting and transmission upgrades.

#MicrosoftResearch #Microsoft #Energy #DataCenters #DataScience #ITInfrastructure #CriticalInfrastructure

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/microsoft-opens-48-state-grid-dataset-for-power-research-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a 48-state U.S. grid dataset for power research, giving teams a shared model to test congestion, siting and transmission upgrades.

#MicrosoftResearch #Microsoft #Energy #DataCenters #DataScience #ITInfrastructure #CriticalInfrastructure

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/microsoft-opens-48-state-grid-dataset-for-power-research-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a 48-state U.S. grid dataset for power research, giving teams a shared model to test congestion, siting and transmission upgrades.

#MicrosoftResearch #Microsoft #Energy #DataCenters #DataScience #ITInfrastructure #CriticalInfrastructure

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/microsoft-opens-48-state-grid-dataset-for-power-research-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a 48-state U.S. grid dataset for power research, giving teams a shared model to test congestion, siting and transmission upgrades.

#MicrosoftResearch #Microsoft #Energy #DataCenters #DataScience #ITInfrastructure #CriticalInfrastructure

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/microsoft-opens-48-state-grid-dataset-for-power-research-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a 48-state U.S. grid dataset for power research, giving teams a shared model to test congestion, siting and transmission upgrades.

#MicrosoftResearch #Microsoft #Energy #DataCenters #DataScience #ITInfrastructure #CriticalInfrastructure

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/12/ai-data-centers-target-rural-areas-to-bypass-city-xcxwbn/

AI data center developers may be shifting projects into rural or unincorporated areas to avoid city approvals, rezoning fights, and land-use scrutiny.

#AI #AIDataCenters #DataCenters #AIInfrastructure

The "AI" phenomenon and craze has been discussed endlessly, including the vast computational and energy requirements of dedicated #datacenters

There is an important split betwen model building and inference of statistical models (and hence also #llm ) which means there is not one but two problems to solve.

The first one is *highly* non-trivial. It bumps against #mooreslaw and requires #supercomputing networking tricks. The datacenter must operate as one giant machine

https://openai.com/index/mrc-supercomputer-networking/