#datacentre — Public Fediverse posts

"There was booing and calls of bullsh*t during a recent government town hall in Sturgeon County. It’s where tech giant Meta is building its largest #DataCentre outside of the U.S. Locals have a variety of concerns; we’re zooming in on the promise that this facility will use less #water. Can the plans for ‘closed-loop’ cooling help fix #AI’s thirstiness? We break down what the tech can do, and what’s really happening at data centres already operating."

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429-what-on-earth/clip/16233159-will-alberta-data-centres-really-curb-water-use

#Alberta #Canada

#Starcloud, a #startup developing #satellites for #AIinference in orbit, raised an additional $250 million, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The funding will support the development of their largest orbital #datacentre #spacecraft, #Starcloud3, and secure launch capacity as the market tightens. Starcloud is collaborating with #Nvidia to develop a space-ready #GPU, aiming to launch it in late 2028. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/starcloud-raises-200-million-for-orbital-data-centers-as-launch-options-dry-up/?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

"Mark Plamondon, the executive director of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association, says the negative reaction by some people who attended two such sessions in Lacombe on Wednesday and in Sturgeon County on Thursday “has been different than what we’ve seen.”..."

Well maybe Mr. Plamondon should get out a little more.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/industry-puzzled-by-apparent-lack-of-public-support-for-ai-data-centres-in-alberta/

#Alberta #AI #Hyperscalar #DataCentre #DataCenter

@n_dimension @maxleibman

What is the #datacentre sham

@maxleibman

The #antiai folks are being played.
Their #aislop rage is being channeled into the #datacentre sham

At best, you're not stopping the datacentre, you are NIMBYING it into poorer neighbourhood.

While #Ai is replacing your jobs.

#organise and #regulateai

How to ████ ██ a Data Center - We're In Hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYmNJGjFnI

#datacenter #datacentre #wereinhell #uspol #resist #climatecrisis #resources #costofliving #noisepollution #bigtech

@action_jay @Cassandra

And prrhaps this might be useful to someone

How to Stop a Data Centre: Tools for Community Resistance
By Commons Librarian, Holly Hammond

#DataCentre #Canada #Resist #Protest

https://commonslibrary.org/how-to-stop-a-data-centre-tools-for-community-resistance/

@action_jay @Cassandra

Although it doesn't show anything about people protesting data centres this is supposed to be an continuously updated list of each one, the resources needed to run them, and a lot more info.

I am sorry recent events left me too tired to research each one and its individual associated community response, but perhaps someone can pick this up and run with it?
#Canada #dataCentre

https://www.aicanadapulse.ca/datacentres

Proposed London datacentre will have the annual carbon footprint equivalent to 27k flights to New York #NoThanks #UKpol #DataCentre #london #fuckAI #climateCrisis #datacenter #survailance

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/proposed-london-datacentre-will-have-annual-carbon-footprint-of-27000-flights-to-new-york. "A 'hyperscale' #datacentre in outer #London would generate more than 1m tonnes of #carbondioxide a year, equivalent to the #carbon #footprint of 27,000 #flights from London to #NewYork, #planning #documents show." Will the authorities in London allow this? Will the #Labour #Government allow this? The answer had better be "NO", or Andy #Burnham is politically dead & buried!

Recent job postings suggest u.s. #AI giant anthropic is looking to significantly increase its #datacentre footprint in #Alberta and perhaps elsewhere in #Canada.

#sovereignty #digitalsovereignty

🇨🇦 Overwhelming number of #Canadians oppose #AI data centres in their communities

#Canada #climate #environment #Alberta #Olds #datacentre

www.theenergymix.com/overwhelming...

Overwhelming Majorities in Can...

YTL, JLand Group Partner For New Gigawatt Data Centre Campus In Johor #artificialintelligence #datacentre #johor #ytl

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402062/ytl-jland-group-data-centre-campus/

Fighting back against #AI #datacentre in #Norwich.

Beautiful hand drawn poster with insects protesting.

‘Save our Marsh Protest’

Saturday 5th September, City Hall, 12-2pm

#DataCentre inquiry by #Tasmanian #Greens to examine 'what, if any,' benefits will come to #Tasmania from rollout.

An expert says Tasmania's "guiding principle" on data centres should be that they ultimately "leave communities measurably better off".

#auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/ai-data-centre-inquiry-tasmanian-greens/107050792

#Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for a new #OpenAI #datacentre in Ohio, supporting 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity with an option for an additional 3.75 gigawatts. The data centre, built and managed by SB Energy, will support 35,000 new construction jobs and 2,500 long-term positions. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-financing-open-ai-data-center-ohio.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

In the 1800s, Manchester textile mills called their workers "hands". In the 2000s, data centres call their workers "hands". Nothing ever shifts under capitalism because the material reality remains the same.

The labour shifted from operating textile machines to switching broken equipment to working ones in the data centre racks. This used to be a solid middle class profession like the pre-industrial weavers had before neoliberal goons destroyed everything.

#DataCenter #DataCentre #Labour

Data centres are taking more of our water than ever during the extreme heat this summer

But while millions of people in the UK face restrictions, data centres can use as much water as they like

Confused? James Hitchings-Hales explains

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BD4WA0tgb_g

#surveillance #datacentre #datacente #ai #ukpol #waterconservation #utilities #water #drought #fuckai #climatecrisis

Unusual interest in Scotland from the Guardian - but then someone there in London has to wake up occasionally.

‘If that motion becomes Scottish government policy, it could pose a serious threat to the UK’s AI strategy. British officials have been pushing datacentre developers to build in Scotland.’ That is what worries the Gruaniad.

Data centres - yes, useful- wasting power, water and land on things for no good reason NO.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/scottish-police-expect-public-opposition-larbert-datacentre

#DataCentre #AI #Scotland #Environment

"Data center proposals keep coming to Pennsylvania. A 41,000-person Facebook group leads the fight against them"

#US #USA #America #Pennsylvania #DataCentre #Technology

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/pennsylvania-data-center-resistance-facebook-group

Nåda! Endnu et brudt løfte om glæderne ved #datacentre. Hvor er jeg overrasket.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/datacentre-mangler-udnytte-overskud-af-varme

> Overskudsvarmen har været pålagt en afgift og et prisloft, der har gjort det til en dårlig forretningsmodel

Nej, dit DC som helhed har en dårlig forretningsmodel, hvis du ikke har råd til at skaffe dig af med varmen på forsvarlig vis.

> Det må ikke ende med at blive til større varmeregning for dem, der har datacentre i kommunen, lyder det fra ministeren

Nej, klart: Forureneren betaler!

Google ne pourra pas pomper dans la Sambre 💧
https://www.lesoir.be/765049/article/2026-08-14/centre-de-donnees-farciennes-google-ne-pourra-pas-pomper-dans-la-sambre

#Google #DataCentre
#Sècheresse #Eau #BienCommun #Climat
"Concernant Farciennes, après un avis positif de l’administration wallonne des voies hydrauliques, le permis modificatif a été octroyé, mais il a fait l’objet d’un recours d’un citoyen." ✌️
#PowerToThePeople

« Il y a les besoins pour la consommation humaine qui priment évidemment, la navigation, les besoins agricoles, le refroidissement de Tihange, … »

American architecture YouTuber Stewart Hicks has posted a thought-provoking video about data centres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JOmHYyQoO4

Stewart's contention is during the industrial revolution, corporations basically built two kinds of industrial buildings.

The first were repurposable buildings. They may have originally housed production lines or warehouses, but were designed in such a way that they could be adapted for different uses.

Many are still in use today as fashionable loft apartments or trendy open-plan offices.

The second type of industrial buildings were designed around a single piece of equipment for a single extractive purpose. Think steel mills, for example.

At the end of their life, the single-use buildings were often abandoned and left to rust.

Hicks' contention is that hyperscale AI data centres are essentially like those industrial revolution era steel mills.

They're large buildings designed for one specific extractive purpose only: Housing racks or server equipment.

It doesn't need to be this way. It's perfectly possible to house a data centre in a repurposable multistorey building. But it's not being done essentially as a cost-saving measure.

But the end result is, at some point in the future, we're likely to find ourselves with 'rustbelts' of abandoned former data centres that can't be used for any other purpose.

Here's a link to the video again if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JOmHYyQoO4

#AI #DataCentre #DataCenter #Gemini #Copilot #ChatGPT #Anthropic #slop #Claude #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #building #buildings #architecture #AIslop #LLM #llmbubble

'Anthropic is rushing to secure local data centre capacity ahead of its $1 trillion-plus sharemarket listing, telling developers it will buy any available capacity that can be delivered by mid-next year as it aims to make Australia its second home for training its AI models'

#publicPolicy #ausPol #datacentre #genAI

https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/anthropic-wants-australian-data-centres-copyright-deal-ahead-of-ipo-20260706-p60cwq

RE: https://scholar.social/@Aepasek/117084434212043726

'As a climate and media researcher, I’ve been following this story for a decade, but it’s recently come to a boil. Across the country, mass grassroots opposition to these developments is surging. Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Vancouver this summer, decrying plans for a publicly subsidized cluster of Telus data centres'

#datacentre #polycrisis #technology #genAI #publicPolicy

Alberta man plans to protest AI data centres as province announces town halls

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/12017059/alberta-ai-data-centre-protest/

Is AI regulation to be a state by state affair in Australia?
“South Australia will hold a royal commission into artificial intelligence and the policy around it, with the state government warning of the technology's potentially destructive impacts as well as acknowledging its upsides.

“Premier Peter Malinauskas said AI, if unchecked, presented a "material risk to the way society operates".

“He said the inquiry was intended to maximise the benefits and minimise unwanted impacts from the growth of AI.”

In another piece of SA AI data centre news a possessive apostrophe is violated and unverifiable claims that a data centre to be established out in the boon docks, but handy to an electricity substation & River Murray pipeline, will create 200 high skill jobs & use hardly any water all of which will be constantly recirculated…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/artificial-intelligence-royal-commission-announced-in-sa/107017502

#SA #royalCommission #AI #dataCentre #substation #water #boldClaims #sceptical

#AMD #Halo2 is pulling 200 tokens per second in your home.

#Opus5 about 55, 150 tokens per second downhill with a wind in its back.

For $10K, you can get a home #AI brain that can run 120Billion #OpenWeight #llm model that does not need a #Datacentre

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/ryzen-ai-halo.html

#Localai

Sturgeon County to be home to $13B Meta data centre
#SturgeonCounty #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada #Meta #DataCentre #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Business #Energy #Environment #Water #Jobs #Politics
https://the-14.com/sturgeon-county-to-be-home-to-13b-meta-data-centre/