#energyconsumption — Public Fediverse posts
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Developers eye #NativeNations, tribal communities for new #Datacenter projects
by Madyson Fitzgerald, 9/12/2026
"Officials in #PageAZ, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center.
"The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s #HorseshoeBend — one of the most visited natural landmarks in the #GlenCanyon National Recreation Area — to #HuntleyLLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center.
"Residents have been pushing back and launched a petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.
"About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the #LeChee Chapter of the #NavajoNation, located in the northwest corner of the Navajo Reservation. "
#NoDatacenters #NativeAmericanNews #Dine #Dineh #EnvironmentalRacism #Hyperscale #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #Arizona
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Developers eye #NativeNations, tribal communities for new #Datacenter projects
by Madyson Fitzgerald, 9/12/2026
"Officials in #PageAZ, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center.
"The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s #HorseshoeBend — one of the most visited natural landmarks in the #GlenCanyon National Recreation Area — to #HuntleyLLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center.
"Residents have been pushing back and launched a petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.
"About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the #LeChee Chapter of the #NavajoNation, located in the northwest corner of the Navajo Reservation. "
#NoDatacenters #NativeAmericanNews #Dine #Dineh #EnvironmentalRacism #Hyperscale #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #Arizona
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Developers eye #NativeNations, tribal communities for new #Datacenter projects
by Madyson Fitzgerald, 9/12/2026
"Officials in #PageAZ, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center.
"The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s #HorseshoeBend — one of the most visited natural landmarks in the #GlenCanyon National Recreation Area — to #HuntleyLLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center.
"Residents have been pushing back and launched a petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.
"About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the #LeChee Chapter of the #NavajoNation, located in the northwest corner of the Navajo Reservation. "
#NoDatacenters #NativeAmericanNews #Dine #Dineh #EnvironmentalRacism #Hyperscale #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #Arizona
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Developers eye #NativeNations, tribal communities for new #Datacenter projects
by Madyson Fitzgerald, 9/12/2026
"Officials in #PageAZ, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center.
"The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s #HorseshoeBend — one of the most visited natural landmarks in the #GlenCanyon National Recreation Area — to #HuntleyLLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center.
"Residents have been pushing back and launched a petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.
"About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the #LeChee Chapter of the #NavajoNation, located in the northwest corner of the Navajo Reservation. "
#NoDatacenters #NativeAmericanNews #Dine #Dineh #EnvironmentalRacism #Hyperscale #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #Arizona
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Developers eye #NativeNations, tribal communities for new #Datacenter projects
by Madyson Fitzgerald, 9/12/2026
"Officials in #PageAZ, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center.
"The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away from the Colorado River’s #HorseshoeBend — one of the most visited natural landmarks in the #GlenCanyon National Recreation Area — to #HuntleyLLC for $7 million specifies that the company intends to build a 1 gigawatt data center.
"Residents have been pushing back and launched a petition earlier this year to stop the planned data center from being built.
"About 5 miles south of the city, a group of tribal leaders began to take notice. The proposed data center borders the #LeChee Chapter of the #NavajoNation, located in the northwest corner of the Navajo Reservation. "
#NoDatacenters #NativeAmericanNews #Dine #Dineh #EnvironmentalRacism #Hyperscale #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #Arizona
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#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott on #AIDataCenter Backlash: 'They Dug Their Own Grave'
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell, August 23, 2026
"#NewYork Gov. #KathyHochul (D) and #Kentucky Gov. #AndyBeshear (D) have pushed back against the expansion of #AIDataCenters in their respective states. But with the increasing backlash from communities and individuals toward new #datacenter construction and expansion, even governors that have embraced the #AIRevolution, like #Pennsylvania's #JoshShapiro (D), are now moderating and talking about scaling back.
"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is one governor whose state has embraced the data center expansion. In November 2025, Abbott declared that Texas is the 'epicenter of AI development' in his announcement of #Google building three data center campuses to the tune of $40 million dollars.
"Fast forward to August of 2026, and Abbott acknowledges that much of the community resistance to the construction of new and existing data centers is the fault of the AI companies."
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"Abbott is not wrong. According to a report from #DataCenterWatch, 64 billion in data center projects have been blocked or delayed in #Arizona, #Utah, #Missouri, #Oregon, and #California, to name a few. Even formerly friendly #Virginia is pushing back. #CommunityOpposition surrounds the lack of information provided and the lack of accountability taken towards the citizens who will be most affected.
"Water and power concerns loom large. Many of the newer development concepts, like entrepreneur #KevinOLeary 's 9 megawatt #StratosProject in #Utah, will have their own self-sustaining water and power systems. However, this did not prevent the backlash by #environmentalists and local activists to shut the Stratos Project down, and Utah state lawmakers ultimately backpedaled from their original approval and requested O'Leary cut the project's 400,000-acre footprint down to 10,000, about 75 percent. "
#AISucks #AIDataCenters #AIResistance #USPol #WorldPol #Datacenters #Datacentres #AIDatacentres #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #LandIsLife #EnergyConsumption
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The #AI boom is gobbling up power faster than ever
By Hannah Beckler, June 7, 2026
Excerpt: "The data center boom is accelerating.
"A Business Insider analysis of US data center permits reveals a staggering escalation in data center power use. Data centers across the US are growing in number and in size. If all data centers permitted through 2025 come online, they will use between 224.3 terawatt-hours and 358.8 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, an increase of 50% over the previous year across the range, Business Insider's analysis found.
"At the midpoint, that's more than all the #electricity used by any one US state in 2024, except Texas.
"The vast majority of this power use is driven by #hyperscale data centers, mammoth facilities that use 40 megawatts or more each, Business Insider estimates.
"#TechGiants have an insatiable appetite for more computing power to fund their AI ambitions. In 2025, permits were issued for 176 new data centers across 34 states — the most new permits in one year since the first was issued in 1976, Business Insider found. Many of them are mammoth facilities destined for rural areas — enormous complexes blanketing #prairies, #GreenSpaces, and #farmland.
"#AmazonCorp's planned 14-building data center complex in #RidgelandMS, would transform nearly 800 acres of rural #woodland. In the village of #MountPleasantWI, Microsoft's nine data center buildings would command a collective footprint of over 5.2 million square feet built on a property nearly the size of New York City's Central Park, according to planning documents. And just outside #EagleMountainOT, #QTS — one of the nation's biggest data center operators — is building one that is expected to demand between 1.9 and 3 terawatt-hours a year once fully online, according to Business Insider's estimate. On average, that's the same amount of electricity used by 227,000 US homes.
"The race by tech companies to reach ever-greater AI ambitions has sparked a sweeping backlash from local residents and state and local officials wary of #Datacenter impacts on the #environment, economy, and #communities. And development-friendly lawmakers could face a reckoning in this year's #midterms, in which data centers are emerging as a key issue for many voters."
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ai-data-center-power-electricity-use-consumption-2026-6
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/hJXeS#NoDatacenters #AIBoom #EnergyConsumption #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #USPol #USMidTerms #Elections2026 #Datacentres #DatacenterMoratoriums #BigData #BigTech
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