#energyconsumption — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #energyconsumption, aggregated by home.social.
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LG launches WallFit air purifier for Singapore homes
LG Electronics has launched the WallFit air purifier in Singapore for households in the city-state. The model is…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #LGElectronics #ArtificialIntelligence(AI) #Consumertech #energyconsumption #energy-efficient #InternetofThings(IoT) #LG #LGElectronics(LG) #singapore #smarthome #smartphones #SoutheastAsia #Urbanization
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#Massachusetts #datacenters need approval before getting a permit following new executive order
by Amal Elhelw, Tue, September 8, 2026
"Gov. #MauraHealey is now putting Massachusetts among a growing number of states taking a closer look at how data centers are built and who gets a say in where they go.
"For years, Massachusetts has promoted itself as a place for the technology industry to grow, including data centers powering the #AIBoom.
"As those projects have gotten bigger, so have the concerns about their impact on #electricity costs, the #environment, and local communities.
"Back in February, Gov. Healey said data centers need to power themselves, pay for it, 'and do it in a way that doesn't harm residents.'
"More than six months later, Healey said she's putting local communities in control.
"On Tuesday, she signed an executive order requiring local approval for new data center infrastructure.
" 'Unless a community says yes to a data center, we're saying no,' Healey said.
"The move comes after the Governor first paused new applications for the state's data center sales tax exemption in June, saying stronger protections were needed.
"That tax break was created by a law Healey signed in 2024, giving qualified data centers a potential 20-year sales tax exemption.
"On Tuesday, Healey addressed that, saying she signed that package but did not include the tax exemption herself.
" 'As I've seen things, I just didn't think that it was right for that sales tax exemption to apply in the midst of what we're dealing with right now, which is a lot of concern across communities in Massachusetts and this country about the impact data centers are having or could have,' Gov. Healey said.
"Tuesday's executive order also requires developers to prove that they're not going to harm the environments or communities where they want to build. They also have to provide their own clean energy on day one, and if they can't, they have to pay ratepayers for the energy they consume until their own supply is in place.
"Republican candidate for Governor, Mike Minogue agrees that Massachusetts is in an energy crisis.
" 'I would always let a local community have input, but in reality, today, we're seeing more override votes than ever before just for operations,' Minogue said. "What I want to do is give more money back to the towns and cities if they will reduce the stretch codes, which destroys the opportunities for many builders and developers.'
"A proposed data center in #WestfieldMA has yet to seek permits from state agencies. Should the project come to the state, the developer would need to present a Community Benefits Agreement and its plans to meet the state's water and energy expectations.
"The state currently has about 50 data centers, meaning Tuesday's announcement could help determine how many more Massachusetts is willing to take on."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mass-data-centers-approval-getting-205657908.html#USPol #MassachusettsPol #NoDatacenters #AIDatacenters #NoisePollution #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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Erin Brockovich Asks Americans For Help As She Launches Data Center Map
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https://www.newsweek.com/erin-brockovich-asks-americans-for-help-as-she-launches-data-center-map-11989813 <-- shared media article
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https://brockovichdatacenter.com/ <-- shared Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting web site
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https://youtu.be/fp5ozQraKf4?si=7qu3g77iVVD3GGFJ <-- shared media video, @cbs Sunday Morning, “Nationwide boom in AI data centers stirs resistance”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #nation #AI #datacenters #waterresources #utilities #energyconsumption #water #hydrology #hydrography #watermanagement #community #humanimpacts #costs #economics #ewaste #noise #risk #hazard #electricity #localcommunities #taxbreaks #cooling #energy #highenergyusage #infrastructure #landuse #environment #ecology #public #skepticism #environmentalimpact #scalability #growth #Virginia #Utah #Texas #Ohio #Arizona #Georgia
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AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the #Internet's #HyperConsumption Era
Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local #PowerGrids and mass water evaporation.by Reece Rogers
July 11, 2024"In addition to high levels of #energy usage, the data centers that train and operate generative AI models consume millions of gallons of #water.
"The water that is available for people to use is very limited. It's just the fresh surface water and #groundwater. Those data centers, they're just evaporating water into the air,' says Shaolei Ren, a responsible AI researcher at UC Riverside and coauthor of 'Making AI Less ‘Thirsty’: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models.'
"While it may appear similar at first, the impact on the local #environment from companies operating giant data centers is not comparable to the impact from residents who may take multiple bubble baths a week or leave the faucet running while they brush their teeth. 'They're different from normal, residential users. When we get the water from the utility, and then we discharge the water back to the sewage immediately, we are just withdrawing water—we're not consuming water,' Ren says. 'A data center takes the water from this utility, and they evaporate the water into the sky, into the atmosphere.' He says the water consumed by data centers may not return to the earth’s surface until a year later.
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"Around the world, the server farms that train and operate AI models may compete with local residents and businesses for power—possibly leading to #blackouts during peak times."
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-energy-demands-water-impact-internet-hyper-consumption-era/
#WaterIsLife #NoNewNukes #RethinkNotRestart #Cryptocurrency #AI #Energy #ArtificialIntelligence #PowerGrids #DataCenters #DigitalLifestyle #Bitcoin #EnergyConsumption
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Venezuela bans crypto mining to protect power grid - This move follows a recent crackdown that involved confiscating 2,000 cr... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/venezuela-bans-crypto-mining-to-protect-power-grid #energyconsumption #electricitysupply #anti-corruption #cryptocurrency #cryptomining #regulations #corruption #venezuela #powergrid #miningban