Public Sector7 min read
Hate AI Data Centers? Big Tech’s New Ad Campaign Aims to Change Your Mind
CNET
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Public Sector5 min read
At G20, Big Tech and Global Leaders Can’t Escape AI’s Data Center Problem
CNET
Public Sector3 min read
The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
Futurism
Public Sector4 min read
Environmental Orgs Say Space-Based Data Centers Could Violate Federal Law
Gizmodo
Public Sector9 min read
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
The Verge
Society & Culture5 min read
I don’t want AI - give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel | Rebecca Shaw
The Guardian
Society & Culture7 min read
The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
The Guardian
‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres
The Guardian
Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds
The Guardian
How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’
The Guardian
Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy? | First Dog on the Moon
The Guardian
‘We should not have to sacrifice’: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters
The Guardian
Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers—and It’s Making the Tech Industry Nervous
Gizmodo
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
The Guardian
Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres
The Guardian
Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities
The Guardian
The Anti-Data Center Movement Notches a Huge Victory in Data Center Alley
Gizmodo
Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions
The Guardian
AI Companies Think Destroying the Planet Is an Acceptable Trade-Off for Unlimited Profits
Gizmodo
The Guardian view on AI politics: US datacentre protests are a warning to big tech | Editorial
The Guardian
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
TechCrunch
Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests
Futurism
Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction
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Denver Announces Data Center Moratorium as Opposition Picks Up Steam Around the Country
Gizmodo
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