Since early 2024, more than 1,200 public actions have been logged by the Data Center Tracker, a public U.S. database of community responses to data center site selection. Maine's governor vetoed a bill that would have imposed a statewide moratorium on new data centers. Up to 10 other states are considering similar measures to contain their expansion.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger wants to assign transmission costs of data center needs to those facilities. Data centers are behind a majority of the billions in costs of new transmission lines needed to deliver power throughout Northern Virginia. The case is known as Rider T-1, because of the label on a customer bill that lists the costs of transmission projects Dominion Energy can spend and recover outside of base rates.
Nathan Sanders and Nathan E. Sanders write an essay on AI data centers and the concentration of power of AI companies. They argue that the focus on data centers obscures the larger impacts of AI on people’s lives, and their widespread political and financial influence. AI companies have their eyes on capturing all the value created by entire industries.
Alliance Cloud Services operates the Hyperscale Data Center in Dowagiac, Michigan. Two residents have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the company over noise from the facility. The company is planning to expand its footprint in the area around the facility and buy another 48.5 acres of land near it.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk exchanged barbs on social media over the weekend. Musk accused Altman of being a scammer. Altman claims that public market investors are ignoring the fact that space data centers are not going to be a serious business anytime soon. SpaceX's plans to launch a fleet of orbital data centers to perform AI inference tasks are the main driver behind the company's 2-trillion-dollar valuation.
Vice President JD Vance is negotiating to rent a $9 million manor in Middleburg, Virginia from Charles "Chuck" Kuhn. The family is planning to use the manor as a secondary residence while still living in the taxpayer-funded Naval Observatory. Kuhn has made millions on data centers thanks to the Trump administration’s ongoing push for AI technology.
Bessemer, Alabama, released a non-disclosure agreement between city leaders and developers of a hyperscale data center. Environmental groups threatened to sue the city over its refusal to share public documents related to the proposed construction of a 4.5 million-square-foot data center on the rural southwest edge of the city of 25,000. The agreement requires city officials to destroy all copies of information the developer considers confidential.
This year has been one for the record books in the Midwest due to extreme weather caused by climate change. Many homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the extreme weather. This year's tornadoes in Illinois have been the most severe in the US this year.
Since early 2024, more than 1,200 public actions have been logged by the Data Center Tracker, a public U.S. database of community responses to data center site selection. Maine's governor vetoed a bill that would have imposed a statewide moratorium on new data centers. Up to 10 other states are considering similar measures to contain their expansion.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger wants to assign transmission costs of data center needs to those facilities. Data centers are behind a majority of the billions in costs of new transmission lines needed to deliver power throughout Northern Virginia. The case is known as Rider T-1, because of the label on a customer bill that lists the costs of transmission projects Dominion Energy can spend and recover outside of base rates.
Nathan Sanders and Nathan E. Sanders write an essay on AI data centers and the concentration of power of AI companies. They argue that the focus on data centers obscures the larger impacts of AI on people’s lives, and their widespread political and financial influence. AI companies have their eyes on capturing all the value created by entire industries.
Alliance Cloud Services operates the Hyperscale Data Center in Dowagiac, Michigan. Two residents have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the company over noise from the facility. The company is planning to expand its footprint in the area around the facility and buy another 48.5 acres of land near it.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk exchanged barbs on social media over the weekend. Musk accused Altman of being a scammer. Altman claims that public market investors are ignoring the fact that space data centers are not going to be a serious business anytime soon. SpaceX's plans to launch a fleet of orbital data centers to perform AI inference tasks are the main driver behind the company's 2-trillion-dollar valuation.
Vice President JD Vance is negotiating to rent a $9 million manor in Middleburg, Virginia from Charles "Chuck" Kuhn. The family is planning to use the manor as a secondary residence while still living in the taxpayer-funded Naval Observatory. Kuhn has made millions on data centers thanks to the Trump administration’s ongoing push for AI technology.
Bessemer, Alabama, released a non-disclosure agreement between city leaders and developers of a hyperscale data center. Environmental groups threatened to sue the city over its refusal to share public documents related to the proposed construction of a 4.5 million-square-foot data center on the rural southwest edge of the city of 25,000. The agreement requires city officials to destroy all copies of information the developer considers confidential.
This year has been one for the record books in the Midwest due to extreme weather caused by climate change. Many homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the extreme weather. This year's tornadoes in Illinois have been the most severe in the US this year.