In this week's newsletter, we bring you the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of 'big tech meets reality': anti-datacentre sentiment is now thriving across the US political spectrum, and the public is just starting to realize that those massive server farms might have a teensy impact on their electricity bills.

It turns out that more than a dozen states have considered moratoria on datacentres, with New York proudly taking the crown as the first US state to enact a temporary ban last month. Meanwhile, progressive powerhouses Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed a national moratorium, because who doesn't love a good pause on energy-hungry infrastructure? And over in Texas, far-right Governor Greg Abbott has called for a ban on datacentre development in rural areas, proving that even the most unlikely allies can unite against the hum of servers.

But wait, there's more! In other news, marine heatwaves are messing with British seas, Iraq's ghost villages are dealing with a new enemy after Islamic State, and the Danube is suffering from drought so bad that riverbed cyclists are a thing. All this and more, because the world keeps spinning, and so do the fans in those datacentres.