TechCrunch
Ambrosia Energy is building a 10 GWh battery factory in Texas to power data centers with solar and batteries, because apparently the sun wasn't already doing that for free.
The Hill
Trump rallies for data centers in Ohio, arguing they're the difference between American AI dominance and Chinese superintelligence - locals argue they're the difference between affordable electricity and not.
Grist
Georgia's utility regulators left Atlanta for Savannah, where residents let them know exactly how they feel about power bills, data centers, and the meaning of 'public service.'
The Atlantic
Data centers are springing up like unwanted weeds, and politicians are just now realizing that locals aren't thrilled about the AI-fueled concrete invasion in their backyards.
BBC Politics
The Green Party wants to pause data centre construction because our water is more important than AI's thirst. Government says that's a disaster. Meanwhile, servers are parched.
Grist
EPA just made it easier for data centers to build their own polluting power plants, because the 1990s were clearly a different era.
BBC Business
Ofgem proposes data centres pay hundreds of millions in deposits to connect to the grid, aiming to curb speculative projects hogging capacity while the AI boom drives power demand through the roof.
The Atlantic
Silicon Valley discovers that building AI data centers is less like coding and more like running a steel mill, complete with Caterpillar engines and a desperate need for plumbers.
Ars Technica
AI data centers are hogging the power grid, leaving Rust Belt factories paying through the nose - and Trump's manufacturing revival plan is getting short-circuited.
TechCrunch
Data centers are eating the U.S. power grid alive, and PJM's response has been about as helpful as a screen door on a submarine.
Inside Climate News
Pennsylvanians are not thrilled about the state becoming a data center paradise, with a town hall full of complaints about rising costs, water use, and feeling bulldozed by development.
Inside Climate News
The EPA wants to let companies pour foundations and run pipes for gas plants and data centers before getting air permits, because who needs clean air when you have AI to build?
The Guardian
Australia’s energy ministers, except Queensland’s, want AI-serving datacentres to fund their own renewable energy offsets - because the grid shouldn’t be the one picking up the tab for ChatGPT’s midnight snack.
Grist
California's 300+ data centers are thirsty, and the Imperial Valley is about to get a 750,000-gallon-a-day straw - but at least the developer did his homework.
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