New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom should…
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Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy
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Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute
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Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
“This is a public trust and transparency issue.”
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
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