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… You might’ve heard about plans to put AI data centers in space, but you might want to read UPI’s report about how Samsung and Hyundai want to put data centers on boats. Check out Erin Brockovich’s map of the planned data centers across the US.
… However, Amazon’s data doesn’t factor in indirect water usage at the power plants providing electricity for its data centers, or things like water use from new data center construction. …
… Janet Mills — Texas “is a huge fan of data centers,” Reksopuro said. “Texas actually passed a tax exemption for data centers.” The state gives data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year, The Texas Tribune reports. …
… By contrast, the US currently has negative net immigration, low birth rates, and consistently underfunded education; there is no equivalent human-capital “wave” to support a similar jobs boom in data centers and AI, he says. “The waves of industrialization accompanied waves of human capital into th… …
… In June, the sponsor behind a controversial data center proposal in Citrus County withdrew its plan to build an 800-acre data center in the community after the county commission approved a one-year moratorium on rezoning applications for data centers. “Unfortunately, local moratoriums on data cente… …
… Link: Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/945809/amazon-employees-seattle-data-center-moratorium | The Verge
… Others brought up data center-related increases in their electricity bills in recent years, talked about the number of single-family homes that a data center in Seattle may displace, and played recordings of the sounds of data centers heard from miles away. …
“The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town or any others for that matter ,” Nelson says. …
… In a post on X, Musk said that SpaceX stands ready to offer similar deals to other AI companies that want to access the data centers. …
… Here are a few recent articles about the projects: The Wall Street Journal: America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule CNBC: Stargate live updates: OpenAI’s Altman says ‘people are right to be anxious’ about AI WFLA News Channel 8: Lakeland AI data center proposal sparks online …
