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… When I follow up with her later, as the data center furor in Georgia reaches new heights, she tells me that everyone on her timeline seems to have agreed that data centers are being installed to conduct surveillance on the population. “It’s, I feel like, a ubiquitous fear,” she says. “Like it’s alm… …
… Research released in January from Global Energy Monitor, a nonprofit that tracks oil and gas, showed that nearly 100 gigawatts of behind-the-meter natural gas power for data centers were in the US development pipeline at the start of 2026—up from just 4 gigawatts of data center-specific power in th… …
… With some 300 data centers already in operation and 200 more in development, Texas could surpass Virginia as the nation’s leading data center market by 2030. …
… They also say that it’s likely that any foreign interference is simply adding on to existing tensions over data centers and AI in the US. Local opposition to data centers in the US has skyrocketed in recent months. …
… In Seattle, city officials are weighing a one-year pause on issuing permits for data centers to allow time for setting regulations on the projects. Seattle doesn’t currently have any rules specific to data centers, according to city records. …
… An electrician named Dante tells WIRED that he has worked on data centers operated by Intel, HP, and Amazon. “Nobody judges me” for data center work, he says, because “we're almost always working for the worst possible people in the end, but we all need a paycheck because of the unlivable world tha… …
… The first instance of RNG was unleashed in a Dublin data center in 2024. Amazon then expanded the technology to data centers in Germany and Spain. The company says that now, most newly-built data centers are being outfitted with the RNG networking protocol.
… SpaceX is leasing access to some of the servers at the Colossus data centers for $15 billion annually to Anthropic, the AI startup that develops the Claude chatbot. …
… Over the past two years, AMD has significantly grown its share of the market for CPUs used in data centers. The company has long been recognized as a pioneer of the modern chiplet architecture used in x86 processors, which still account for the vast majority of data center CPU revenue. …
… But even as Musk and other SpaceX investors see a huge windfall, the community hosting xAI data centers already in operation are demanding accountability from the company’s use of polluting gas turbines and a water-treatment facility put on pause earlier this year. “We’re the extracted and exploite… …
