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… Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been especially outspoken on the potential harms from both data centers and artificial intelligence. “I don’t think there’s very many people who want to have higher energy bills just so some chatbot can corrupt some 13-year-old kid online,” DeSantis said at an AI r… …
… A report recently published by the UN points out that only 32 countries host data centers specialized in artificial intelligence. …
But the artificial intelligence boom is also giving fossil fuel companies a new industry to sell their gas, pipelines, and power plants to: data centers. …
… According to the DOJ memorandum, there are only four artificial intelligence models, including Grok, that “support mission-critical operations across Secret and Top-Secret classified networks.” A separate declaration filed by Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at… …
… Given that public opposition is creating a new bottleneck for data center development, the timing of the rule revision, Powell says, is probably not an accident. “I think it's part of a package of rules that the Trump administration is pushing through to make it easier for AI data centers to be con…
… Data centers, which use large amounts of energy running artificial intelligence chips, have pushed many large tech companies’ net-zero goals increasingly out of reach over the past few years. …
… The permit application for Google’s Goodnight data center at another Texas site being developed by Crusoe describes relying on 20 simple-cycle turbines. And both xAI’s Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in Memphis are being powered by dozens of simple cycle turbines. …
… Tech companies and real estate developers have announced plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to construct dozens of data centers across the US to support surging demand for artificial intelligence chatbots and other generative AI technologies. …
… That figure represents only CPUs for traditional cloud computing data centers. …
The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet. …