China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center
… A report recently published by the UN points out that only 32 countries host data centers specialized in artificial intelligence. …
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Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
… 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. …
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
… A Western Pensylvania fusion center, for example, claimed that "adversarial actors, including state-sponsored entities, criminal groups, and extremists, such as homegrown violent extremists or environmental extremists, may target US data centers" and that "these actors could also exploit the strate… …
Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved
… 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.
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
… There’s a dream here, evident even in the pages of The New York Times, which in early May ran a headline that called data centers “the most bipartisan issue since beer.” The movement seems to envision a middle ground between rejecting technology wholesale—of truly Unabombering out—and rolling over … …
New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
… Much of the national opposition to data centers has been bipartisan. In March, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the first national moratorium on data centers. …
AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions
… Fossil fuel companies are increasingly providing power for data centers. Chevron and Microsoft recently confirmed that the oil giant would be building a large behind-the-meter gas plant in Texas to power data centers for the tech company. …
Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
… Last week, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting services and exposing the vulnerability of physical tech infrastructure in the region. …
Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants
… That’s why Yang says the first major use case for solid-state batteries might not be in cars at all, but in robots or AI data centers. …
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
… Beyond online outcry, more people are starting to protest against the building of data centers that power these AI tools. “There's a lot of pushback coalescing around data centers," says Emily Bender, coauthor of The AI Con. …