Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters
Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure growsSeattle has passed a year-long moratori...
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AIA record-shattering drought ha...
‘We should not have to sacrifice’: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters
Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target ‘hyperscale’ datacenters over 20MWNew York moved closer toward b...
Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters
Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom growsSeattle’s city government is on the verge o...
In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a banSign up for the Breaking News US newsle...
Datacenters avançam para o interior dos EUA e a população tenta freá-los
Com 67% das construções de novos datacenters sendo em áreas rurais do país, empresas de tecnologia e governos são enfrentados por comunidades locais q...
Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters
Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in MaineThe Democratic governor of Main...
