Tag: data centers

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.

The Bureau of Land Management now has until September 21 to explain why it treated a 167-megawatt data center as the same project as the solar plant it originally approved.

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.

The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19.

Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities.

Piping water into the server halls could be a much more efficient way to remove waste heat.

Twenty-three states had approved special rates for the largest power users by May, and Oracle's own credit rating now sits below the threshold Wisconsin regulators set.

Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.

Reno and Sparks are approving the data centers that feed AI warfare abroad, then buying the camera networks that bring it home.

Communities around the world are converging on a shared target, the AI data center, and giving the climate movement a local fight it can win.