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Some communities are stopping massive AI data centers in their tracks. Others are getting steamrolled. The difference often comes down to a handful of specific tactics most people don’t know about until it’s too late. Kristen Meghan👩‍🔬🐻 and Tammy K. Clark have spent months helping communities fight back. From...

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Erin Brockovich is sounding the alarm on the impact data centers are having on rural communities' water supply. “These big data centers are coming into rural areas of farmland where a lot of people are on their own well water.” “They report a reduction in water pressure. Their water is just dripping into a bucket.” “They’re very concerned that they could lose their aquifers, and they could literally be out of water.” As AI drives a massive data center boom, many rural communities are raising concerns about depleted aquifers, falling water pressure, and growing strain on local water supplies. Rural families should not be forced to compete with massive corporations for access to clean water and other essential resources. Erin Brockovich
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Erin Brockovich is sounding the alarm on the impact data centers are having on rural communities' water supply. “These big data centers are coming into rural areas of farmland where a lot of people are on their own well water.” “They report a reduction in water pressure. Their water is just dripping into a bucket.” “They’re very concerned that they could lose their aquifers, and they could literally be out of water.” As AI drives a massive data center boom, many rural communities are raising concerns about depleted aquifers, falling water pressure, and growing strain on local water supplies. Rural families should not be forced to compete with massive corporations for access to clean water and other essential resources. Erin Brockovich

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🚨 Data centers are TAKING OVER. 🚨 Big AI is destroying Georgia communities to power massive data centers that residents never asked for. “330 property owners are being impacted.” “21 homes are being completely demolished.” “The power lines are gonna be like 12 feet from her bedroom window.” “While she is asleep at night in her bed, Georgia Power can pull a truck up 12 feet from her window and do whatever they want because they own the property.” “This would be to provide power … to a data center that is not in the same county as my mom’s house.” “There are 3 other data centers that have already been approved.”
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🚨 Data centers are TAKING OVER. 🚨 Big AI is destroying Georgia communities to power massive data centers that residents never asked for. “330 property owners are being impacted.” “21 homes are being completely demolished.” “The power lines are gonna be like 12 feet from her bedroom window.” “While she is asleep at night in her bed, Georgia Power can pull a truck up 12 feet from her window and do whatever they want because they own the property.” “This would be to provide power … to a data center that is not in the same county as my mom’s house.” “There are 3 other data centers that have already been approved.”

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REPORT: Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe region are now being told they could lose access to electricity because power is being redirected to AI data centers. Many Americans are starting to fear this is in their future, too, as data centers are being forced onto communities nationwide. What’s happening in Tahoe is no longer just a dispute over utilities. It’s becoming a warning sign for the entire nation as homes, tourism, local economies, and basic human needs are pushed aside to make room for the AI buildout. NV Energy reportedly plans to stop supplying the region after May 2027 because the power is needed to fuel the rapidly expanding AI data center boom. Residents now face collapsing property values, fears their communities may no longer remain livable, and the horrifying realization that ordinary Americans are increasingly being pushed aside so the AI race can accelerate. Critics say this keeps happening because data center developers and their political allies are being treated as more important than the people already living in these communities. The deeper fear spreading nationwide is becoming impossible to ignore: if Americans can lose power so AI infrastructure can expand, what will communities be forced to sacrifice next? ZeeeMediaOfficial's explosive report uncovers why growing numbers of Americans are starting to believe entire communities be traded away for the AI race.
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REPORT: Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe region are now being told they could lose access to electricity because power is being redirected to AI data centers. Many Americans are starting to fear this is in their future, too, as data centers are being forced onto communities nationwide. What’s happening in Tahoe is no longer just a dispute over utilities. It’s becoming a warning sign for the entire nation as homes, tourism, local economies, and basic human needs are pushed aside to make room for the AI buildout. NV Energy reportedly plans to stop supplying the region after May 2027 because the power is needed to fuel the rapidly expanding AI data center boom. Residents now face collapsing property values, fears their communities may no longer remain livable, and the horrifying realization that ordinary Americans are increasingly being pushed aside so the AI race can accelerate. Critics say this keeps happening because data center developers and their political allies are being treated as more important than the people already living in these communities. The deeper fear spreading nationwide is becoming impossible to ignore: if Americans can lose power so AI infrastructure can expand, what will communities be forced to sacrifice next? ZeeeMediaOfficial's explosive report uncovers why growing numbers of Americans are starting to believe entire communities be traded away for the AI race.

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: The anti-data center movement is trying to solve problems that don't exist. Adrian Dittmann: "There are a lot of misunderstandings around what exactly these things are, their environmental impact, why they even have an impact at all." "There's a neighborhood complaining about generator noise. But they actually requested the data center not connect to the local power infrastructure. So now the company has to run generators. The people complaining about the noise created the noise." "The water problem, people don't understand that these are self-contained systems and that these issues are largely 10 to 20 years old. Many of these issues do not even apply anymore." "You can even look this up yourself. The price for electricity because of data center construction has actually gone down because it has forced the energy companies to actually improve the infrastructure, improve the power grid." "Same thing happened with EVs. They said if there's gonna be a million EVs, there's going to be a collapse of the energy infrastructure. You have millions of EVs now. Nothing collapsed."
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SITUATION EXPLAINED: The anti-data center movement is trying to solve problems that don't exist. Adrian Dittmann: "There are a lot of misunderstandings around what exactly these things are, their environmental impact, why they even have an impact at all." "There's a neighborhood complaining about generator noise. But they actually requested the data center not connect to the local power infrastructure. So now the company has to run generators. The people complaining about the noise created the noise." "The water problem, people don't understand that these are self-contained systems and that these issues are largely 10 to 20 years old. Many of these issues do not even apply anymore." "You can even look this up yourself. The price for electricity because of data center construction has actually gone down because it has forced the energy companies to actually improve the infrastructure, improve the power grid." "Same thing happened with EVs. They said if there's gonna be a million EVs, there's going to be a collapse of the energy infrastructure. You have millions of EVs now. Nothing collapsed."

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David Friedberg: Michael Burry’s Datacenter Math is Wrong “I actually think Michael Burberry's got this wrong.” “What Michael Burry is saying is that all of these hyperscalers have extended their depreciation schedule or the useful life of their data centers by roughly 2x, which cuts the operating costs in half when they report it in earnings. And so it's making their earnings inflate.” “So he's claiming they're cooking the books. Google first made this change in Q1 of 2021, where they said the servers are now going from 3 to 4 years. Separately in 2021, Google took networking equipment from 3 to 5 years. And then in 2023, they took it from 5 to 6 years.” “And so this is a result of this effort where they went in and did an analysis. So what happened?” “What happened in the data centers is that the data centers transitioned from being primarily data storage and data transfer systems, where you would use hard drives and RAM and memory to store data and then transmit it back out, to being data processing centers because of the AI boom.” “So as AI became more important in the data center, more of the dollars that are going into data centers were allocated towards chips from data storage, which initially was hard drives.” “And then suddenly, when you put these processors in to process the data to do AI, the majority of the spend and the majority of the energy is going towards the processors.” “I made some calls and I checked around with some other friends, and everyone says the same thing: that these 7-8 year old TPUs and GPUs that are sitting in the data centers are still being used and they're being used at 100% utilization.” “So that actually justifies and validates the depreciation schedule being much longer versus shorter.”
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David Friedberg: Michael Burry’s Datacenter Math is Wrong “I actually think Michael Burberry's got this wrong.” “What Michael Burry is saying is that all of these hyperscalers have extended their depreciation schedule or the useful life of their data centers by roughly 2x, which cuts the operating costs in half when they report it in earnings. And so it's making their earnings inflate.” “So he's claiming they're cooking the books. Google first made this change in Q1 of 2021, where they said the servers are now going from 3 to 4 years. Separately in 2021, Google took networking equipment from 3 to 5 years. And then in 2023, they took it from 5 to 6 years.” “And so this is a result of this effort where they went in and did an analysis. So what happened?” “What happened in the data centers is that the data centers transitioned from being primarily data storage and data transfer systems, where you would use hard drives and RAM and memory to store data and then transmit it back out, to being data processing centers because of the AI boom.” “So as AI became more important in the data center, more of the dollars that are going into data centers were allocated towards chips from data storage, which initially was hard drives.” “And then suddenly, when you put these processors in to process the data to do AI, the majority of the spend and the majority of the energy is going towards the processors.” “I made some calls and I checked around with some other friends, and everyone says the same thing: that these 7-8 year old TPUs and GPUs that are sitting in the data centers are still being used and they're being used at 100% utilization.” “So that actually justifies and validates the depreciation schedule being much longer versus shorter.”

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🚨 A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL SPOKE OUT AGAINST A DATA CENTER AND POLICE FORCIBLY REMOVED HER — THEY'RE COMING AFTER YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH A 14-year-old girl showed up to oppose a proposed data center. She tried to speak. Moments later, chaos erupted. Police removed her from the meeting. A teenager raises concerns about a project that could affect her community for decades... and ends up being escorted out. But that's not even the craziest part. Because Microsoft lawyers have openly admitted that communities don't want data centers in their backyards. They know residents push back. They know people don't want them. They know local communities fight these projects. And yet the projects keep moving forward anyway. Again. And again. And again. Meanwhile, data centers keep demanding more electricity. More water. More land. In Georgia, outrage erupted after reports that a major data center operation used tens of millions of gallons of water before residents were later told to conserve. At the same time, Marco Rubio announced the government's plan to roll out facial recognition. Digital IDs. Biometric verification. AI-powered systems. And every one of those systems requires massive computing infrastructure. What exactly are they preparing for that requires this much power, this much water, and doesn't allow public input?
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HustleBitch

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🚨THE ONE REAL CONCERN NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT AI data centers are being forced into communities under the banner of “progress.” But one issue alone is enough for the people to protest: TONAL NOISE. That constant industrial hum. The low frequency vibration. The mechanical drone from fans, cooling systems, transformers, and generators running day and night. This is not “background noise.” This invades homes. It disrupts sleep. It agitates the nervous system. It destroys peace, property value, farm animal reproductive systems, and quality of life. There is a reason militaries have used sound and tonal noise as psychological torture. Now imagine that same kind of relentless noise embedded permanently in your community, serving Big Tech, AI, surveillance, and data harvesting. No tax incentive is worth that. No corporate promise is worth that. No county commission has the moral right to trade away the peace and health of the people for an AI data center deal. Tonal noise alone is enough. The people have every right to protest before the hum becomes permanent. Byron Donalds and Jay Collins are PRO AI DATA CENTERS. The ONLY Candidate standing up and saying HELL NO to these massive community impact projects is Paul Renner. Renner is a HARD PASS on AI Data Centers. Listen...here's why
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🚨THE ONE REAL CONCERN NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT AI data centers are being forced into communities under the banner of “progress.” But one issue alone is enough for the people to protest: TONAL NOISE. That constant industrial hum. The low frequency vibration. The mechanical drone from fans, cooling systems, transformers, and generators running day and night. This is not “background noise.” This invades homes. It disrupts sleep. It agitates the nervous system. It destroys peace, property value, farm animal reproductive systems, and quality of life. There is a reason militaries have used sound and tonal noise as psychological torture. Now imagine that same kind of relentless noise embedded permanently in your community, serving Big Tech, AI, surveillance, and data harvesting. No tax incentive is worth that. No corporate promise is worth that. No county commission has the moral right to trade away the peace and health of the people for an AI data center deal. Tonal noise alone is enough. The people have every right to protest before the hum becomes permanent. Byron Donalds and Jay Collins are PRO AI DATA CENTERS. The ONLY Candidate standing up and saying HELL NO to these massive community impact projects is Paul Renner. Renner is a HARD PASS on AI Data Centers. Listen...here's why

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There is a new massive 300 megawatt hyperscale AI data center proposed by a Netherlands-based company being put right next to a new medical and rehabilitation campus for injured, abused and recovering animals The data center would be only 1,100 feet away This new huge data center would impact the animals because of constant noise, vibrations, light pollution, heat and other disruptions. This would be especially bad for stressed, recovering, or sensitive animals The AI data center is claiming by the company to produce no increase in ambient or background noise levels at the property line or nearby areas They say “The facility will not exceed current background/ambient noise in the area” I wouldn’t believe this for a second, we’ve all seen how loud these hyperscale AI data centers are The location is in Alabama and the Greater Birmingham Humane Society is who’s speaking out because this data center is being proposed right next to their new proposed animal treatment facility This should not be allowed to happen
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There is a new massive 300 megawatt hyperscale AI data center proposed by a Netherlands-based company being put right next to a new medical and rehabilitation campus for injured, abused and recovering animals The data center would be only 1,100 feet away This new huge data center would impact the animals because of constant noise, vibrations, light pollution, heat and other disruptions. This would be especially bad for stressed, recovering, or sensitive animals The AI data center is claiming by the company to produce no increase in ambient or background noise levels at the property line or nearby areas They say “The facility will not exceed current background/ambient noise in the area” I wouldn’t believe this for a second, we’ve all seen how loud these hyperscale AI data centers are The location is in Alabama and the Greater Birmingham Humane Society is who’s speaking out because this data center is being proposed right next to their new proposed animal treatment facility This should not be allowed to happen

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At Consensus Hong Kong last week, the most exciting conversations weren’t about the tech, they were about the freedom it can bring. We met builders and creators who are finally finding ways to grow their communities without sharing their data or identity. It’s a shift from being "the product" to being in the driver's seat. We're proud to be part of a movement that gives people back their digital agency.

Polkadot

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🇺🇸 A 250-acre Oracle data center in Saline Township, Michigan needs about as much power as one million homes. Michigan alone has a dozen AI data centers planned. Another is under construction. And Democrats and Republicans nationwide are growing increasingly united… in opposition. People aren't anti-tech, they're anti-ambush. Big tech companies show up in their towns, make backroom deals, and these communities don’t feel like they are being heard. These companies have spent years lobbying Washington’s elite about the future. But they seem to forget about talking to the people who live where that future is being built. Source: NYT
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🇺🇸 A 250-acre Oracle data center in Saline Township, Michigan needs about as much power as one million homes. Michigan alone has a dozen AI data centers planned. Another is under construction. And Democrats and Republicans nationwide are growing increasingly united… in opposition. People aren't anti-tech, they're anti-ambush. Big tech companies show up in their towns, make backroom deals, and these communities don’t feel like they are being heard. These companies have spent years lobbying Washington’s elite about the future. But they seem to forget about talking to the people who live where that future is being built. Source: NYT

Mario Nawfal

92,356 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

There is a new extremely viral theory going around that many of the data centers being built in America aren’t really data centers They’re actually modern day panopticon. A digital surveillance state Even Tucker Carlson thinks this is the case and brings it up with Kevin O'Leary There are some real reasons to question what we’re being told, one of the reasons is the size and scale Think about this China’s largest reported single data center campus is only about 200 football fields in size Compare that to the US where a single data center is being planned at 33,000 football fields. Not to mention there are tons of them that are massive being planned and built It really doesn’t make sense when you compare the population of China being bigger than the US This is a conspiracy, but it’s something to think about because we know America has been moving towards a surveillance state, that’s every real Keep paying attention and questioning things
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There is a new extremely viral theory going around that many of the data centers being built in America aren’t really data centers They’re actually modern day panopticon. A digital surveillance state Even Tucker Carlson thinks this is the case and brings it up with Kevin O'Leary There are some real reasons to question what we’re being told, one of the reasons is the size and scale Think about this China’s largest reported single data center campus is only about 200 football fields in size Compare that to the US where a single data center is being planned at 33,000 football fields. Not to mention there are tons of them that are massive being planned and built It really doesn’t make sense when you compare the population of China being bigger than the US This is a conspiracy, but it’s something to think about because we know America has been moving towards a surveillance state, that’s every real Keep paying attention and questioning things

Wall Street Apes

178,337 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

New Jersey residents are noticing construction crews surveying and replacing lines to upgrade power infrastructure for Data Centers Residents are paying for these upgrades These lines being updated are for a data center that’s not even close, it’s across the bridge 20 minutes away This is happening across Fairless Hills, Bristol, Middletown, and surrounding Bucks County spots due to multiple data center projects New Jersey already has 80+ data centers with more planned so these updates are happening everywhere Residents in these areas are already paying some of the power costs and grid upgrades related to data centers Welcome to corporate socialism. Money is taken from you to pay for the data centers infrastructure, but they won’t share any of the profits with you It’s called socialized losses and privatized profits
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New Jersey residents are noticing construction crews surveying and replacing lines to upgrade power infrastructure for Data Centers Residents are paying for these upgrades These lines being updated are for a data center that’s not even close, it’s across the bridge 20 minutes away This is happening across Fairless Hills, Bristol, Middletown, and surrounding Bucks County spots due to multiple data center projects New Jersey already has 80+ data centers with more planned so these updates are happening everywhere Residents in these areas are already paying some of the power costs and grid upgrades related to data centers Welcome to corporate socialism. Money is taken from you to pay for the data centers infrastructure, but they won’t share any of the profits with you It’s called socialized losses and privatized profits

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Premier of Manitoba in Canada Wab Kinew says the quiet part out loud He’s rejecting data center projects because the real reason behind them is “surveillance capitalism” “We're not gonna move ahead with the data centre — I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” “So the message to any company out there should be, if you wanna have a thoughtful, human-centered approach to technology, come to Manitoba 'cause that's what we're interested in” This really should make you wonder about all the thousands of data centers being rapidly put up in America. You don’t need that many data centers for AI… The surveillance state is being built, right now I show in the video there are already hundreds of hyper scale data centers in America where they are either dedicated to, or a portion of them is dedicated to, surveillance of American for things like purchases It’s already happening
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Premier of Manitoba in Canada Wab Kinew says the quiet part out loud He’s rejecting data center projects because the real reason behind them is “surveillance capitalism” “We're not gonna move ahead with the data centre — I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” “So the message to any company out there should be, if you wanna have a thoughtful, human-centered approach to technology, come to Manitoba 'cause that's what we're interested in” This really should make you wonder about all the thousands of data centers being rapidly put up in America. You don’t need that many data centers for AI… The surveillance state is being built, right now I show in the video there are already hundreds of hyper scale data centers in America where they are either dedicated to, or a portion of them is dedicated to, surveillance of American for things like purchases It’s already happening

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31,304 просмотров • 24 дней назад

🇺🇸 BERNIE SANDERS SAYS AI DATA CENTERS COULD JACK UP BILLS AND WILL KILL YOUR JOB Bernie is pushing back on the rapid spread of massive AI data centers, arguing the damage is already showing up far from Silicon Valley. These facilities are not harmless buildings filled with computers. They consume extraordinary amounts of electricity and water, forcing local grids to stretch and utilities to pass higher costs down to households that never asked for them. Sanders says the AI boom is being sold as progress while the downsides land unevenly. Automation threatens jobs that once supported families, and the infrastructure needed to keep servers running often falls on local governments. Communities are left dealing with long term strain while tech companies capture the upside and move on. His answer is a pause. He wants new data center construction halted until clear rules exist that protect workers, limit environmental damage, and stop utility bills from quietly climbing. The goal is not to shut down innovation, but to slow it long enough to set boundaries. Source: Newsweek, Bernie Sanders
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🇺🇸 BERNIE SANDERS SAYS AI DATA CENTERS COULD JACK UP BILLS AND WILL KILL YOUR JOB Bernie is pushing back on the rapid spread of massive AI data centers, arguing the damage is already showing up far from Silicon Valley. These facilities are not harmless buildings filled with computers. They consume extraordinary amounts of electricity and water, forcing local grids to stretch and utilities to pass higher costs down to households that never asked for them. Sanders says the AI boom is being sold as progress while the downsides land unevenly. Automation threatens jobs that once supported families, and the infrastructure needed to keep servers running often falls on local governments. Communities are left dealing with long term strain while tech companies capture the upside and move on. His answer is a pause. He wants new data center construction halted until clear rules exist that protect workers, limit environmental damage, and stop utility bills from quietly climbing. The goal is not to shut down innovation, but to slow it long enough to set boundaries. Source: Newsweek, Bernie Sanders

Mario Nawfal

14,248 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

MoistCr1TiKaL comes out strongly against data centers in recent video and ponders if they're making people sicker due to hoarding clean water "AI data centers are actually the boogeyman..a scourge on this planet and a stain on civilized society..no normal ppl with functioning frontal lobes want data centers in their community, it is bad for them" "I've been getting conspiratorial..I was reading something that someone was sharing about like when a AI data center came through, and the impact it had on their water, cause that's a very common thing" "I'm not fully bought into it..but it's an interesting theory..what if the reason there's been seemingly so much more sickness, like it feels like ppl are getting sick more frequently now and a wide variety of illnesses just seem more common..what if AI data centers are hoarding all of the clean water..what if all the clean water is being diverted to the AI data centers and the normal civilians are just getting the sludge runoff..I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility..they are evil enough to do that" (Via penguinz0 on YT)
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MoistCr1TiKaL comes out strongly against data centers in recent video and ponders if they're making people sicker due to hoarding clean water "AI data centers are actually the boogeyman..a scourge on this planet and a stain on civilized society..no normal ppl with functioning frontal lobes want data centers in their community, it is bad for them" "I've been getting conspiratorial..I was reading something that someone was sharing about like when a AI data center came through, and the impact it had on their water, cause that's a very common thing" "I'm not fully bought into it..but it's an interesting theory..what if the reason there's been seemingly so much more sickness, like it feels like ppl are getting sick more frequently now and a wide variety of illnesses just seem more common..what if AI data centers are hoarding all of the clean water..what if all the clean water is being diverted to the AI data centers and the normal civilians are just getting the sludge runoff..I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility..they are evil enough to do that" (Via penguinz0 on YT)

yeet

3,001,324 просмотров • 9 дней назад

ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”
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ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”

Wall Street Apes

152,024 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Maysville, Kentucky residents being kicked out to make room for a Data Center “It's a community made up of mostly elderly people and people with disabilities in a trailer park. Now those families are being told they need to make way for a massive data center. The notice came this weekend for 28 mobile homeowners” “For the past several months about an unnamed AI firm that began offering landowners in Mason County up to 10 times what their land is worth — That purchaser is an unnamed AI company that is attempting to put a 2000 acre hyperscale data center complex near Maysville.”
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Maysville, Kentucky residents being kicked out to make room for a Data Center “It's a community made up of mostly elderly people and people with disabilities in a trailer park. Now those families are being told they need to make way for a massive data center. The notice came this weekend for 28 mobile homeowners” “For the past several months about an unnamed AI firm that began offering landowners in Mason County up to 10 times what their land is worth — That purchaser is an unnamed AI company that is attempting to put a 2000 acre hyperscale data center complex near Maysville.”

Wall Street Apes

223,378 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

What if we stopped calling them data centers? Samo Burja: "Consider why do we talk about data centers, not supercomputers?" "A data center in my hometown that sounds like someone's gonna steal my data. I don't feel like I have any opportunities." "A supercomputing center in my hometown? Suddenly I might have opportunities. I might have a job. Galaxy-brain stuff is happening there." "These are not data centers anymore, these are actually distributed supercomputers." "If the median use case is not the laptop on my desk or the phone in my hand, the chips can be pretty big. You might actually see the macro chip. I think people are underrating that future and not really expecting it."
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What if we stopped calling them data centers? Samo Burja: "Consider why do we talk about data centers, not supercomputers?" "A data center in my hometown that sounds like someone's gonna steal my data. I don't feel like I have any opportunities." "A supercomputing center in my hometown? Suddenly I might have opportunities. I might have a job. Galaxy-brain stuff is happening there." "These are not data centers anymore, these are actually distributed supercomputers." "If the median use case is not the laptop on my desk or the phone in my hand, the chips can be pretty big. You might actually see the macro chip. I think people are underrating that future and not really expecting it."

MTS

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As AI infrastructure scales, how do American's benefit? COATUE 's Thomas Laffont: "The token is the atomic unit of AI. If you produce tokens you can produce AI. We're seeing now these factories from power to chips to data centers get put together so you can produce tokens. How did you think about making sure that the benefits were widely shared?" Director Michael Kratsios : "The greatest and most powerful well-capitalized companies in the world are the ones that are most interested in building these data centers." "The President brought the companies to the White House and got them to agree to build, bring, or buy their own power to build these data centers." "The American people need to have confidence that when these data centers come to town they will not be the ones who are gonna be bearing the cost of that electricity." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 The Hill & Valley Forum COATUE White House OSTP 47
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As AI infrastructure scales, how do American's benefit? COATUE 's Thomas Laffont: "The token is the atomic unit of AI. If you produce tokens you can produce AI. We're seeing now these factories from power to chips to data centers get put together so you can produce tokens. How did you think about making sure that the benefits were widely shared?" Director Michael Kratsios : "The greatest and most powerful well-capitalized companies in the world are the ones that are most interested in building these data centers." "The President brought the companies to the White House and got them to agree to build, bring, or buy their own power to build these data centers." "The American people need to have confidence that when these data centers come to town they will not be the ones who are gonna be bearing the cost of that electricity." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 The Hill & Valley Forum COATUE White House OSTP 47

The Hill & Valley Forum

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John: There is a lot of opposition to building in America, broadly. That's just the nature of our society. I was thinking about, what do Americans want to build? Because it's easy to look at the data center stuff and be like, "Well, everyone's against building data centers." I was reflecting on the whole reindustrialization meme this weekend. And I was thinking about the actual knock-on effects of reindustrialization — most people don't want a car factory in their town. I actually think people don't really want change. They don't want things built. Data centers are probably at the bottom of the list. They're the least popular. But people don't want stuff built, generally. There are very few things that people are like, "Yeah, I'd be down for that to be built." People like the status quo. They're happy with things as they are. And they don't like change. People block home construction all the time. Also, permitting and expansion of existing homes. I'm not saying that they're as unpopular as data centers. Data centers are at the bottom. But new housing in communities is like razor's edge. I do think there's an element of like, Americans don't want to build anything.
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John: There is a lot of opposition to building in America, broadly. That's just the nature of our society. I was thinking about, what do Americans want to build? Because it's easy to look at the data center stuff and be like, "Well, everyone's against building data centers." I was reflecting on the whole reindustrialization meme this weekend. And I was thinking about the actual knock-on effects of reindustrialization — most people don't want a car factory in their town. I actually think people don't really want change. They don't want things built. Data centers are probably at the bottom of the list. They're the least popular. But people don't want stuff built, generally. There are very few things that people are like, "Yeah, I'd be down for that to be built." People like the status quo. They're happy with things as they are. And they don't like change. People block home construction all the time. Also, permitting and expansion of existing homes. I'm not saying that they're as unpopular as data centers. Data centers are at the bottom. But new housing in communities is like razor's edge. I do think there's an element of like, Americans don't want to build anything.

TBPN

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