Ben Inskeep

Data center load growth is making these other things much more expensive. Clean energy wasted on AI is clean energy not beong used to retire a coal plant or electrify industry. AI data centers are the problem, and should be stopped, so we can decarbonize the things that we need the clean energy for

Data center load growth competes with these and is driving the costs impossibly high for other electrification, slowing it down. Also, data center load growth is far far higher than any other type of load growth in Indiana. It is the problem here keeping coal open and driving gas build out.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Venture Capital Will Run Out At The Current Rate of Investment In Six Quarters, And OpenAI Needs More Investment Than Ever: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI. In a very real sense, OpenAI threatens the future of available capital for the tech industry.

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money.

Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke.

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Ask DEP to Deny the Homer City Air Permit Take action now to tell the PA DEP to deny the air permit for the massive Homer City fracked gas plant which could power a massive data center. This project would threaten the health of surrounding co...

Tell the PA Department of Environmental Protection to DENY the Homer City fracked gas plant air permit!

This will be one of the largest fracked gas plants in the country and it will power an energy-sucking data center.

Take action by Sept. 29th: secure.everyaction.com/DztxH0ymAUW5...

The moment Google withdrew its petition for an AI data center in Indianapolis last night.🎉

Organizing works! We can win when we fight back against Big Tech!

AI data centers are NOT inevitable. This is the ninth one stopped in Indiana thanks to communities organizing in opposition. 💪

It’s important for everybody to understand that when your electricity bill doubles, it is doubling to pay for data centers which will be housing mainframes to operate AI using your electricity and your water, and you will pay through the nose to develop a technology to replace you

The IBJ - Indianapolis Business Journal just layed out the whole Google data center proposal in ONE article

Whew 😲😲😲

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Gov. Braun signed multiple pieces of anti-consumer utility legislation a few months ago that will raise electricity bills even more...

LG&E says $3B expansion will protect Kentucky ratepayers from data center costs, others are doubtful Kentucky’s largest utility company is proposing a mechanism to make new data centers pay their fair share, but first wants approval to build $3 billion of new gas plants.

ICYMI: LG&E wants to spend $3B on 2 new gas plants & extend the life of two new coal plants, largely due to future data center demand. Other states have higher energy bills now because of data centers, but LG&E says it has a mechanism to protect KY ratepayers... which some are very skeptical of.

California lawmakers kill plans to curb AI-manipulated prices Three bills to regulate AI price discrimination died or were scaled back in the state legislature during a secretive appropriations process.

"A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled." #California
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Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

We live in a version of the universe where a mega corporation needs more power than a major American city so that an AI data center can run a chatbot of John Cena sexting a kid.

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?

Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!

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Beating Back Data Centers Desperate for ‘free money,’ most of the communities that approve these facilities are outmatched by developers. But these water-guzzling, power-hungry projects have major downsides.

Data center deluge: Towns are “just so in the dark about how big these facilities are going to be, where they’re going to get their power from, where they’re going to get their water from."

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La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Power costs soar in PJM region as data center demand spikes Homes and businesses in the largest U.S. electric grid - operated by PJM Interconnection - could face rate increases of up to 60% over the next five years as the energy needs of Big Tech's data centers intensify, according to analysts and consumer advocates.

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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

What happens when a massive data center is built 1,000 ft. from your house? For one couple, it meant their water ran dry and their electricity bills doubled. @nytimes.com interviewed Beverly & Jeff Morris, who live in New County, GA, about what it’s been like living across from a Meta data center.

Surging data center demand fuels US power price hikes Over the past decade, PJM Interconnection has paid about $6.5 billion annually to power generators, costs that are ultimately borne by homes and businesses.

Surging data center demand fuels US power price hikes

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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

“A data center like Meta’s … typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day … Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken.”

Paywall-free gift article:

Energy costs are rising. This state says tech companies must pay more. Ohio energy regulators sided with consumers over data centers Wednesday, increasing up-front electricity charges paid by Amazon, Google and other tech firms.

OH's energy regulator sides with everyday ratepayers and utility AEP in their battle with Big Tech over who covers the costs of the data center boom. Ratepayer's comment to PUCO captures it nicely: “citizens should never be asked to financially subsidize the largest companies in the world.”

Boy the clean-energy industry's strategy of abandoning the climate movement and tying on to the data center buildout has really swayed a lot of GOP (sarcastic)

Indiana's data center boom could be disastrous for health and environment, advocates say Indiana opened the door for data centers, but environmental and consumer advocates say there's a huge risk to health and environment.

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As electricity-guzzling data centers flock to Indiana, utilities are proposing the most expensive gas plants in state history, the Governor and President are pushing to keep uneconomic coal plants open, and local govs are banning renewables.

A disaster for ratepayers & climate.

Indiana state officials want to attract data centers. Local communities are beginning to push back - Inside INdiana Business In multiple Indiana communities, resistance to data centers is mounting. Here's how Kosciuszko County and Valparaiso organized against the projects.

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Great story on how Hoosiers across the state are getting organized, fighting back, and WINNING against large data center developments that threaten their communities.

5 data centers defeated...and counting!

MD could get hit with $800 million energy bill due to VA data center needs PJM, the regional power grid operator, is proposing a transmission line plan that could cost Maryland Ratepayers $800 million.

Maryland needs to block this. A lot of Maryland’s financial woes are directly caused by Virginia and it’s time for it to stop:

MD could get hit with $800 million energy bill due to VA data center needs

Source: WMAR 2 News Baltimore
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