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Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas - Inside Climate News Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, buildin...

The demand for data centers is creating an insatiable appetite for energy where we are sacrificing far more than we realize to the AI gods.

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Yikes

Arlington restaurant openings could be slowing down, state data suggests | ARLnow.com A slowdown in new restaurant openings could be on the horizon in Arlington. While dozens of new eateries remain on track to open over the next few months, one data source suggests that some restaurateurs...

Arlington restaurant openings could be slowing down, state data suggests

www.arlnow.com/2025/06/02/s...

I’ve left the Virginia @sierraclub.org political committee with my last endorsement being @abigailspanberger.com. Proud of all the work we’ve accomplished over the years.

I really need to post more here…..

The Treehouse: May 2025 Newsletter - Gabriel Homes Dive into the May 2025 edition of our monthly newsletter, The Treehouse! This month's edition centers on Mother's Day...

New newsletter from Gabriel Homes - independent living for special needs adults in Farfax. Proud to have joined the board this past month!

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Pope Francis Encyclical And Climate Change | Catholic Climate Covenant We’re All Part of God’s Plan(et) is a national Laudato Si’ awareness and engagement campaign to educate and inspire U.S. Catholics to more fully embrace and act upon the teachings of Laudato Si’.

The environmental Pope.

catholicclimatecovenant.org/encyclical/

Customers could end up paying for data centers' energy costs in the absence of reform: Experts Regulation in the utilities sector and improved grid infrastructure are needed to address data center energy-related pricing and service delivery concerns.

Utilities can’t put it on their customers for that much longer.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/...

Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goals record by scoring his 895th Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky’s record for the most goals in NHL history by scoring the 895th of his career.

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Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attri...

Microsoft abandoning data center projects. 👀

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Virginia narrowly avoided power cuts when 60 data centers dropped off the grid at once Energy grid regulator reveals near-miss last summer

Data centers narrowly avoid taking down the grid.

https://
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/virginia-narrowly-avoided-power-cuts-when-60-data-centers-dropped-off-the-grid-at-once/

Vote NO on the government funding bill

Amazon aims to develop a data center in "each county between Northern Virginia and Richmond" Cloud giant planning mass Virginia sprawl?

The Commonwealth of Data Centers

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...

I think it’s resounding defeat in the house says differently. Dan Storck also doesn’t represent Hunter Mill district which is where fucking Tyson’s is.

Oracle Billionaire Encourages World Leaders to Funnel All of Their Data to AI (and Maybe His Data Centers) The co-founder of Oracle has made it known that he wants to usher in a new era of automated surveillance.

How convenient.

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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots "Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

Tools to fight back but also increasing compute workload.

www.404media.co/developer-cr...

Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google

The secret that isn’t so secret anymore.

www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/01/...

Microsoft slams the brakes on $3.3 billion data center — reportedly set to foster development of OpenAI's supercomputer The company stated the pause might last for months as it evaluates the scope and recent technological changes.

Should pump the breaks even more.

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...

Freaking snow already!

Unfortunately par for the course for both parties in Virginia. Lucrative are the incentives but at the end of the day it’s Virginians footing the increasing energy bills and our state footing the impacts to our landscape and environment.

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Citizens United has absolutely destroyed us and whatever future we can carve out

Quit twitter! LFG!

Phoenix, Arizona, to clamp down on data centers Cites constraints on land and power demand, lack of jobs, and noise concerns

There comes a point where local officials have to govern and not just take in all the surface benefits these facilities provide

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/phoe...

Things are getting rather cartoonish in America

Virginia can't keep up with unconstrained data center growth, report warns Data center growth in Virginia could mean billions in energy costs if it isn’t reigned in — and residents would likely pay higher utility bills to meet those power demands, an in-depth report found.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

Cohere to build ‘multibillion-dollar’ data centre in Canada The company will partner with AI cloud platform CoreWeave to advance the AI data centre project.

AI and data centers - the beginning of a never ending relationship that will destroy our planet while ironically maybe help save it?

finance.yahoo.com/news/cohere-...

xAI targets one million GPUs for Colossus supercomputer in Memphis Massive expansion of xAI's Memphis data center planned

Bigger and bigger.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/xai-...

Harkening again on the delicate balance to both be welcoming to business but also having to deal with the most powerful and wealthy corporations ever in existence essentially wanting to pay nothing in local taxes while destroying natural landscapes and developing with ‘by right’ zoning.

China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions China has announced a ban on exports to the United States of gallium, germanium and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications.

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County will spend nearly $500,000 more to fight data center lawsuits Some of the biggest tech companies in the world — including Microsoft and Amazon — are suing Prince William County over their property tax bills.

Essential funds going to fighting the prevalence and influence big tech has in our communities instead of going to schools, roads and rail.

www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/county-...