Data Centers

The Data Center Debate heats up:

AI Labs Look To Space For Their Data Center Needs | The Daily Caller By Sean Moran

(2) @amuse on X: "The Data Center Panic Is Built on Myths and Americans Are Falling for Them Hook, Line, and Sinker" / X

Data Center Tax Break Under Fire - The Daily Signal By Rich Tucker

X Uncovers a Massive Chinese Bot Farm Pushing Anti-Data Center Propaganda By Dmitri Bolt

STEPHEN MOORE: Data centers are creating the blue-collar jobs America needs | Fox News

(2) Sam Lyman on X: "Understand that the anti-data center movement is, at its core, a deindustrialization movement. So of course China is pushing it. The US is manufacturing, at scale, the most valuable resource in the modern economy: artificial intelligence. But already, the NIMBY/anti-AI https://t.co/2iJjgDPQeW" / X

Charles Payne: AI data centers are a chance to revitalize towns, states | Fox Business Video By Charles Payne

Patrick Ruffini on X: "Voters are open to making a deal on data centers. What kind of deal doesn't even matter. https://t.co/nvgdVLSS12" / X

Truckers are finally making real money again, and AI is a big reason why - MarketWatch By Claudia Assis

America's data center revolt is getting a boost from China-linked bots By Josephine Walker

Opposition To Data Centers Isn't What The Tech Right Thinks It Is By John Daniel Davidson

(4) Crémieux on X: "Under the guise of making data centers "pay their fair share", Oregon has increased their electric rates and cut the rates consumers pay. The data centers are still happy to pay, and consumers are happy to get a bill cut. Close enough to a win-win! https://t.co/wdpCVWP2lT" / X

NDAs are hiding data center deals, drawing ire from locals — and attention from lawmakers By Drew Hawkins

(6) stephen balaban on X: "100% Agree @GavinSBaker. Now, I'm going to debunk every single piece of mis-information about data centers that I've ever seen online: > DISINFORMATION: Data centers use a lot of water. FACT: Most AI data centers are closed loop dry cooler design that barely consume any water" / X

Opposition to Data Centers Is Self-Destructive | National Review By The Editors

When AI Starts Saying ‘No.’ - by Sharyl Attkisson

Virginia county's AI data center addiction By Jessica Wong

(2) @amuse on X: "DATA CENTERS: There is a myth that AI servers are somehow more dangerous than normal servers. We are told they use more power and create more heat. The reality is the opposite. For example, Dell's PowerEdge R660, designed for web, database, VMs, or storage, uses MORE power per U https://t.co/mNXpvRhHSK" / X

Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread | RealClearPolitics By Brendan Steinhauser

Steve Everley on X: "Banning data centers may quickly become a political loser. Labor unions are “threatening to withhold support of candidates opposing the data-center projects.” https://t.co/IIYDJ9XuHS" / X

Top U.S. States for AI Data Centers And Infrastructure Growth By Matt Swayne

Trump wants Americans to embrace artificial intelligence, data centers | Fox Business By James Cirrone

(4) Crémieux on X: "In Louisiana, data center deals are letting them freeze customer bills and expand energy production so the grid can be more reliable and cleaner. Thanks, data centers! https://t.co/OCBOjJITvD" / X

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment - POLITICO By Gabby Miller & Owen Dahlkamp

Fetterman rejects data center and AI 'doomsdaying' after Shapiro executive order By Carter Schroppe

Data centers are drinking more water, but overall water use in Virginia has gone down anyway. Here are the numbers. - Cardinal News By Dwayne Yancey

Outrunning Democracy - Richard Hanania's Newsletter Why the anti-data center movement will lose

The thousand-dollar line • Virginia Mercury By Tommy Turner

Data center backlash is preventing cities from learning how to handle them - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Abi Olvera

The AI Land and Water Panic Is Wrong - Human Progress By Marian L. Tupy

Everyone is making a U-turn on data centers as public support craters - POLITICO By Andrew Howard

A Guy on X Striving to be the VA Change Agent on X: "👉People act like data centers are uniquely draining America’s water. - U.S. golf courses used roughly 530 billion gallons. - U.S. data centers’ direct water consumption in 2023 was about 17.4 billion gallons, with projections rising into the tens of billions in the coming" / X

Why No One Trusts Data Centers and Flock Cameras By Erick Erickson

Data center backlash could threaten US AI boom | Fox News Video The Ingrahm Angle with Lydia Moynihan

Rapid Response 47 on X: ".@POTUS on data centers: "If you pick the right location, what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes. The data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid." https://t.co/RgzmWT5kio" / X

GOP gives candidates room to break on data centers By Brett Hall

(5) @amuse on X: "DATA CENTERS: Nancy Pelosi's handpicked successor is pushing the Chinese-backed data-center-ban narrative. She wants to slow down American AI development, allowing China to beat the US in the AI race. https://t.co/Xs5e82UZFW" / X

I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices By Cremieux Recueil

(1) Smirkley on X: "Do datacenters or Democrats make electricity more expensive? Home electricity price, pop weighted. Data center capacity per resident is negatively correlated: r = -0.37. Democrat control of state gov is positively correlated: r = +0.70 https://t.co/pklUsrlirK" / X

I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers By Andy Masley: It’s probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It’s about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities where they’re built, many of which are wrong.

(1) Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy on X: "VIRGINIA IS FOR NUCLEAR ❤️: North Anna Power Station’s two reactors generate more than 1,800 megawatts of electricity — enough to power around 450,000 Virginia homes. Unit 2 first connected to the grid on this day back in 1980. https://t.co/yvI2HKoJR2" / X

Data Center NIMBYs Are Killing $1 Trillion in AI Infrastructure | Garry's List By Garry Tan

City Journal on X: "Texas has more planned data-center capacity than any other state by far. ERCOT says it is considering more than 474 gigawatts of grid-connection requests from large users—more than five times its all-time peak demand, and nearly all of it coming from proposed data centers. https://t.co/PPQmhmNp9E" / X

(3) X Freeze on X: "SpaceX’s space data center idea is actually much simpler than most people imagine A data center sounds like this massive complicated building full of wires and boxes But when you strip everything away and it basically comes down to chips, power and cooling The chips themselves" / X

Data Center Madness Isn’t About AI - Cremieux Recueil

Virginia is developing a piecemeal data center moratorium. The potential impacts are complicated. - Cardinal News By Dwayne Yancey

U.Va.’s planned data center expands $30 million amid statewide debate over energy use - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper By Jaylynn Perez

I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices By Cremieux

As Va. officials weigh data center pushback, report details industry’s public service funding • Virginia Mercury By Charlotte Rene Woods & Shannon Heckt

(1) Rich Lowry on X: "“Data centers represent the best opportunity in generations for blue-collar workers to attain a portion of the American dream. A decade ago, members of my union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26, in the Washington, D.C., region, worked about 14 million" / X

PJM Eyes Incentives for Data Centers to Supply Their Own Power | News | loudounnow.com By Hanna Pampaloni

People Say They Dislike Data Centers, but How Much Do They Really Know about Them? – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis Jr.

For politicians from Ohio to Texas, Virginia to California, red to blue, data centers are the new ‘us vs. them’ fight | CNN Politics By Inside Politics

(1) Stu Smith on X: "It’s the Week of Action Against ALPRs, so I put together a collage of flyers from across the nation. The groups behind it are largely the usual suspects of the abolitionist left, from DSA and PSL chapters to local bail funds, CAIR affiliates, and other activist groups. https://t.co/zyfG3CguTX" / X

The Mid-Atlantic's electric grid operator is taking steps to rein in data center demand By Katherine Hafner

Ellwood Thompson's parent company acquired by data center owner By David M. Poole

General Assembly launches effort to study tax exemptions, consumption tax for data centers - Cardinal News By Elizabeth Beyer

Critics challenge Fairfax County police use of AI-powered license plate cameras - WTOP News By Gigi Barnett

I Went to the Data Center Town Hall at Studio Two Three - RVA Mag By R. Anthony Harris

(5) Crémieux on X: "Trump's home, Palm Beach County, has 12 operating data centers and 3 data centers in various stages of construction. The national median is 0. The national average is just over 1. Adjacent counties average 2. Why don't people grasp that rich places have more data centers? https://t.co/RL8CVyU9VL" / X

Chesterfield Board indicates it won’t approve any more data centers in the county By Eleanor Shaw

GOP Candidate Leverages Data Center Backlash in Wisconsin By Robert R. Bluey

Guest Column: Are data centers a FOIA tipping point? | Headlines | insidenova.com By Megan Rhyne

Chesapeake moves to restrict data center development, Virginia Beach presses pause By Toby Cox & John-Henry Doucette

As some states restrict AI data centers, critics call PA’s new standards ‘quixotically foolish’ - Heartlander News By Audrey Steb

Pittsylvania County OKs data center tax rate By Charles Wilborn

Texas has now surpassed Virginia for data center construction | KXAN Austin By Justin Sayers

Warren County Supervisor charged with assault following altercation after data center hearing | FOX 5 DC By Tom Fitzgerald

Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 on X: "People are about twice as likely to approve of **coal plants** being built nearby as opposed to data centers. Coal plants use more water and pollute more. They create comparable noise pollution. There's no way this makes sense outside a media panic. https://t.co/ZDG7SfU6BQ" / X