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Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new data centers in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.

The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations, have urged members of Congress halt the proliferation of energy-hungry data centers, accusing them of causing planet-heating emissions, sucking up vast amounts of water and for exacerbating electricity bill increases that have hit Americans this year.

“The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security,” the letter states, adding that approval of new data centers should be paused until new regulations are put in place.

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[–] tuskyo@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Too bad.

They have the money so we all have to be their bitches.

Nah, just need to break the social taboo around breaking the rich and powerful. I want to commit viking raids apon these profligates with all the bad that comes with.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I’m starting to question what they’re putting in them…

Hard drives are on a 2 year backorder which forced some to move to SSD’s. Which is really only exacerbating the already ridiculous ram shortage. That is in turn also messing with graphics cards.

So at one point or another they’re gonna have to stop even if they otherwise don’t want to…we can only manufacture so much. Unless they really like just building empty structures…

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh man they're totally going to do that. It'll be like China's housing boom but with commercial construction. Anthropic and OpenAI will start building data centers with the promise of putting a data farm inside. Except there will never be enough hardware to fill the space, that won't matter. They'll be able to sell investors on the promise of data dominance.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We have 25 million square feet of data center!*

* Only 2 million actually functional