Tracking this story · June 7, 2026 to July 15, 2026
How 8 worldviews covered it across 7 days, exactly as our morning brief ran it at the time. Every citation links to the article it came from.
Latest entry: July 15, 2026 — New York halts new data centers as economists warn AI is coming for jobs
As of late June 2026, about 70 percent of Americans told Gallup they opposed an AI data center being built near them, 75 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of Republicans, and at least 75 projects worth roughly $130 billion had been stalled or blocked in the first three months of the year (Grist, Fortune).
The opposition organized quickly: more than 800 local groups across 49 states were contesting roughly 1,500 planned data centers by late June, with water use, energy use, and electricity prices the most common grievances (Grist, Fortune).
One utility fight ran through the brief's coverage window. A Synapse Energy Economics analysis commissioned by Earthjustice and Environmental Advocates Mississippi estimated that Entergy Mississippi's residential customers had paid $38 million by March 2026 toward infrastructure serving Amazon's data centers, about $10.60 a month per household, on track for $74 million by year's end. Entergy disputes that reading and projects the Amazon investment will leave bills about 16 percent lower by 2030 (Mississippi Today, Earthjustice).
The fight reached the ballot in June 2026: Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his primary after backing the Stratos data center campus near the Great Salt Lake, and Box Elder County commissioners who advanced the project lost theirs (Newsweek). The timeline below preserves each day's coverage exactly as the morning brief documented it.
Where each side stands each worldview's latest read, in its own words · citations link to the articles
Democratic Socialist · Truthout as of Jul 15
“This School District Will Bring a Humanoid Robot Into the Classroom This Fall”
"Bringing it into the school district is contradicting everything we believe." Truthout reports AI's creep into public life through a rural New York district buying a $57,590 humanoid robot, centering a parent's objection. [66]
Center / Nonpartisan · NPR as of Jul 15
“Gov. Hochul orders a pause on data centers in New York for up to a year”
"the first statewide pause in the country." NPR reports the order as a consumer and environmental measure, quoting Hochul that "progress shouldn't arrive with a higher utility bill," and notes 15 states considered moratoriums this year. Fed Chair Warsh, by contrast, calls AI "the most striking feature of the economy right now." [136][88]
Tech / AI · Futurism as of Jul 15
“New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers”
"rampant pollution, alarming water usage rates, and rising electricity prices." Futurism frames the ban as Democrats belatedly capitalizing on a "bipartisan backlash," and separately reports "A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry." [610][615]
Jul 15 · Noahpinion
"I'd like to know exactly what the actions are." Noah Smith declines to sign, arguing "steering" AI toward complementing humans is "basically impossible" because "no one actually knows how a technology will complement or substitute for human labor," and citing flat employment data. [617]
Jul 15 · YouTube: The Young Turks
"We Must Act Now." Cenk Uygur reads the economists' statement as vindication of alarm, warning of "an enormous amount of unemployment" and noting "white collar payrolls have been contracting now for years." [78]
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The first statewide data-center ban lands the same week 200 economists say "act now" on AI's economic shock.
Context The legislature's own one-year moratorium bill, passed in June 2026 and not yet signed by Hochul, would have applied to data centers as small as 20 megawatts, twice as broad as the governor's 50-megawatt executive order threshold (Stateline).
Center / Nonpartisan · NPR · “Gov. Hochul orders a pause on data centers in New York for up to a year”
"the first statewide pause in the country." NPR reports the order as a consumer and environmental measure, quoting Hochul that "progress shouldn't arrive with a higher utility bill," and notes 15 states considered moratoriums this year. Fed Chair Warsh, by contrast, calls AI "the most striking feature of the economy right now." [136][88]
Tech / AI · YouTube: The Young Turks · “Experts Give URGENT WARNING About AI”
"We Must Act Now." Cenk Uygur reads the economists' statement as vindication of alarm, warning of "an enormous amount of unemployment" and noting "white collar payrolls have been contracting now for years." [78]
Tech / AI · Noahpinion · “Why I didn't sign the 'We Must Act Now' statement (yet)”
"I'd like to know exactly what the actions are." Noah Smith declines to sign, arguing "steering" AI toward complementing humans is "basically impossible" because "no one actually knows how a technology will complement or substitute for human labor," and citing flat employment data. [617]
Tech / AI · Futurism · “New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers”
"rampant pollution, alarming water usage rates, and rising electricity prices." Futurism frames the ban as Democrats belatedly capitalizing on a "bipartisan backlash," and separately reports "A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry." [610][615]
Democratic Socialist · Truthout · “This School District Will Bring a Humanoid Robot Into the Classroom This Fall”
"Bringing it into the school district is contradicting everything we believe." Truthout reports AI's creep into public life through a rural New York district buying a $57,590 humanoid robot, centering a parent's objection. [66]
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Where each side ended this chapter each worldview's latest read, in its own words · citations link to the articles
Democratic Socialist · Truthdig as of Jun 20
“The Data Center Backlash Uniting America”
[37] "Uniting America" is Truthdig's frame: the same local concerns -- water, power, land use, community input -- are showing up in liberal and conservative communities alike. The analysis treats this as an underreported political realignment: community sovereignty against corporate infrastructure is not a left issue, it is a neighborhood issue. The implicit argument is that left organizing should meet the right at this intersection. [37]
MAGA / Populist Right · Fox News as of Jun 20
“Kevin O'Leary warns China is winning the AI race because U.S. states are slowing data center production”
[301] "China is winning" -- Fox/O'Leary frames local data center resistance as a national security failure. The people blocking data centers are, by this logic, helping Beijing. The framing converts a local land-use fight into a great-power competition story. The implication: communities that resist should be overridden by federal or economic necessity. [301][276]
Tech / AI · TechCrunch as of Jun 20
“Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?”
[497] TechCrunch asks an unusual question: the US government's export restrictions on Anthropic (preventing certain foreign government use) may be making Anthropic more attractive to safety-conscious buyers who read the ban as validation that the model is powerful enough to restrict. The optimist / regulatory axis within Tech/AI: export controls can function as accidental marketing. [497]
Jun 20 · Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
[481] Zitron's "Silicon Valley Bubble" series argues the AI industry's financial claims do not survive contact with revenue reality. The buildout -- the data centers communities are resisting -- is being funded by investor capital, not customer demand. If the bubble pops, the communities that resisted will have saved themselves; the ones that approved the construction will be left with massive infrastructure and no tenants. The pessimist case is not that AI is bad but that the investment is unsupported. [481][482]
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Town halls saying no to AI data centers look the same in Virginia as in Vermont: the faces at the microphone are the same whether it is a red county or a blue one -- which is exactly what neither the industry nor its critics expected.
Democratic Socialist · Truthdig · “The Data Center Backlash Uniting America”
[37] "Uniting America" is Truthdig's frame: the same local concerns -- water, power, land use, community input -- are showing up in liberal and conservative communities alike. The analysis treats this as an underreported political realignment: community sovereignty against corporate infrastructure is not a left issue, it is a neighborhood issue. The implicit argument is that left organizing should meet the right at this intersection. [37]
MAGA / Populist Right · Fox News · “Kevin O'Leary warns China is winning the AI race because U.S. states are slowing data center production”
[301] "China is winning" -- Fox/O'Leary frames local data center resistance as a national security failure. The people blocking data centers are, by this logic, helping Beijing. The framing converts a local land-use fight into a great-power competition story. The implication: communities that resist should be overridden by federal or economic necessity. [301][276]
Tech / AI · Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · “Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 2)”
[481] Zitron's "Silicon Valley Bubble" series argues the AI industry's financial claims do not survive contact with revenue reality. The buildout -- the data centers communities are resisting -- is being funded by investor capital, not customer demand. If the bubble pops, the communities that resisted will have saved themselves; the ones that approved the construction will be left with massive infrastructure and no tenants. The pessimist case is not that AI is bad but that the investment is unsupported. [481][482]
Tech / AI · TechCrunch · “Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?”
[497] TechCrunch asks an unusual question: the US government's export restrictions on Anthropic (preventing certain foreign government use) may be making Anthropic more attractive to safety-conscious buyers who read the ban as validation that the model is powerful enough to restrict. The optimist / regulatory axis within Tech/AI: export controls can function as accidental marketing. [497]
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Where each side ended this chapter each worldview's latest read, in its own words · citations link to the articles
Communist / Far-Left · CounterPunch as of Jun 11
“The Battle of Socorro, New Mexico and the Uprising Against AI Data Centers”
"Don't Sacrifice Us Again" is the protest poster, beside a painted mushroom cloud [12]. CounterPunch frames the fight as a multiracial, cross-class revolt, "rednecks and longhairs, techies and townies," against "creeping oligarchy," water theft, and the reopening of nuclear-colonial wounds. Agency sits with an organized community against a venture-capital intruder.
Jun 10 · Counterpunch
"Uprising against AI data centers" is the frame [1]. Counterpunch reads the project as the latest extractive industry imposed on Hispanic and Indigenous communities in the Southwest — water, depleted uranium, and the Very Large Array all at stake. The category is class, land, and ecological sacrifice.
Jun 7 · CounterPunch
[6] CounterPunch frames data centers as ecological predation under capitalism, "a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs," with Bezos "reaping the spoils" atop bulldozed Joshua tree habitat. The villain is capital.
Democratic Socialist · YouTube: More Perfect Union as of Jun 10
“I Took AOC to Deep Trump Country. They Agreed On One Thing.”
"Put it in your backyard" is what the Georgia residents tell the camera [37]. More Perfect Union films people with cracked foundations and sediment in their tap water next to a Meta facility — some who call AOC "very fringe left" — agreeing with her that the build-out has to pause. The frame is explicit: "This is not a party issue. This is a people issue." It is the cross-class revolt shown rather than asserted, and it is the day's clearest case of the base running ahead of both parties' desks.
Jun 7 · The Intercept
[89] The Intercept frames the buildout's politics through civil liberties, documenting police treating "legitimate, popular political concerns" as "a breeding ground for something more sinister" and tying it to fusion centers' history of surveilling BLM and pipeline protesters.
Liberal Mainstream · The Guardian as of Jun 15
“A Georgia datacenter threatens local rivers. Residents are joining a national push to stop it”
[202] The Guardian foregrounds the environmental threat -- rivers, water supply, ecological impact -- and connects the specific Coweta County case to a national pattern. The frame is environmental harm, and the protagonists are residents rather than the organizing women specifically. The Guardian locates this in the context of a national movement, giving it more political scale than The 19th's community-focused frame. [202]
Establishment / Center-Right · First Things as of Jun 10
“The American Covenant's Answer to AI”
First Things asks a different question entirely [83]: what AI does to the soul and to human dignity. Its implicit argument is that the optimist-vs-pessimist axis the tech press fights on is the wrong axis — a theological-civic register absent from everyone else's coverage.
MAGA / Populist Right · Breitbart as of Jun 10
“'Nightmare Scenario': Country Star Brad Paisley Calls on Fans to Help Block AI Data Center Near Nashville Zoo”
"Nightmare scenario" comes from Paisley himself [123]. Breitbart frames it as a celebrity-led, quality-of-life revolt — zoo, neighborhood, country fans — with the subtext that coastal capital is imposing AI on Tennessee suburbs. That subtext nearly mirrors Counterpunch's class frame in a different idiom.
Identity · The 19th as of Jun 15
“Meet the women leading the people-powered push against data centers”
[685] "People-powered" is The 19th's framing, and the emphasis is on community agency rather than technology critique. The women interviewed cross party lines -- the shared stake is local, not ideological: water, power, noise, land use. The piece is about civic capacity as much as data center opposition. The AI dimension is present but secondary; the women's organizing capacity is the story. [685]
Jun 11 · The 19th
"People power is still on our side" closes the piece [520]. The 19th reads the movement through who is leading it and who is harmed: women fighting for "their children's health," Black communities siting these plants atop old industrial burdens, an NAACP environmental-justice framework. The lens is community impact and the gendered, racialized distribution of risk.
Tech / AI · Wired as of Jun 15
“The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire”
[813] Wired approaches the same concerns from a policy and regulatory frame: a federal energy-efficiency standard for data centers is expiring without renewal, removing a backstop that community organizers had hoped might give them leverage in local fights. The regulatory gap is Wired's key fact. The human story -- the women, the communities -- is absent from Wired's frame. [813]
Jun 12 · 404 Media
"You are in a room full of people who care!" 404 Media covers the Madison County meeting as a civic participation story: a public official uses procedural authority to limit collective dissent on a surveillance contract. Flock's automated license plate readers scan car locations continuously; the county never held open input on whether to deploy them. The commissioner's response treats community objection as a logistical inconvenience. [498]
Jun 12 · 404 Media
"A black box." 404 Media documents that Amazon data center costs are hidden behind utility NDAs, that residential customers absorb a 7% electricity rate increase with no separate disclosure, and that this is happening at a moment of concurrent economic stress from gas prices and federal benefit cuts. The article connects AI opacity claims (companies say their models are mysterious black boxes) to the opacity of their infrastructure contracting. The mechanism: a regulated monopoly socializes corporate capital costs, privatizes the profit. [501]
Jun 12 · 404 Media
"We all hate this obviously." 404 Media documents what Amazon calls a battery conservation feature that drivers experience as unsafe in summer heat. The piece uses drivers' own forum language alongside Amazon's corporate response to show the gap between the company's characterization and the workers' daily experience. The framing: a software update that makes work more physically dangerous is deployed without worker input and defended with technical language that obscures the labor impact. [500]
Jun 11 · TechCrunch
"There's a lot of potential for this market" is GM's battery chief, and the data-center boom is the demand driver [636]. TechCrunch frames the same triple-in-demand buildout the activists are fighting as a commercial race, sodium-ion versus lithium, supply-chain resilience, market share. The community opposition that dominates the other two pieces is invisible here.
Jun 10 · WIRED
WIRED runs it as a straight infrastructure curiosity [276]: the engineering marvel framing, neither boosting nor doom — a reminder that "Tech / AI" also still covers the machine as a machine.
Jun 10 · Futurism
"Rapidly losing the ability to read" extends the critique into education [251]: Futurism frames AI not as productivity but as cognitive cost, the harm-ledger answer to TechCrunch's opportunity-ledger.
Jun 10 · 404 Media
"Meme about how bad their AI is" is the frame [248]: the people building the thing don't think it works. 404 Media turns the skeptical eye inward, onto the workers, where the optimist coverage looks outward at the opportunity.
Jun 10 · TechCrunch
The Reliance deal is framed as obvious next-step expansion [261]: TechCrunch treats global build-out as momentum, with Reliance as both customer and infrastructure partner — a structural alignment with no US-hyperscaler equivalent.
Jun 10 · TechCrunch
"To power the AI craze" treats the energy crunch as a market to win [259]. TechCrunch profiles founders building solar-and-battery capacity for compute — the build-it answer made concrete.
Jun 10 · TechCrunch
"Everyone's an energy company" is the optimist thesis [257]: the binding constraint on AI is power, so the answer is to build, and the category is opportunity, not extraction.
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The anti-capitalist left and the AI-skeptic commentariat have started writing the same exposé from opposite ends of the map.
Democratic Socialist · The Intercept · “Philly Cops...Tracking...Critical of AI”
[89] The Intercept frames the buildout's politics through civil liberties, documenting police treating "legitimate, popular political concerns" as "a breeding ground for something more sinister" and tying it to fusion centers' history of surveilling BLM and pipeline protesters.
Communist / Far-Left · CounterPunch · “Vampire Planet”
[6] CounterPunch frames data centers as ecological predation under capitalism, "a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs," with Bezos "reaping the spoils" atop bulldozed Joshua tree habitat. The villain is capital.
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Counterpunch reports from Socorro and Breitbart reports from Nashville, and More Perfect Union drove AOC into deep-Trump Georgia to film both camps agreeing: slow the data centers down.
Communist / Far-Left · Counterpunch · “The Battle of Socorro, New Mexico and the Uprising Against AI Data Centers”
"Uprising against AI data centers" is the frame [1]. Counterpunch reads the project as the latest extractive industry imposed on Hispanic and Indigenous communities in the Southwest — water, depleted uranium, and the Very Large Array all at stake. The category is class, land, and ecological sacrifice.
Democratic Socialist · YouTube: More Perfect Union · “I Took AOC to Deep Trump Country. They Agreed On One Thing.”
"Put it in your backyard" is what the Georgia residents tell the camera [37]. More Perfect Union films people with cracked foundations and sediment in their tap water next to a Meta facility — some who call AOC "very fringe left" — agreeing with her that the build-out has to pause. The frame is explicit: "This is not a party issue. This is a people issue." It is the cross-class revolt shown rather than asserted, and it is the day's clearest case of the base running ahead of both parties' desks.
MAGA / Populist Right · Breitbart · “'Nightmare Scenario': Country Star Brad Paisley Calls on Fans to Help Block AI Data Center Near Nashville Zoo”
"Nightmare scenario" comes from Paisley himself [123]. Breitbart frames it as a celebrity-led, quality-of-life revolt — zoo, neighborhood, country fans — with the subtext that coastal capital is imposing AI on Tennessee suburbs. That subtext nearly mirrors Counterpunch's class frame in a different idiom.
Establishment / Center-Right · First Things · “The American Covenant's Answer to AI”
First Things asks a different question entirely [83]: what AI does to the soul and to human dignity. Its implicit argument is that the optimist-vs-pessimist axis the tech press fights on is the wrong axis — a theological-civic register absent from everyone else's coverage.
Tech / AI · TechCrunch · “Why everyone's an energy company now”
"Everyone's an energy company" is the optimist thesis [257]: the binding constraint on AI is power, so the answer is to build, and the category is opportunity, not extraction.
Tech / AI · TechCrunch · “Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze”
"To power the AI craze" treats the energy crunch as a market to win [259]. TechCrunch profiles founders building solar-and-battery capacity for compute — the build-it answer made concrete.
Tech / AI · TechCrunch · “Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance”
The Reliance deal is framed as obvious next-step expansion [261]: TechCrunch treats global build-out as momentum, with Reliance as both customer and infrastructure partner — a structural alignment with no US-hyperscaler equivalent.
Tech / AI · 404 Media · “Podcast: Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is”
"Meme about how bad their AI is" is the frame [248]: the people building the thing don't think it works. 404 Media turns the skeptical eye inward, onto the workers, where the optimist coverage looks outward at the opportunity.
Tech / AI · Futurism · “College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read”
"Rapidly losing the ability to read" extends the critique into education [251]: Futurism frames AI not as productivity but as cognitive cost, the harm-ledger answer to TechCrunch's opportunity-ledger.
Tech / AI · WIRED · “China Opens World's First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center”
WIRED runs it as a straight infrastructure curiosity [276]: the engineering marvel framing, neither boosting nor doom — a reminder that "Tech / AI" also still covers the machine as a machine.
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Socorro ranchers and NAACP organizers are fighting the identical buildout from opposite ends of the spectrum, and winning.
Communist / Far-Left · CounterPunch · “The Battle of Socorro, New Mexico and the Uprising Against AI Data Centers”
"Don't Sacrifice Us Again" is the protest poster, beside a painted mushroom cloud [12]. CounterPunch frames the fight as a multiracial, cross-class revolt, "rednecks and longhairs, techies and townies," against "creeping oligarchy," water theft, and the reopening of nuclear-colonial wounds. Agency sits with an organized community against a venture-capital intruder.
Identity · The 19th · “Meet the women leading the people-powered push against data centers”
"People power is still on our side" closes the piece [520]. The 19th reads the movement through who is leading it and who is harmed: women fighting for "their children's health," Black communities siting these plants atop old industrial burdens, an NAACP environmental-justice framework. The lens is community impact and the gendered, racialized distribution of risk.
Tech / AI · TechCrunch · “Everyone wants a piece of Tesla's battery business”
"There's a lot of potential for this market" is GM's battery chief, and the data-center boom is the demand driver [636]. TechCrunch frames the same triple-in-demand buildout the activists are fighting as a commercial race, sodium-ion versus lithium, supply-chain resilience, market share. The community opposition that dominates the other two pieces is invisible here.
Published nothing that day: Center / Nonpartisan · Establishment / Center-Right · MAGA / Populist Right · Religious Right · the AI-power question surfaces elsewhere as theology and bubble math)
The residents of Mississippi subsidizing Amazon data centers didn't vote for it, can't find it on their bill, and have no legal mechanism to opt out.
Tech / AI · 404 Media · “Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers' AC During Dangerous Summer Heat”
"We all hate this obviously." 404 Media documents what Amazon calls a battery conservation feature that drivers experience as unsafe in summer heat. The piece uses drivers' own forum language alongside Amazon's corporate response to show the gap between the company's characterization and the workers' daily experience. The framing: a software update that makes work more physically dangerous is deployed without worker input and defended with technical language that obscures the labor impact. [500]
Tech / AI · 404 Media · “Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests”
"A black box." 404 Media documents that Amazon data center costs are hidden behind utility NDAs, that residential customers absorb a 7% electricity rate increase with no separate disclosure, and that this is happening at a moment of concurrent economic stress from gas prices and federal benefit cuts. The article connects AI opacity claims (companies say their models are mysterious black boxes) to the opacity of their infrastructure contracting. The mechanism: a regulated monopoly socializes corporate capital costs, privatizes the profit. [501]
Tech / AI · 404 Media · “'You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight'”
"You are in a room full of people who care!" 404 Media covers the Madison County meeting as a civic participation story: a public official uses procedural authority to limit collective dissent on a surveillance contract. Flock's automated license plate readers scan car locations continuously; the county never held open input on whether to deploy them. The commissioner's response treats community objection as a logistical inconvenience. [498]
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Small towns from Georgia to Iowa are fighting data center buildouts over water and power, and the women leading those fights are finding that the politics don't map onto the left-right line.
Identity · The 19th · “Meet the women leading the people-powered push against data centers”
[685] "People-powered" is The 19th's framing, and the emphasis is on community agency rather than technology critique. The women interviewed cross party lines -- the shared stake is local, not ideological: water, power, noise, land use. The piece is about civic capacity as much as data center opposition. The AI dimension is present but secondary; the women's organizing capacity is the story. [685]
Liberal Mainstream · The Guardian · “A Georgia datacenter threatens local rivers. Residents are joining a national push to stop it”
[202] The Guardian foregrounds the environmental threat -- rivers, water supply, ecological impact -- and connects the specific Coweta County case to a national pattern. The frame is environmental harm, and the protagonists are residents rather than the organizing women specifically. The Guardian locates this in the context of a national movement, giving it more political scale than The 19th's community-focused frame. [202]
Tech / AI · Wired · “The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire”
[813] Wired approaches the same concerns from a policy and regulatory frame: a federal energy-efficiency standard for data centers is expiring without renewal, removing a backstop that community organizers had hoped might give them leverage in local fights. The regulatory gap is Wired's key fact. The human story -- the women, the communities -- is absent from Wired's frame. [813]
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Open Jun 12 Ben Havumaki · via 404 Media
“We know as a matter of fact that Entergy has made far more investments in service of data centers already and that the total..will be far in excess of that amount”
Entergy has made far more infrastructure investments for data centers than the $74 million estimate accounts for, with total costs far exceeding that figure.
Checkable: when full Entergy cost data is released
Last checked Aug 5 · still open
Printed by 404 Media · Jun 12
Open Jun 7 CounterPunch Communist / Far-Left
“At the current pace, data centers globally will require $1 trillion in annual infrastructure investment by the end of the decade”
Global data center infrastructure investment will reach $1 trillion annually by decade's end
Checkable: by end of decade
Last checked Aug 5 · still open
Printed by CounterPunch · Jun 7
Open Jun 7 UN · via CounterPunch Communist / Far-Left
“The UN just published a study stating that by 2030, data centers will account for 3% of the world's total energy use, a total of 935 terawatt-hours of electricity, emitting 440 million tons of carbon dioxide”
UN study projects data centers will represent 3% of world energy consumption and emit 440 million metric tons of CO2 by 2030
Checkable: by 2030
Last checked Aug 5 · still open
Printed by CounterPunch · Jun 7
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