A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters 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.
I wish I could say we’ll be laughing when all of this fails and all those investments dry up like rain in the desert. But that will come with a cripplingly heavy toll for all regular people everywhere. When these DC’s are abandoned, so will they be. We’re already seeing the start of this from people living near these DC’s who no longer have safe access to water, a good night’s sleep or clean air…