Trump and the governors of several US states agreed to push PJM for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would compel technology companies to effectively fund new power plants.
“While a ‘statement of principles’ doesn’t appear to include a legal mandate for PJM to act, pressure from the Trump administration and a bipartisan coalition of PJM states is very likely to motivate a considerable response”
Microsoft has agreed with Indigo Carbon to buy a record 2.85 million soil carbon credits linked to regenerative agriculture in the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/15/tech/microsoft-carbon-credits-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #datacenters #carbon #environment
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Soberania digital é soberania nacional - Le Monde Diplomatique - por deputado Orlando Silva.
"A dependência estrutural é o primeiro nó a ser desatado. Nas economias centrais da OCDE, duas empresas (Amazon e Microsoft) concentram 80% da infraestrutura global de nuvem. Países como o Brasil, sem data centers nacionais ou chips de última geração, recorrem a essas corporações para quase tudo: de pesquisa científica a armazenamento de informações estratégicas de governo. Isso significa que até mesmo dados sensíveis do Estado brasileiro podem estar sob jurisdição norte-americana."
https://diplomatique.org.br/soberania-digital-e-soberania-nacional/
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Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in Michigan township
Microslop has identified itself as the mystery company behind a prospective data center in a part of Michigan where locals have objected to such a development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html
#Microsoft #Microslop #AI #datacenters #technology #Michigan #electricity #WaterResources
Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in Michigan township
Microslop has identified itself as the mystery company behind a prospective data center in a part of Michigan where locals have objected to such a development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html
#Microsoft #Microslop #AI #datacenters #technology #Michigan #electricity #WaterResources
Soberania digital é soberania nacional - Le Monde Diplomatique - por deputado Orlando Silva.
"A dependência estrutural é o primeiro nó a ser desatado. Nas economias centrais da OCDE, duas empresas (Amazon e Microsoft) concentram 80% da infraestrutura global de nuvem. Países como o Brasil, sem data centers nacionais ou chips de última geração, recorrem a essas corporações para quase tudo: de pesquisa científica a armazenamento de informações estratégicas de governo. Isso significa que até mesmo dados sensíveis do Estado brasileiro podem estar sob jurisdição norte-americana."
https://diplomatique.org.br/soberania-digital-e-soberania-nacional/
SoftBank Group is in advanced talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group, a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/29/companies/softbank-digitalbridge-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #digitalbridge #datacenters #investments #ai
The Pentagon and AI giants have a weakness. Both need China’s batteries, badly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/politics/china-battery-reliance-pentagon-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #batteries #china #us #ai #datacenters #tech #electricvehicles
https://prospect.org/2025/12/22/demands-for-data-center-moratoriums-surge/
Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.
#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor
#Starcloud has been in the news for training the first #AI model in #space, but now the Seattle-area startup's CEO is laying out a grander vision that involves gigawatts of space-based #power and billions of dollars. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/starcloud-power-training-ai-space/ #datacenters #orbit
I hope we can (re)gain your trust here.
I don't personally work on this stuff, but I'll try hard to answer any questions you have.
And other than that, I'll get back in my lane, and stick to web platform stuff.
- Jake ( @jaffathecake)
@firefoxwebdevs It's not only about trust. It's also the question how Firefox wants to be part of destroying our climate and water ressources in a time of #climateEmergency and growing #desertification thanks to #datacenters needed by the #AIHype!
Software that contributes to this destruction, even though it could work without it, is not an option for me. If it forces me to use such functions, I consider it even criminal. Firefox/the CEO wants AI.
Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
#HackerNews #Economics #Orbital #Terrestrial #DataCenters #SpaceTech
Igneo Infrastructure Partners and Orix are among those in the next round of bidding for Macquarie Capital’s majority stake in a Dutch hyperscale data center, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/13/orix-dutch-data-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ntt #orix #macquariecapital #igneoinfrastructurepartners #ai #datacenters
SoftBank Group is studying potential acquisitions including data-center operator Switch, in a search for deals that can help it ride the artificial intelligence-fueled boom in digital infrastructure, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/12/companies/softbank-data-center-operator-acquisition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #datacenters #acquisitions #investments #ai
A series of setbacks in Asia’s shift to cleaner energy is keeping coal in play in the top-consuming region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/12/10/energy/asia-high-coal-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #coal #environment #mining #utilities #batteries #renewables #artificialintelligence #datacenters #china #indonesia #india
"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security.” New data centers should be paused until new regulations are put in place.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667
@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut
#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work
Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research
"AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.
Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?
On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no way" these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.
Couching that his napkin math was based on today's costs, "because anything in the future is speculative," Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.
"Okay, that's today's number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that's one company, that's $1.5 trillion of capex," he said.
Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877.html
Datacenters in space aren't going to work
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
#HackerNews #Datacenters #in #space #going #to #work #space #tech #datacenter #challenges #future #technology #space #exploration
