Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the consequences of opposition as lost investment in $$, and that drives how opposition is reported: — www.wired.com/story/the-da... [images] @bowiegrrl : Yay! AI is a scam to enrich billionaires Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau.com : If I had to predict a high-impact story that is flying under the radar now but will play a big role in next year's major federal and state elections in the U.S., it'll be electricity prices and data centers. Easy-to-understand affordability and corruption story. Paresh Dave / @peard33 : And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da... Emily Johnston / @enjohnston : Hallelujah. — “Opposition blocked or delayed $98 bn in projects from March to June of 2025 alone—8 projects, including two in IA and KY, were blocked in those 3 months, while 9 were delayed...a $17 bn development [near Atlanta], was put on hold...following significant pushback from local residents.” Michiel van Hulten / @michielvanhulten.eu : This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed. — www.wired.com/story/the-da... Sarah Posner / @sarahposner : The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived — www.wired.com/story/the-da... Molly Taft / @mollytaft.com : NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana: Mastodon: Gerry McGovern / @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green : The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived — “Residents have complained for years about a series of rate hikes from the PSC. But during Hubbard's campaigning, he noticed another topic coming up again and again with his future constituents.” — https://www.wired.com/... Forums: r/technology : The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived: A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year. Beehaw : The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against “AI” data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere li…
This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the consequences of opposition as lost investment in $$, and that drives how opposition is reported: — www.wired.com/story/the-da.…
If I had to predict a high-impact story that is flying under the radar now but will play a big role in next year's major federal and state elections in the U.S., it'll be electricity prices and data centers. Easy-to-understand affordability and corruption story.
Hallelujah. — “Opposition blocked or delayed $98 bn in projects from March to June of 2025 alone—8 projects, including two in IA and KY, were blocked in those 3 months, while 9 were delayed...a $17 bn development [near Atlanta], was put on hold...following significant pushback …
This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed. — www.wired.com/story/the-da...
NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived — “Residents have complained for years about a series of rate hikes from the PSC. But during Hubbard's campaigning, he noticed another topic coming up again and again with his future constituents.” — https://www.wired.com/...