Microsoft Quietly Drops $1B Ohio Data Center Plan as AI Infrastructure Buildout Strategy Continues to Shift
#Microsoft #AI #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #Azure #CloudComputing #AzureAI #TechNews #CloudStrategy #BigTech
Comme pour Marine, la loi, c'est pour les autres.
Malgré nos (trop rares) lois qui protègent les communes contre l'invasion des projets polluants, le gouvernement a décidé de simplifier l'implantation de data-centers, gourmands en énergie et voraces en eau.
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Du 8 au 11 avril, les député·es examineront en séance publique le projet de loi de « simplification de la vie économique ».
Cette loi fourre-tout, conçue sur mesure pour répondre aux demandes des industriels, contient notamment un article 15 qui permettrait à l’État d’imposer la construction d’immenses data centers aux collectivités locales et à la population.
Pour ne pas laisser les multinationales de la tech s’allier au gouvernement français pour alimenter cette fuite en avant délétère et écocide, La Quadrature du Net et le collectif Le Nuage était sous nos pieds, en lien avec les membres de la coalition Hiatus, appellent à la suppression de l'article 15 et à l’adoption d’un moratoire sur la construction des grands entrepôts à serveurs !
#Trump will direct federal agencies to loosen various restrictions on #coal mining, leasing & exports. He will instruct the #Interior Dept to resume coal leasing on millions of acres of #PublicLands, & he will order the #Energy Dept & other agencies to study whether more coal-fired #power plants can supply #electricity for #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters.
https://www.europesays.com/1976350/ NJ Lawmakers Sound Energy Supply Alarm #BasicGenerationServiceAuction #CapacityAccreditation #ChristineGuhlSadovy #DataCenters #Energy #GeneratorInterconnectionQueue #NewJerseyAssemblyTelecommunicationsAndUtilitiesCommittee #NewJerseyBoardOfPublicUtilities(NJBPU) #PhilMurphy #PJMInterconnectionLLC(PJM)
Complicating matters, #tech companies are approaching multiple #power utility providers …seeking multiple bids for the same project, inflating power demand outlooks….
"What we're seeing is this huge proposed influx of these abstract projects that nobody knows anything about," Jon Gordon, a director at the *clean* #energy trade group, Advanced Energy United, whose members include clean power & large energy users like #DataCenters.
#BigTech's massive #power demands for #DataCenters
#US #electric utilities are fielding massive requests for new power capacity as Big #Tech scours the country for viable locations for new data centers to keep up w/the computing demands of #Al.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Grid #Trump #Broligarchy #Technocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-utilities-grapple-with-big-techs-massive-power-demands-data-centers-2025-04-07/
Du Nord de la France à Jakarta, #Microsoft a bien arrêté plusieurs projets de data centers - https://next.ink/179479/du-nord-de-la-france-a-jakarta-microsoft-a-bien-arrete-plusieurs-projets-de-data-centers/
> Microsoft a récemment arrêté ou reporté certains projets de construction de #datacenters en Indonésie, au Royaume-Uni, en Australie, aux États-Unis et en France. Alors qu'il y a encore quelques mois, la mode était à la construction d'énorme centres pour l'IA, le géant du numérique planifiait déjà de freiner ses projets.
@gerrymcgovern and as much as a "rate structure for data center-scale customers" sounds meaningful, how will it account for all the residential customers cooking up slop?
It isn't free.
Sounds like rate hikes are coming whether we use our own intellect or not. Thanks a heap co-intelligence.
Data centers contain 90% crap data
—@gerrymcgovern
「 We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again. We’re destroying our environment to take 1.9 trillion photos every year. That’s more photos taken in one single year in the 2020s than were taken in the entire 20th century. That more than 200 photos taken for every child, woman and man alive 」
https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.
by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife
Can #datacenters run on #blockchains ?
Do they?
#ixe
Noob
New rates from WE Energies intended to make data centers cover their costs #datacenters #wisconsin #electricity #microsoft #AI #CitizensUtilityBoard #Electricitydemand https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/04/04/new-rates-from-we-energies-intended-to-make-data-centers-cover-their-costs/ @ai6yr
https://www.europesays.com/1967752/ Data Center Campus with Gas Generation Planned for Pa. #CoLocatedLoad #CoalPlantRetirements #DataCenters #GasPrice #GeVernova #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #NaturalGas #PJMInterconnectionLLC(PJM)
Silicon Valley likes to present itself as clean and sustainable, but cloud giants have a very dirty relationship with oil and gas.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with JS Tan to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis, based on his experiences at Microsoft.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/270_the_dirty_alliance_between_tech_and_the_oil_industry_w_js_tan
Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud. Read more at MSN. #Microsoft #AI #DataCenters #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/-wrw9r
Mobilisation pour un moratoire sur les gros #DataCenters!
Par @LaQuadrature | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/la-quadrature-du-net/blog/020425/mobilisation-pour-un-moratoire-sur-les-gros-data-centers?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs
TD Cowen reports Microsoft canceled new data center projects in the US & Europe, cutting ~2GW of capacity, signaling potential AI computing oversupply. #Microsoft #DataCenters #AIDemand #TechNews #CloudComputing #AI #TechIndustry #BusinessNews
https://www.europesays.com/1944918/ Nuclear startup Terrestrial Energy goes public via SPAC, netting $280 million in merger #DataCenters #nuclear #NuclearFission #NuclearPower #ReverseMerger #Spaç