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California
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

AI Boom Leads To Increased Concerns Of Environmental Impacts Of Data Centers | KQED

California pursued AI laws emphasizing safety transparency, a public CalCompute cloud, and data-center reporting of energy and water use to address environmental impacts.
US politics
fromFortune
1 month ago

Huge AI data centers are turning local elections into fights over the future of energy | Fortune

Generative AI's massive computing needs are turning data centers into huge resource-draining mega-complexes and making them major political flashpoints over power, water, land, and jobs.
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