AI data centers spark scrutiny

Companies and governments raced to build massive AI data centers worldwide, prompting community resistance in Latin America, lawmakers’ queries about rising electric bills and environmental and financial risk warnings.

Wired

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis attempts to estimate AI's upcoming environmental footprint in the United States and finds that the ideal data center sites aren’t where they’re being built.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Data center race: 'The pace is great for German conditions'

AI capacity in this country is set to quadruple, with billions flowing into data centers. Still, the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

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The Guardian

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

An expert explains how communities in some of the world’s driest regions are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment. This Q&A originally appeared as part of The Guardian’s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here. The data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom are enormous in every sense: their finances, their physical scale, and the amount of information they hold are so vast that halting their construction can seem like stopping an avalanche in progress.

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Kathimerini

Wave of layoffs at tech giants due to AI

The future has arrived earlier—much earlier. It has been no more than one or two years since studies and projections began to appear about the global impact on the job market of the recent surge in artificial intelligence, its applications, and the dizzying investments in the new technology.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Data center race: 'The pace is great by German standards'

The capacity for artificial intelligence is set to quadruple here, according to a new report. Billions are flowing into data centers. Yet the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Political Left Is Dialing Up Scrutiny of Data Centers

A group of Democratic senators are demanding the White House answer for higher electric bills they blame in part on the AI boom driving one of the most expensive infrastructure build-outs in U. S. history.

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Handelsblatt

Data Centers in Germany: AI Computing Power Will Quadruple by 2030

More and more data centers are being built in Germany, especially for AI applications. But compared with countries like the United States and China, Germany and Europe still have substantial catching up to do.