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New York's Data Center Moratorium: A Stark Warning for Tech Sustainability Imagine a world...

Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order creating what her office calls the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, halting discretionary state environmental permits for up to a year while New York writes new develo

This is Part II of a two-part series on the AI data center stack. Part I, AI's Physical Constraints:...

Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, the longest-serving in state history, lost his first-ever primary challenge after becoming the face of a fast-tracked data center approval.

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New York froze major data center approvals, forcing AI builders into a fight over power, water, and local control.

New York froze permits for data centers over 50 MW, making AI infrastructure a statewide energy fight.

Technical Reconstruction of Ireland's Data Center Energy Consumption Mechanisms...

Ireland's Central Statistics Office reported that data centers consumed 23% of the country's metered electricity in 2025, up from 5% in 2015, using more power than all urban households combined and rising even during a moratorium on new grid connecti

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Microsoft’s emissions jumped 25% as AI data centers expanded, putting its 2030 carbon negative pledge on shakier ground.

For most of the cloud era, a server rack was a five to twenty kilowatt object. You could fill a room...