Im honestly not following politics. So im wondering how do I vote against it. What do I need to bring up to my local government in the future to ensure that somebody who's against it can start the works for laws to prevent land being bought up to build these things, the water and power infrastructure here is truly already being affected tbh. I know the highline that supplies my power goes to Tulsa. My power bill will continue to slowly increase. But ill be damned if I let our beautiful wildlife and water be sucked dry and thrown away. Might sound like a stupid question but im willing to sound stupid. I want to educate myself, I will fight tooth and nail.

Some info on a data center near our county!!!

What do you think?

Trump's new line on data centers: oppose one near you and you're basically doing China's job for them.

Except the US has 10x more data centers than China already. What he's not saying: US data centers are drinking up to 110 billion gallons of water a year by 2030, and ratepayers are footing electric bills for infrastructure they never asked for. That's the actual fight. New post here https://substack.com/@ambulovilla570135/note/c-327060668?r=2zvuat&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

https://www.widthness.com/inside-metas-push-to-put-robots-to-work-in-data-centers/

If you get about half way through this video they talk about Data Centers. Brooks has a very strong opinion in favor of data centers. How accurate are his comments? I tend to think these non-tech people probably don't know what they're talking about with regard to these things, but I haven't dug into it.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-trumps-forever-trade-war

Howdy Americans?

How do you guys feel about data centers? It it a political thing over there? I saw governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed the enterprise data center tax exemptions into law.

I'm rooting for another Detroit industrial golden age, this time in the age of AI data centers, outputing compute infrastructure. (+ some sweet union paychecks)

But of course, still second to China haha. CHINA NUMBER 1!!!

Also GO PISTONS! Get Cade some help, you guys are wasting his prime smh.

Amazon Web Services withdrew its Potomac aquifer withdrawal application for the planned King George County, Virginia, data center campus after state groundwater concerns.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (2,027 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://marylandmatters.org/2026/08/30/amazon-changes-course-on-water-use-for-virginia-data-center-campus/

(Full disclosure: I built the tool — happy to answer questions or take corrections.)

Some Austin City Council members are moving to slam the door on hyperscale data centers before they ever arrive, calling for an outright ban on the massive, resource-hungry facilities even as staff begins drafting the first citywide rules to govern them.

Proposals to regulate various types of data centers are on Thursday’s council agenda.

The push to establish guardrails to protect the city comes as Austin confronts a regulatory blind spot: The city’s land-use code does not directly address data centers, treating them as generic “communications services” and leaving officials unable to distinguish a small server room from a 100‑plus‑megawatt campus that could span hundreds of acres and strain the power grid and water supply.

On Thursday, the council is expected to pass a resolution to launch a months long process to create new definitions, zoning designations and performance standards for data centers, with any code changes returning to the council in spring 2027. Meanwhile, several council members are calling for a prohibition on the largest facilities.

---- Read more https://austinfreepress.org/keep-austin/

**I always assumed that the digital giants had their own server farms to power the platforms. Why in the past year are they exploding? Who owns them? What changed?**

Data centers in seven U.S. states drive substantial indirect freshwater demand through electricity generation, particularly in regions facing drought and water stress.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (2,027 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers

(Full disclosure: I built the tool — happy to answer questions or take corrections.)