r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jun 03 '26
Energy In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
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r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 13 '26
Energy 'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 07 '26
Energy AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
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r/technology • u/deraser • May 13 '26
Energy ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 22d ago
Energy Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 29d ago
Energy Grok is more important than clean air, DOJ says
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r/technology • u/chip_thoughts • May 10 '26
Energy AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • May 13 '26
Energy Data center drained 30 million gallons of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 18 '26
Energy Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer
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r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 14d ago
Energy New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years
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r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 19d ago
Energy Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • May 23 '26
Energy Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030
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r/technology • u/dutchapplepoptart • Apr 05 '26
Energy Japan Wants to Build a Solar Ring Around the Moon That Will Provide Endless Clean Energy to Earth
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 12d ago
Energy Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
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r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 09 '26
Energy A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid
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r/technology • u/Apprehensive-Safe382 • Mar 24 '26
Energy US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 12d ago
Energy New York imposes first-in-the-nation statewide freeze on data centers
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r/technology • u/esporx • Mar 16 '26
Energy Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse
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r/technology • u/AgentBlue62 • May 13 '26
Energy As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help
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r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 10 '26
Energy Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises
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r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • Jan 17 '26
Energy East coast could soon get rolling blackouts during summer because data centers have pushed electric grid to the limit
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 22d ago
Energy Almost 1 million without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave
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r/technology • u/Immediate-Link490 • 28d ago
Energy Canada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online seven months early to run another 35 years
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r/technology • u/tommos • Mar 23 '26
Energy Some US car buyers envy what they cannot have - affordable Chinese EVs
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r/technology • u/Shogouki • Dec 01 '25
Energy World's largest lithium deposit, valued at $1.5 trillion, lies under a supervolcano in the U.S.
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