Hi Watchers!
This month in speaking engagements, audiences have asked if I’ve heard about community organizers pushing back on new data center facility construction.
Our ongoing enjoyment of GenAI will require more data center capacity construction unless new efficiencies or demand reductions emerge quickly.
Large industrial facilities are a mixed bag for the communities where they are sited. Data centers are no exception.
Everyone around the world can use and benefit from a data center that brings issues with water, power, and noise to a local community. And to the community where new power plants are being built to enable our online computing.
We all benefit. Some of us contend with the physical manifestation of our cloud computing economy. All of us contend with the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions that result.
Here is a good BBC article about community organizers involved in data center and power transmission/generation siting decisions.