Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-water-power-use-us-data-centers-2026-04-06/

> Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over ‌the environmental impact of their projects

Investors being useful?

#technology #datacenters #ia #slop

When you *gleefully* betray your constituency in Brightwood

#indy #uspol #datacenters

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/impd-shots-fired-into-indianapolis-city-county-councilors-home/

Democrats See Georgia's Failure to Curb Data Centers as an Electoral Gift
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/democrats-see-georgias-failure-to-curb-data-centers-as-an-electoral-gift/

#DataCenters #GeorgiaPolitics #EnergyPolicy #TechEquity #DigitalInfrastructure

Shareholder proposals like this often don't make it past the polling stage.

Reuters: Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-water-power-use-us-data-centers-2026-04-06/ @Reuters #datacenters #BigTech

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116358434073322509

You can have all the #space #AI #datacenters, 6G, space lasers, and space sharks so long as you move to space with them. Also, source the materials from Mars or, preferably, from somewhere further away. Hell, you can even bring #Elmo with you.

#eattherich #cisco

I’d be interested in people’s thoughts and opinions about data centers. I think there are plenty of concerns around them, especially the energy portion of them.

My thoughts: AI will penetrate into almost everything over the next ten years. Currently, the focus is on bottom line (lay offs) and the trivial (“generate pictures”).

But the real fear is that a broad workforce development effort is lacking. My proposal would then be to rebrand data centers into innovation centers, focus on making them accessible to universities and vocational training programs, and create a new class of jobs or uplevel existing ones so as to prepare the broader workforce to thrive in an AI economy. So each data centers becomes an educational campus.

Case in point: Texas is 120,000 (!) qualified workers short. Electricians, fork lift operators, concrete and HVAC people, etc.
If there was a broad workforce development program implemented, not only would these people not be laid off, they’d have a wage increase of about 30%.

#ai #DataCenters #workforce #WorkforceDevelopment