Yale Sustainability: VIDEO: How Yale is Reducing Energy Use in Museums and Collections Spaces. “Museums and collection storage spaces are famously energy intensive. To preserve artifacts, they often rely on strict, round-the-clock setpoints for temperature, relative humidity, and light. Across large buildings and multiple collections, those standards come with a steep energy cost—putting […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/video-how-yale-is-reducing-energy-use-in-museums-and-collections-spaces-yale-sustainability/

SJV Water: MEETING NOTES: Desert groundwater agency hears overwhelming opposition to proposed desert data center. “The Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority’s May 13 meeting was flooded with comments from the public asking the authority to oppose a recently proposed artificial intelligence data center in Inyokern being promoted by R&L Capital, Inc.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/meeting-notes-desert-groundwater-agency-hears-overwhelming-opposition-to-proposed-desert-data-center-sjv-water/

Spokesman-Review: WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers. “Data centers are demanding more energy than ever to fuel artificial intelligence, and the utility is not only running out of locally sourced electricity but also power-line capacity. To build more, the [Grant County Public Utility District] considered running lines through public lands, protected […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/16/spokesman-review-wa-homeowners-farmers-say-their-land-is-being-stolen-for-data-centers/

TechSpot: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers. “A Nevada energy company recently informed a nearby California utility provider that it will no longer supply electricity to 49,000 Lake Tahoe customers after May 2027. Although the decision is not tied to a specific AI data center, data centers have grown their footprint in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/techspot-nearly-50000-lake-tahoe-residents-have-one-year-to-find-new-power-as-their-utility-pivots-to-data-centers/

Block Club Chicago: Blue Island Data Center Planners Get Booed By Residents. “Blue Island residents said they were concerned about potential noise coming from the center as well as water and electricity usage, and how the center could affect housing in the city. One resident, a recent college graduate, told the council that while studying she took courses focused on the ethics and societal […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/block-club-chicago-blue-island-data-center-planners-get-booed-by-residents/

TechSpot: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off “half the country”. “It would bring foreign investment, a new Azure cloud region, and a facility powered by geothermal energy, but there’s a problem. According to Kenyan officials, the project would require a massive amount of electricity in a country where the grid is nowhere near ready for AI-era demands.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/techspot-microsofts-1-billion-kenya-ai-data-center-could-require-switching-off-half-the-country/

Tom’s Hardware: Denmark presses pause on new data center grid connections as total requests hit 60 GW — Nordic nation is the latest to put the brakes on AI buildouts. “After a sudden inrush of a total of 60 GW of grid connection requests, 14 GW of those for datacenters, Denmark’s Energinet was forced to issue a moratorium on new large-scale installations, according to a CNBC report. For […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/toms-hardware-denmark-presses-pause-on-new-data-center-grid-connections-as-total-requests-hit-60-gw-nordic-nation-is-the-latest-to-put-the-brakes-on-ai-buildouts/

Carnegie Mellon University: Coordinating AI workloads and energy use for sustainable data centers. “Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are partnering with Bosch Research (Pittsburgh, PA) to explore how AI data centers can operate more efficiently by coordinating computing workloads with energy availability. Their project focuses on jointly optimizing AI job scheduling and energy […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/15/carnegie-mellon-university-coordinating-ai-workloads-and-energy-use-for-sustainable-data-centers/

Ars Technica: Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage. “Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/01/ars-technica-senators-want-us-energy-information-agency-to-monitor-data-center-electricity-usage/

Ed Zitron: The AI Industry Is Lying To You. “Here’s what’s actually happening: data center deals are being funded by eager private credit gargoyles that don’t know shit about fuck. These deals are announced, usually by overly-eager reporters that don’t bother to check whether the previous data centers ever got built, as massive ‘multi-gigawatt deals,’ and then nobody follows up to check […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/24/ed-zitron-the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/