Gerry McGovern

Community pressure on data centers is working!

"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. More than a dozen investors are cranking up the heat on companies ahead of annual shareholder meetings this spring."

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

Apr 7 at 10:36amWeb
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@gerrymcgovern would love for this to be much more common across all sectors - if you are building a facility that is going to use a ton of power, you should be responsible for offsetting that draw somehow. Same for water usage