Frenzy as tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts. Ai data centers are causing blackouts and water shortages, igniting community backlash and demands for sustainability. In mexico, at least one microsoft data centre is owned and operated by ascenty, a latin american data center company
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In ireland, the wouldbe amazon data centre was developed by a firm called art data centres.
In ireland, more than 20% (!!!) of the country’s electricity is consumed by data centers
In mexico, poor communities near data center sites are seeing water supplies dry up and their fragile power grids falter. Ai data centers create fury from mexico to ireland admin 2 minutes ago 1 min read
