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Americans Would Rather Live by a Nuclear Power Plant Than an AI Data Center (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Data Center Model Kit → | tags: nuclear power plant, ai data center, americans

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Americans really don't want AI data centers close to their homes (engadget.com)

2026-05-14 | by Kris Holt | get AI Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: ai data centers, gallup survey, spacex xai

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70% of Americans don't want AI data centers near their home, that's more opposition than nuclear plants get (techspot.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Data Center Noise Insulation → | tags: ai data centers, americans, nuclear plants

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Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards (theverge.com)

2026-05-14 | by Stevie Bonifield | get AI Data Center Soundproofing Kit → | tags: ai data centers, gallup survey, laptop mag

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49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 data centers, high demand plus a regulatory limbo equals a dim situation (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-14 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) → | tags: google, microsoft, apple

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Tim De Chant | get Smart Thermostat → | tags: billion, energy, fervo

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Microsoft's $1 Billion AI Data Center Will 'Switch Off Half of Kenya' (slashdot.org)

2026-05-12 | get Microsoft Azure Data Center → | tags: center, country, data center

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SoftBank to manufacture its own batteries with water-based tech to power AI data centers — targets gigawatt-hour-scale production by 2028 (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Luke James | get Water-Based Battery Kit → | tags: battery, halogen, hardware

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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Luke James | get Kenya Data Center Power Adapter → | tags: capacity, center, country

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Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off "half the country" (techspot.com)

2026-05-12 | get Microsoft Azure Data Center → | tags: microsoft, kenya, azure

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Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center (futurism.com)

2026-05-11 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: moms clean air force, data center, fossil fuels

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Kevin O’Leary Wants to Build a $100 Billion AI Data Center in Utah. Locals Say It Could Drain the Great Salt Lake. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | by Jonathan Small | get AI Data Center Building Kit → | tags: ai data center, great salt lake, box elder county

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AI data center developers target rural territory to bypass city construction bans and regulations — rural locations allow sites to bypass city council approvals, rezoning votes, land-use reviews, and reduce public scrutiny (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-11 | by Jowi Morales | get Rural Data Center Kit → | tags: center, city, county

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AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Luke James | get Water Usage Monitoring System → | tags: qts, project excalibur, data center

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AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Jowi Morales | get Soundproofing Acoustic Panels → | tags: ai data centers, infrasound, decibel meters

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Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center (futurism.com)

2026-05-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get Renewable Energy Power Bank → | tags: oracle, project jupiter, bloom energy

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Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-09 | by Jowi Morales | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: pjm interconnection, maryland, data centers

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Nintendo Switch 2 price hikes are coming and you can thank the AI data center building boom (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | get Nintendo Switch OLED Model → | tags: nintendo switch 2, ai data center, ram shortage

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All the latest updates on AI data centers (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Verge Staff | get AI Data Center Cooling System → | tags: data centers, energy, power grids

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AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Data Center Cooling System → | tags: data center bans, ai hyperscalers, memory chip shortage

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Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jowi Morales | get Smartphone Camera Lens Protector → | tags: mida, utah data center, j&j nursery

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Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway (techspot.com)

2026-05-08 | get AI Data Center Construction Kit → | tags: stargate, openai, oracle

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Nintendo hikes Switch 2 prices and expects console sales to decline as memory crunch bites (cnbc.com)

2026-05-08 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Nintendo Switch Console Accessories → | tags: nintendo switch 2, memory chip crunch, playstation 5

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Motherboard sales are collapsing because AI data centers made RAM too expensive to buy (techspot.com)

2026-05-08 | get Corsair Vengeance RAM → | tags: motherboard, ram, ai data centers

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You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers (futurism.com)

2026-05-07 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: trade unions, ai data centers, big tech

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After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-07 | by Luke James | get Energy-Efficient Data Center → | tags: stargate ai, oracle, openai

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The American tech manufacturing success story hiding in plain sight (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-07 | get Intel Core i7 Processor → | tags: corning, pyrex, gorilla glass

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AI data center boom squeezes consumer tech’s chip supply—even though they use different chips (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-07 | get Intel Xeon Processor → | tags: nvidia, data center, chip manufacturing

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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-06 | by Tim De Chant | get Azure Solar Power Bank → | tags: microsoft, ai data centers, clean energy

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Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50% (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-06 | by Anton Shilov | get Corning Optical Fiber Kit → | tags: corning, nvidia, optical fiber