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Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand (slashdot.org)

2026-08-05 | tags: texas, power grid, ars technica

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Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035 (techspot.com)

2026-07-22 | by Shawn Knight | tags: data centers, bloombergnef, ai facilities

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Gen Z Appears to Be Reversing No-Drinking Trend, Now Lurching Toward Alcoholism (futurism.com)

2026-07-20 | by Frank Landymore | tags: iwsr, gen z, beverage industry

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A Popular Weight-Loss Trick Might Actually Make You Eat More (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: weight loss, water intake, calorie consumption

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1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: consumption, henry, management

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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-12 | by Dan Robinson | tags: consumption, electricity, grid

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Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-12 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, centers, consumption

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AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Luke James | tags: center, consumption, data center

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AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-03 | tags: data centers, power plants, tech giants

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Too many tables are bad for you (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: tables, health, nutrition

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Are smart bulbs more expensive to run than standard LEDs? (engadget.com)

2026-06-27 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Smart LED Bulb → | tags: smart bulbs, led bulbs, wifi

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Is your phone charger wasting electricity when it's not charging? (engadget.com)

2026-06-26 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: phone charger, standby power, energy consumption

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Power for energy-guzzling AI data centers is getting fast-tracked thanks to federal regulators (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-22 | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: federal energy regulatory commission, ai data centers, power grid

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More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026 — bipartisan opposition mounts nationwide over fears of soaring power and water costs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Data Center Cooling System → | tags: microsoft, amazon, data center

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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (techspot.com)

2026-06-03 | get GitHub Copilot Subscription → | tags: github, copilot, metered billing

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Erin Brockovich starts tracking AI data centers, calls on affected communities to submit issues — website shows more than 2,700 reports from across the US raising various concerns (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Data Center Monitoring Kit → | tags: pge, ai data centers, erin brockovich

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Inside the data center boom that's consuming Chile's last water (techspot.com)

2026-05-27 | get Data Center Cooling System → | tags: quilicura wetland, chile, data centers

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Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | by Jess Weatherbed | get AI Development Kit → | tags: uber, claude code, ai spending

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Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ (theverge.com)

2026-05-26 | by Jess Weatherbed | get AI Development Kit → | tags: uber, claude code, uber ceo dara khosrowshahi

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Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Aditi Bharade | get Crypto Token Management Software → | tags: uber, praveen neppalli naga, claude code

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How Much Do You Know About Data Centers? Take Our Quiz (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-20 | get Data Center Certification Kit → | tags: data centers, u.s., electricity

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Pennsylvania residents complain they are being 'bulldozed' over AI data center concerns — lambast Gov. Shapiro in two-hour town hall, say he is losing support base (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-15 | by Jowi Morales | get Smart Home Security Camera → | tags: ai data centers, pennsylvania, josh shapiro

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Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Luke James | get AI Productivity Booster Kit → | tags: amazon, consumption, demand

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A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed (slashdot.org)

2026-05-12 | get Water-Efficient Data Center Cooling → | tags: qts, quality technology services, data center

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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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Gen Z is turning subscriptions into short-term rentals for shows, movies, and games (techspot.com)

2026-05-07 | get Streaming Service Gift Card → | tags: gen z, streaming platforms, short-term rentals

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PCIe has doubled bandwidth every generation for two decades, PCIe 8.0 is on track to do it again at 1TB/s (techspot.com)

2026-05-07 | get PCIe 8.0 Expansion Card → | tags: pcie, pcie 8.0, bandwidth

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Kid Reportedly Consumes 13,000 YouTube Videos in Three Months During School Hours (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-30 | get YouTube Kids Tablet → | tags: youtube, kid, school hours

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GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-28 | get GitHub Copilot Subscription → | tags: github, github copilot, openai

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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | by Mario Rodriguez | get GitHub Copilot Subscription → | tags: github copilot, github ai credits, token consumption