r/technology • u/Putrid_Anybody_2947 • Aug 06 '26
Energy Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.
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r/technology • u/Limp_Fig6236 • Aug 24 '26
Energy US power grid at risk of 18-month blackout, official says, as 1 city has been in dark for more than a week
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r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 13 '26
Energy 'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jun 03 '26
Energy In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 07 '26
Energy AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
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r/technology • u/deraser • May 13 '26
Energy ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
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r/technology • u/chip_thoughts • May 10 '26
Energy 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
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jul 04 '26
Energy Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 27 '26
Energy Grok is more important than clean air, DOJ says
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • May 13 '26
Energy Data center drained 30 million gallons of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals
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r/technology • u/_Dark_Wing • Sep 08 '26
Energy A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes
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r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 29d ago
Energy U.S President cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels | In 2020, U.S President cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Sep 22 '26
Energy EPA unlawfully canceled $7B Solar for All program, judge rules
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 18 '26
Energy Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer
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r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • Sep 16 '26
Energy Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Sep 24 '26
Energy Rural Americans are getting more and more fed up with data centers
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r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 07 '26
Energy Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys
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r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 12 '26
Energy New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • May 23 '26
Energy Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030
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r/technology • u/dutchapplepoptart • Apr 05 '26
Energy Japan Wants to Build a Solar Ring Around the Moon That Will Provide Endless Clean Energy to Earth
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r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Sep 20 '26
Energy Oregon data centers use almost 25% of the state’s power
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r/technology • u/GuestFromBudushchego • 9d ago
Energy America’s $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray
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r/technology • u/Apprehensive-Safe382 • Mar 24 '26
Energy US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
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r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 09 '26
Energy A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid
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r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jul 14 '26
Energy Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
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