By 2030, AI demand outpaces supply by 100 gigawatts.
In the world's largest market, new data centers now sit in a seven-year connection queue, for power the grid may never free up. In Ireland, the operator stopped connecting them at all.
Amazon paid $20.5 million over data center wastewater that reached residents' wells. Elsewhere, regulators are weighing permits to let cooling systems dump forever chemicals into public water.
Seven in ten Americans now oppose a data center anywhere near them. In 2025 the backlash went national, stalling projects across the country.
New York became the first state to halt new data center permits, and more than a hundred towns have their own bans. In Alberta, the regulator just killed the country's largest proposed campus.
It escapes all four walls, then runs into two new ones.
Without the grid. Without a drop of fresh water.
Good for the environment. Good for governments. Good for communities.
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