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Friday, May 15, 2026

The AI boom sidelined sustainability and has caused data center safety concerns

 https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/anthropics-spacex-compute-deal-comes-as-ai-data-center-backlash-grows-fueled-by-both-real-grievances-and-conspiracy-theories/  

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx 

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788 

https://opportunitygreen.org/data-centres/reports/data-centres-threaten-energy-systems-climate-goals

https://www.wri.org/insights/us-data-center-growth-impacts

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/ 

https://ucalgary.ca/sustainability/mobilizing-alberta/climate-action-blogs/will-ai-data-centres-raise-water-and-power-use-alberta Since Canada is cold for half of the year, its amazing that there aren't more AI data centers. 

https://www.siemens.com/en-us/industries/data-centers/cooling-infrastructure-ai-optimization 

https://www.eli.org/vibrant-environment-blog/ais-cooling-problem-how-data-centers-are-transforming-water-use

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