The Coalition to Protect Prince William County
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The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. | The New Yorker The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy? By Elizabeth Kolbert March 9, 2024 It’s been estimated that ChatGPT is consuming more
ChatGPT Uses 17,000 Times More Electricity Than a US Household: Report (businessinsider.com) Lakshmi Varanasi Mar 9, 2024, 8:14 PM EST ChatGPT is using up a lot more electricity than the average US household.LIONEL BONAVENTURE ChatGPT uses more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity daily,
Amid record high energy demand, America is running out of electricity – The Washington Post Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (msn.com) AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. Story
Prince William County’s Planning Commission gets a makeover | Headlines | insidenova.com
AWS just went nuclear – and more hyperscalers could follow (silverliningsinfo.com)
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Microsoft spends big on data center land near Gainesville | Politics | insidenova.com
Fauquier supervisor warns about data centers in Vint Hill | News | princewilliamtimes.com
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert (msn.com)
Dear Coalition friends and supporters, We want to impress upon you, and our Supervisors, the magnitude of transmission lines and substations that are gathering like a storm at our collective doorstep. All for one undeniable reason. The Dominion Representative in Monday’s “stakeholder” meeting confirmed it
Barely five years after dealing with citizen uproar over multiple route possibilities cutting through communities for the Haymarket Transmission line, Dominion Energy is at it again. Dominion submitted the Daves Store Transmission line route to the SCC on Feb. 9, 2024 — completely ignoring citizen input.
The Dirty Energy Fueling Amazon’s Data Gold Rush | The Nation ENVIRONMENT / FEBRUARY 22, 2024 Northern Virginia is grappling with the environmental effects of a booming data-center empire. ELLA FANGER Amazon data centers loom over houses at the edge of the Loudoun Meadows neighborhood on January
Prince William County is on track to become the world’s largest data center hub | News | princewilliamtimes.com By Peter Cary Piedmont Journalism Foundation Feb 22, 2024 The Village Place Technology Park, under construction behind a townhome complex in Haymarket, is an example of data
Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom | Ireland | The Guardian A datacentre on the outskirts of Dublin. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The Guardian Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast
State lawmakers want to peel back the curtain at the nation’s biggest electrical grid operator – Virginia Mercury BY: ROBERT ZULLO – FEBRUARY 9, 2024 2:23 PM A Dominion substation in New Kent County, Virginia. (Sarah Vogelsong / Virginia Mercury) Last year, Maryland state lawmaker Lorig
Dirty No.Va. Data Centers Cause Failure to Reach Climate Goals (stoppathwv.com)
Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors (bbc.com) Feb. 14, 2024 By Michael DempseyTechnology reporter BBC Chris Sharp thinks that new data centres will need to be powered by their own nuclear reactors A man with a shiny metal Concorde model on his desk,
Nuclear-powered data center campus in Surry, Virginia, gets rezoning approval – DCD (datacenterdynamics.com) Site will eventually house small modular nuclear reactors February 13, 2024 By Matthew Gooding A nuclear-powered data center campus in Surry, Virginia, has moved a step closer to fruition after planners approved
Proposed power grid upgrades driven by Va. data centers could cost Marylanders $500M | Economy & business | fredericknewspost.com By Gabrielle Lewis glewis@newspost.com Feb 13, 2024 Staff photo by Ric Dugan A crew from Telecon Services work on installation of innerduct for fiber optic cable