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Tucson votes down $250M Amazon data center citing water and energy use
- perihelions 1y agoI submitted a different story a few weeks ago about China's AI datacenter boom, whose focus is in the Gobi desert, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-11/china-s-ai-dreams-lead-to-data-centers-in-once-restive-west https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-11/china-... ("China’s AI Dreams Lead to Data Centers in Once-Restive West") It's not impossible—actually pretty desirable, if you're doing large-scale solar power and need lots of cheap land—it's just that American civic culture, simply, sucks. It's the same stark story every time: China builds, the US fucking gives up.
- rhelz 1y agoDunno man, if somebody turns down hundreds of millions of dollars, I'm willing to believe that they have a pretty durn good reason.
- Finnucane 1y agoyeah, stupid civic culture won’t let nice corporation take all of its water and get nothing for it.
- yorwba 1y agoIn April, China issued window guidance to restrict datacenter construction to avoid overbuilding: https://www.cls.cn/detail/2005527 https://www.cls.cn/detail/2005527 The article you link mentions similar capacity cuts in the car industry, but apparently the author didn't research the datacenter boom deeply enough to realize that it's being curtailed as well.