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Wind & solar generation has scaled up remarkably across the United States, but a growing share of this electricity is going to waste. When the grid can’t absorb all the power produced—either due to aging transmission systems or a lack of local load—the surplus is “curtailed”, or essentially wasted

theenergymix.com/data-centres-

The Energy Mix · Data Centres Tap Into Wasted Renewable ElectricityBy Chris Bonasia

"To the naked eye the pollution is not visible."

Wonder Valley Update #2 takes a look at two op-eds supporting the project, provincial demands to dismantle environmental protections, and Elon Musk's xAI data centre fiasco - more behind-the-scenes information I couldn’t fit in the story for The Energy Mix.

#airpollution #Alberta #DataCentres #methane #climatechange #ableg #AIdatacentres #water #ozone

jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/

The Missive · Wonder Valley Watch: It's marked out just like a large chessboardBy Jody MacPherson

"Grid capacity is a limited public resource – priority should be going to housing, not data centres… #FiannaFáil claims #housing is its top issue but… access to our public infrastructure and our natural resources are prioritised for #datacentres" #SpéirGorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/l...

Lynn Boylan: Grid capacity is ...

Irish Independent · Lynn Boylan: Grid capacity is a limited public resource – priority should be going to housing, not data centreBy Lynn Boylan

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.

Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.

I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.

Enjoy:

Links ->

The dataset: epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputer

Southern Environment Law Centre update: selc.org/news/resistance-again

Thermal images of the gas turbines: theguardian.com/technology/202

More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCy

Musk's chatbot is racist: reuters.com/business/musks-xai

Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: floodlightnews.org/power-for-d nytimes.com/2025/05/16/busines

A nice case study of a *defeated* 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia

#ElonMusk#XAI#Grok

#Nvidia is seeking to reduce its reliance on #BigTech companies by striking new partnerships to sell its artificial intelligence chips to nation states, corporate groups and challengers to groups such as #Microsoft, #Amazon and #Google.

This week, the #American chip giant announced a multibillion-dollar US chip deal with #SaudiArabia’s #Humain, while the #UnitedArabEmirates announced plans to build one of the world’s largest #DataCentres in co-ordination with the US government, as the #GulfStates plan to build massive #AI infrastructure.”

#ArtificialIntelligence / #silicon / #SiliconChips / #AIChips / #diversification <archive.md/NHg7O> / <ft.com/content/2ba1d064-242d-4> (paywall)