I was under the impression that they specifically picked this location because there is a big power plant nearby which they can hook into. Why are they building their own turbines?
I’m sure they are conveniently skirting some regulations in the name of speed, and should not be allowed to do so, but is there hard data on pollution levels increasing around the area? Haven’t seen it in any of these reports, instead there are FLIR videos of “pollution” coming out of the turbines.
the real weakness of the "AI industry" seems to be the massive increase in CO2 emissions required
if I was trying to kill it politically that's exactly what I'd focus on
"We Went to the Town Elon Musk is Poisoning"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw&pp=ygUJZWxvbiB0b...
Musk doing Musk things
Url changed from https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/ which points to this.
Every year, it becomes more and more apparent that the philosophy of tech companies is to break or avoid the law and hope you're too big for the government to do something about it.