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That's great news. I live in Alberta, Canada, where our premier is a paid-for total tool of big corporations & is approving data centres with zero environmental assessment and zero consideration of their impact on long-term employment prospects.

Only one year? Is an election on the horizon?

👏 Thank you to my Gov.

Someone finally picked up the $100 bill laying on the sidewalk. Glad it was the better side

One year?! How about NEVER?!

One year? Hell, make it permanent.

Maine could have been first - but Democratic Governor Janet Mills vetoed that - in apparent collusion with data center developer Jay data center developer sought to give Janet Mills ‘cover’ for key veto, emails show themainemonitor.org/jay-data-cen...

One year is not enough @governor.ny.gov bsky.app/profile/wire...

Sigh. Billionaires ruin everything. What if we made neighborhood-scale compute data centers powered by solar. Use the waste heat to replace aging gas/oil boilers to warm nearby homes, schools, and offices. Treat compute like a public utility and infrastructure innovation instead of a profit center.

Meanwhile in Ohio we are giving them tax breaks.

2/2 - “The cost per job can be extreme. In one case, a data center in New York promised 125 jobs in exchange for $1.4 billion, or $11 million per job, Good Jobs First found. The average cost of data center "megadeals" is $1.95 million per job, according to a Good Jobs First study.”

On top of that they should force them to only use renewables.

Countdown to the Feds invoking the commerce clause to overrule it. Sometimes I wonder why we have the 10th amendment at all.

This is what standing for something vs standing for NOTHING looks like ... !!!!! Have we EVER seen a politician work as diligently and as fast at getting REAL shit people care about done!!!! take notes fellow Mayors ... you owe us better!!!!!

I will ALWAYS be a New Yorker ... but I had to leave a bit back ... and now with Mamdani ... I have never wanted to move back more !!!!!!

Shut down & dismantle all data centers

A generic EIS for an entire category of facilities is actually smart procedure. Better than case-by-case chaos. Hochul is doing this right: voicenews.app/moment/hochu...

Wise move. substack.com/@europeanpow...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Illinois needs to implement and enforce a data center moratorium

👏👏👏👏👏

You just know he or his staff was a driving force behind this. Hochol is an establishment Dem, but she has to be seen supporting Mamdani lest she face the wrath of his supporters come election time. I love that for her and wish it on all pro-corporate establishment Dems.

Move data centers to space. Instead of building one massive, monolithic megastructure in space,"string of pearls" in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Each individual satellite acts like a tiny, self-contained server rack equipped with its own solar panels, a small cluster of AI chips, laser communicators.

And here, also from my shop @sehnetwork.bsky.social, are guidelines and for communities targeted by data centers: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad8b...

Thank you, Gov Hochul, and Mayor Mamdani, too!

Cue the GOP saying they are "killing jobs." Constituents on both sides are opposed datacenters for AI, but it will still be used as an opportunity to (try to) make them look bad.

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stupid political non-sense. Data centers do NOT raise electricity bills and close loop water system do not consume addition water to cool themselves. What data centers provide is added tax revenue for communities not stupid enough to make such bans

www.newsweek.com/erin-brockov...

substack.com/@europeanpow....

@massgovernor.bsky.social

In June, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders sat down with WIRED to discuss his own proposals for AI regulation, which would include a data center moratorium until safeguards are implemented.

YAY! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⚡️🇺🇸⚡️ THANK YOU, GOVERNOR HOCHUL! ⚡️ #DataCenters

@governor.pa.gov please do this for the people of PA

Good

Thank you!

That’s just when the taxpayer bailouts start.

So Leftist victories are putting some spine into the other ones. That was quick.

The problem is that this only attacks one end of the problem. We really need to get at the root of it, which is the demand. We need a total ban on generative AI, which brings far more problems than just resource-hungry, polluting data centers.

This is a political ploy for the midterms in my estimation. A political pandering ruse. Mark it down 🙌🏻

Turning Off the Tap: The Case for Seawater Cooling in Data Centers "The real barrier to more widespread use of seawater as a cooling source is financial, not technological." www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/turn...

@governor.ca.gov Follow her lead!!!

49 more to go...

zit should be forever. AI datacenter are useless, wasteful and pointless.

Ah, yes, pause them until after the election. Clever. Except it's not, because a year from now we'll be hot into the presidential election cycle. Should have been 30 months. Derp.

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All that was mention med was a pause, not a pause to draw up plans. It sounded like a bandaid maneuver.

After my national greed bill tripled in a year over trumps dumbshit tariffs, it’s about time. We import energy from Canada.

Good initiative 👏

But what if I want "AI" to do nothing, and for all theft-based LLMs including locally hosted ones to be regulated out of existence, as they should be? :)

bsky.app/profile/mjkw... Fighting in Washington and Idaho

Glad to see this from NY

You just can't inundate small communities with HUGE tech projects, without carefuly planning. And they are trying to rush these things through.

legendary (not as in worthy of legend, but as in of Legendary level Rarity) government w

One state down, forty-nine to go!

The right thing to do. Thanks.

yeah for a year, good start. Many places are banning them, and just remember, they are a constant target to thieves since most of the stuff there is worth millions. They been having van loads aparently