US EditionW. Virginia villagers take on AI-driven power plant boom
- Denton, Texas, will soon house a large data center for OpenAI, projected to double the city's electricity needs by 2030, consuming 390 megawatts of power, according to Bloomberg.
- Core Scientific owns the Denton site and is pivoting from bitcoin mining to AI, while being acquired by CoreWeave in a $9 billion sale, as reported by CNBC.
- The Texas Reliability Entity states that the demand from new data centers poses a significant challenge for electricity reliability in Texas, citing unprecedented grid load growth.
- The health impact of living near large data centers is unknown, as noted by the Texas Reliability Entity, raising concerns about residents' electricity bills and health.
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“The power plant would be there,” says Al Tomson, mayor of a small town in the east of the United States. That point on the map of his idyllic region became a battlefield between technological giants and communities. Tomson opposes the construction of the mysterious project, designed to feed an immense data center, just outside Davis, a picturesque village between mountains of 600 inhabitants and three hours by car from Washington. The state gov…
Davis - "The power plant would be there", points on a map Al Tomson, the mayor of Davis, in the east of the United States. This former soldier fights against the implantation, at the exit of his village, of gas turbines intended to supply electricity to a vast data centre. This project, which the state of West Virginia is trying to "take by force" to the 600 inhabitants of the village according to the edile, is just one more example in the speed…
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