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Cash-strapped Americans shouldn’t fund Big Tech’s data centers
The rapid growth of AI data centers has become a major election issue, emerging as a flashpoint in statewide races in November and a central theme in candidates’ platforms. Once-overlooked state public service commissioners — utility regulators — drew unprecedented attention this cycle, with Democrats in Georgia unseating two Republican incumbents criticized for raising rates and expanding fossil fuels for data centers. Why the growing voter interest? Because our energy bills are skyrocketing.
Opinion - Cash-strapped Americans shouldn’t fund Big Tech’s data centers
The rapid growth of AI data centers has become a major election issue, emerging as a flashpoint in statewide races in November and a central theme in candidates’ platforms. Once-overlooked state public service commissioners — utility regulators — drew unprecedented attention this cycle, with Democrats in Georgia unseating two Republican incumbents criticized for raising rates and expanding fossil fuels for data centers. Why the growing voter interest? Because our energy bills are skyrocketing.
Lawfare Daily: Energy Security, Data Centers, and AI
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Christie Hicks, the Managing Attorney overseeing Earthjustice's Clean Energy Program, and Mandy DeRoche, a Deputy Managing Attorney in Earthjustice's Clean Energy Program, join Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to explore the intersection of environmental law and national security as the Biden administration prioritizes AI...
On Renewable Energy, It’s Up to You, New York
In 2019, New York enacted the pathbreaking Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which requires steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to stave off the worst of the climate crisis. The CLCPA mandates that by 2030 greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of the economy be reduced 40% from their 1990 levels, and that by 2050 emissions be reduced 85% from 1990 levels. To support these deep emissions cuts, the CLCPA requires New York to clean up its electric grid.
Another Voice: Digihost, like most crypto-mining operations, offers pollution and little else
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save North Tonawandans unlucky enough to live near the Digihost/Fortistar fracked gas power plant-turned Bitcoin mine are experiencing a story that’s being told across the country. The company claimed it would bring new jobs, but it has created perhaps a few new security jobs. What communities with new cryptomines actually receive is increased air and water pollution, 24/7 headache-inducing noise and, in many cases, higher energy bills.
Another Voice: Digihost, like most crypto-mining operations, offers pollution and little else
North Tonawandans unlucky enough to live near the Digihost/Fortistar fracked gas power plant-turned Bitcoin mine are experiencing a story that’s being told across the country. The company claimed it would bring new jobs, but it has created perhaps a few new security jobs. What communities with new cryptomines actually receive is increased air and water pollution, 24/7 headache-inducing noise and, in many cases, higher energy bills.
Earthjustice Would Welcome Biden Admin Assessment of Cryptocurrency Mining's Climate and Energy Impacts
(02/17/2023) (readMedia)-- Late yesterday afternoon, Axios reported that the Biden administration may be moving forward with an effort to assess cryptocurrency mining's climate impacts, and a U.Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney of the Clean Energy Program at Earthjustice, issued the following statement in response: "The cryptocurrency mining industry is nebulous and opaque, currently with very little regulation or reporting standards." In December 2022, Earthjustice and Sierra Club, in...
Building on the N.Y. crypto mining moratorium
The crypto mining industry spent millions of dollars to try to kill a bill that Gov. Hochul just signed into law, making New York the first state in the nation to put a moratorium on an extremely energy-intensive process. It’s a big deal. The new law puts a two-year pause on corporate purchasing of fossil fuel-based power plants for the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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