2026-03-05
NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen “this is theater,” @AriPeskoe told me https://www.wired.com/...
Reuters
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers
Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen “this is theater,” @AriPeskoe told me https://www.wired.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: the White House's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states via rate deals, without penalties for those refusing to comply
but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen “this is theater,” @AriPeskoe told me https://www.wired.com/...
2026-02-08
really can't convey how insane it is to watch the legislative action on this, which basically was sitting at next to nothing a year ago to more than 60 data center-related bills in Virginia alone this year: https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation
2026-02-07
really can't convey how insane it is to watch the legislative action on this, which basically was sitting at next to nothing a year ago to more than 60 data center-related bills in Virginia alone this year: https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.