Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades
An Ohio power company is trying to make major tech companies pay more of the costs of upgrading the electric grid to accommodate power-hungry data centers.
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
Dismantling public values, one data center at the time | Reimagining public values in algorithmic futures | University of Helsinki
In this blog post Julia Velkova discusses the problematics related to data centres from the Nordic perspective: Are the Nordic States too reliant on tech giants to in the critical communication infrastructures of the Welfare state?