Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

15 July 2026 at 19:05

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’

Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence.

New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when Hochul signed an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on so-called “hyperscale” datacenters.

New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

The Guardian - Technology

By: Sanya Mansoor

14 July 2026 at 18:23

Governor Kathy Hochul issues executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities

New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday.

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products, which she signed at a mid-morning press conference.

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

The Guardian - Energy

By: Aisha Down and Dan Milmo

11 July 2026 at 12:00

Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction.

In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), or about a third of those of France.

Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution

The Guardian - Energy

By: Dan Milmo and Aisha Down

7 July 2026 at 10:00

Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

Datacentre planning proposals face all kinds of hurdles, from securing energy supply to high construction costs. But the 2,000 acre Prince William Digital Gateway site in the US state of Virginia had another problem: its proximity to a Civil War battlefield.

“If the development is allowed to proceed, the solemn nature of this historic site would become marred by sitting in the shadow of the monstrous datacentres, along with their associated electrical infrastructure,” said one legal brief against the plans.

A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

The Guardian - Technology

By: Aisha Down

20 June 2026 at 10:59

Does a thought-experiment about US ascendancy in the technology say as much about AI jitters as it does about the reality?

It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces.

The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude.

The Race for Artificial General Intelligence and the Coming of the Lawless One

Bible Science Forum

By: John Gideon Hartnett

27 October 2025 at 10:27

The emergence of a Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) may be soon claimed to have occurred and even demonstrated by one of these AI superclusters. It may be heralded as the arrival of a super intelligence, more intelligent than all mankind who deserves to be worshipped as a god, a god of human creation.

Emergence | Is it the Answer to Artificial Sentient Life?

Bible Science Forum

By: John Gideon Hartnett

26 October 2025 at 02:44

The ongoing competition to create artificial intelligence involves massive investments by major companies in developing supercomputers with extensive GPU capacities. However, true sentient intelligence cannot emerge merely from advanced technology, as intelligence is the product of divine creation, not a result of computational complexity alone.

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