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The AI Climate Hoax — Ketan Joshi
This report, supported by a coalition of climate and digital rights organizations, interrogates the claim that AI will help solve climate change. It finds that most cited climate benefits come from older, smaller machine learning models rather than generative AI, and that the evidence for these benefits is weak. Meanwhile, big tech companies are veering…
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NEW POLLING: Research on AI Data Centers, Costs, and Pollution | Climate Power
Polling reveals that 64% of voters are concerned about rising utility costs from AI data centers, with 66% trusting their governor over federal officials to manage local impacts. Support for clean energy-powered data centers exceeds opposition to fossil fuel-powered ones by substantial margins.
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Research on AI Data Centers, Costs, & Pollution by Climate Power
Research highlights the environmental impacts and costs associated with AI data centers, emphasizing the need for effective campaign strategies and community engagement to address these issues. The report is part of a broader advocacy effort by Climate Power, focusing on grid infrastructure and environmental permits.
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Beware of TeraWulf: We Believe the Company is a Charade to Enrich Insiders at the Cost of Investors and Backed by Notorious Pump and Dump Artists – Grizzly Research LLC
This investigative report by Grizzly Research examines TeraWulf (WULF), a Bitcoin mining company operating large-scale computing facilities in Western New York and Central Pennsylvania, alleging that insiders have siphoned over $100 million through related-party transactions with CEO-controlled entities. The report details connections between TeraWulf's largest shareholders and individuals charged by the SEC in pump-and-dump schemes,…
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Five Concerns About AI Data Centers, and What to Do About Them
Five recurring claims about AI data centers — excessive electricity use, grid crowding, rising household bills, reliability threats and water strain — each stem from different root causes. This Center for Data Innovation report examines the evidence behind each concern, distinguishing physical grid stresses from market-design and pricing-structure effects.
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Data Center Tax Abatements: Why States and Localities Must Disclose These Soaring Revenue Losses
Fourteen states and scores of localities fail to disclose data center tax abatement revenue losses, violating accounting standards in effect since 2017. Georgia, Virginia and Texas each lose more than $1 billion per year. Good Jobs First documents the disclosure gaps and recommends back-reporting and adopting Nevada's local-share reporting model.
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Compute and Consequence: AI Energy Demand in a Rapidly Evolving Grid Landscape — As You Sow
Utilities fast-track new gas infrastructure to meet projected AI-driven electricity demand, but the gap between forecasts and actual load growth remains wide. As You Sow examines how speculative projections risk locking in fossil fuel capacity, raising consumer rates and stalling grid decarbonization. Maps a framework connecting investors, technology companies and utilities to clean energy procurement…
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms