Is the environmental impact of datacentres finally cutting through?

In this week’s newsletter: Anti-datacentre sentiment is growing across the political spectrum in the US – and the public is only just finding out about the potential effects on their energy bills • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Anti-datacentre sentiment is growing from across the political spectrum in the US. More than a dozen states have considered moratoria on datacentres. New York became the first US state to enact a temporary ban last month. Progressive stalwarts Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed a national moratorium . And even Greg Abbott, the far-right governor of Texas, called for a ban on datacentre development in rural swaths of his state. ‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube Continue reading...