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Servers alone already accounted for an estimated 7% of all commercial sector electricity in 2025. By 2050 that share climbs to between 22% and 33% across scenarios in the agency’s Annual Energy Outlook 2026, released in April. Server consumption could reach as high as 818 billion kWh by midcentury in the high-demand case. Standalone data …
Abbott now says prohibit AI data centers in rural Texas. He wants to remove their tax breaks too. This is different from last year when he praised Google projects. Statement came during East Texas campaign event. Backlash from rural residents over power use and noise grows. Rural areas push back hard against big tech projects. …
Two things shown in this chart.1. Poor people getting poorer.2. Unprofitable datacenters getting…unprofitabler.#AiMania https://t.co/RFe9ukQGAf — Nobody Special (@JG_Nuke) September 21, 2025 pic.twitter.com/EEXeqZLRFg — Nobody Special (@JG_Nuke) September 21, 2025 Trump certainly hasn't helped any of these things, and has made some of them worse. But everything you just listed was a problem either caused, ignored, …