"More than 230 organizations including Food and Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace signed a public letter urging members of Congress to support a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers, citing rising electricity and water consumption. "The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans' economic, environmental, climate and water security," the letter reads."
"Several studies have linked higher energy prices to the arrival of new data centers in a region. Consumers have been arriving at similar conclusions: A recent survey, commissioned by solar installer Sunrun, found that eight in 10 consumers were worried about data centers negatively affecting their utility bills. Electricity prices have already shot up 13% this year, bigger than any annual increase in the past decade."
More than 230 environmental and public-interest organizations are calling for a nationwide moratorium on approval and construction of new data centers because of rising electricity and water consumption. The groups link a rapid, largely unregulated expansion of data centers tied to AI and crypto to community disruption and threats to economic, environmental, climate, and water security. Studies have connected new data centers to higher local energy prices, and a Sunrun survey found eight in 10 consumers worry about utility-bill impacts. Electricity prices rose 13% this year, and data center capacity is expected to grow from 40 GW to 106 GW by 2035.
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