870
In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
870 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
85172 readers
5315 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I don't understand why you said the first bit, nowhere had data centres to begin with.
Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters
Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind.