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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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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.