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Followed the ancestors by AI construction companies Data centers to support his feverish growth and many Shops to attract themSome cities say that, not so fast.
It is also the case in St. Louisu and the Holy Charlus, Missouri, two cities only 30 minutes away in the heart of the country.
22. August, st. Charles imposed, on a one-time vote, a one year Moratorium on the new construction center of data After the news broke on the project of the secret data center, which is in the city that accelerated protests from local inhabitants.
In St. Louis, the head of the year’s city planning agency this week proposed similar moratorium “While the city develops a complete understanding of the issue and develops quality land, environmental and other regulations”, according to the memorandum Public Radio St. Louis. The break is that the mayor supports.
There is a good reason that these cities are worried. Data transmission centers, stuffed with thousands of computers to deal with everything you do online, have a loud need for electricity and water and no small amount of land or construction space. Arrival Generative AI It dramatically enrolled demand for such facilities, including Openai, Google, Microsoft and Meta.
Between 2021 and 2024, number of transmission centers in Us almost doubled in the middle of AI’s rapid progress. Meanwhile, that AKC Action Plan Tubleton Ari She offered full support for the construction of transmission centers and data resources to support them.
The two biggest concerns regarding data centers include a large amount of water needed for server cooling and stresses that cause in the electricity network.
I heard objections in AI data centers from the inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Louisiana this summer when I researched the impact of the environment and energy. The principal in the retirement director who had He told me organized community resistance“I’m worried about the kind of world I’m going for my grandchildren. It’s not safer, not selling these big corporations. You know, it’s not in their backyard, it’s not in their backyard.”
Return of the Data Center in St. Charles
When the inhabitants of St. Charles have learned about the plans of the Data Center for their city, hundreds appeared at a meeting of the city house in order to hear their opposition. Center, known as the Cumulus project, would be sitting about 440 acres.
“The effects of everything that would hit, in the long run, in the short term, our house will feel it, whether it is subsidized costs for building additional infrastructure, for electricity leaders,” st. Charles Resident Andrew Gardner said it was subsidized costs to build additional infrastructure for the construction of additional infrastructure. St. Magazine Louis At that time.
The opposition and the actions of the inhabitants worked.
To an August EmailHe shares public radio saint Louis, developers behind the Cumulus project told the city of St. Charles that they withdrew their application for permission for conditional use. They said they would incorporate feedback on the community and prepare a revised proposal.
Days later, the city brought their one-year moratorium on the new construction site of the data.
Toward Public Radio St. LouisThe company behind the project cumulus seems to be Google, but it has not yet been confirmed. On the other side of the state of Google constructs a Data Center for $ 1 billion in Kansas, Missouri.
Google has not replied immediately at CNET request.
A pause on data centers rather than a ban
This is a server room in a data center that belongs to metaic Facebook operations in Lulea, Sweden.
In St. Louis, the Mayor of Emperor Spencer supports that for pausing new building permits for data centers for data centers, while the city develops new regulations, not completely prohibiting the data structure completely.
“While I am concerned about the effects of environmental data, life, liveliness and urbanity,” I recognize their importance, amtech and health care, and my office works closely with the Committee in order to speed up the responsible regulations to speed up. “
The Missouri is nearly right now 50 active data centers With most located in Kansas City and St. Louisu.
