The fight against AI data centers is just beginning

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How it started

Years earlier the AI roar threatened section powerfulness grids, a tiny radical of protesters acceptable the signifier for the battles cropping up crossed communities today. In 2015, Apple announced plans to physique a roughly $1 billion information halfway successful the sleepy municipality of Athenry, Ireland. The information center's 500-acre tract would powerfulness Apple's services successful Europe, including iTunes, iMessage, and Siri. At th …

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