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Chino Valley bans large-scale solar and wind projectsChino Valley became the latest Arizona community to adopt rules restricting renewable energy development when the town’s council adopted a ban on new large-scale solar and wind projects.www.kjzz.org

Here in southern Arizona alone we're looking at at ~3GW of new energy demand from planned data centers, more than the entire city of Tucson consumes. Our utility companies' energy mix is mostly fracked gas, and you're sadly mistaken if you think they're going to meet the new demand with renewables.

Hey can we stop pretending that we can meet dozens and dozens of gigawatts of new energy demand with renewables on the timeline these tech bros want them? It's just not possible. And also these AI data centers have negative social benefit.

Fair! Here’s a YouTube link. It’s too long for Bluesky 😅 youtu.be/RE341etLaE8

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Sign the PetitionStop the Data Center Assault on Vizagwww.change.org

Sorry, corrected link: youtu.be/ZRkuHKdBXgo

Video: Data center scandal - Who sent fake emails of support for Project Atlas?YouTube video by FOX23 News Tulsayoutu.be

At one point an official asks Beale about it and they’re like, we can turn that program off.

If y'all had sent a reporter to talk to us (literally the people in the photo), you would have ended up with a good, well-informed article, instead of whatever the fuck this is.

Our use of the internet simply does not scale in proportion to the proliferation of hyperscale data centers. Netflix doesn’t have a billion new movies. We’re not uploading 10000x as many cat videos or baby photos.

And these hyperscale data centers are the physical sites of the transfer and consolidation of wealth to the cruelty industry, serving surveillance, imprisonment, mass deportation, and genocide. So even if they weren’t pushing up energy costs and ruining land and water, we’d still be against them.

and 2) Because TEP relies on fracked gas for 50% of its mix (and increasing), that means way more water consumption offsite in the form of fracking and heating water into steam at the generation point. This quote from @calonews.bsky.social covers that: www.calonews.com/arizona/we-h...

So if this was true then yes, but 1) the site won't be powered by 100% renewables, they've committed to OFFSETS, meaning they'll pay for renewables elsewhere. TEP doesn't have that much renewable energy to offer. So more fracked gas, more generation, faster climate change...

“I do not think that this project will ever be fully built and running in Southern Arizona. I truly believe that with all my heart, as hard as that seems right now, and that is because I believe in our power to stop it and I believe in our power to change the system that allowed this.” Lee Ziesche