Crusoe confirmed that it sold its unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google

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Data centers are important for US success

Data centers are good for local communities

Data centers don't cause energy prices to go up

Data center bans are bad for US competitiveness

Data centers are worth it because they create jobs

Data centers don't actually consume that much water

AI is worth the energy it uses

Banning data centers is going to hurt the US economy

Foreign influence campaigns are impacting public opinion on data centers

Towns should be able to reject AI data centers

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Effingham County, Georgia residents filed a RICO lawsuit against county commissioners, county leaders and OpenAI, alleging they conspired to get OpenAI's 'Project Camellia' AI data center approved

The growth of AI data centers is not inherently negative and should not be limited for its own sake

Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI held talks in 2026 to rent Nvidia Blackwell GPU capacity from European neocloud operators, including potential clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs

European neocloud operators borrow capital against Nvidia GPUs as loan collateral, leaving operators dependent on Nvidia chip allocations and lender risk assessments

In late September 2026, Anthropic agreed to pay $3.4 billion to acquire commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas-fired generators from San Antonio-based supplier OnePWR Solutions

On November 2, 2026, Anthropic revealed that it committed to spending nearly $900 billion through 2045 for computing power, chips, data centers, and land infrastructure

Anthropic originally intended to buy power as a customer of OnePWR Solutions before opting instead to take over orders OnePWR Solutions had placed two years earlier with Caterpillar Inc.

Anthropic's $3.4 billion generator purchase represents the largest known single purchase of power-generation equipment by an artificial intelligence laboratory

Anthropic's agreement with OnePWR Solutions included engineering and construction capabilities to install the gas-fired generators, while no employees of OnePWR Solutions transferred to Anthropic

In early 2026, SpaceX-owned xAI purchased mobile gas turbines for $2 billion to rapidly deploy data center computing capacity