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Heat Adds to Strains on Areas with Data Centres, Raising the Temperature on AI Debates
City Council voted 10-0 to block further data center growth for a year as residents raised concerns about water use, power demand and neighborhood impacts.
- Tensions flared in Lowell this week after police temporarily detained a 14-year-old girl at a city-led community forum on data center zoning, prompting Lowell Mayor Erik Gitschier to defend his actions to local radio station WCAP.
- The Markley Group built its facility on the site of an abandoned Prince spaghetti factory in Lowell, but relations soured about two years ago when the company added surveillance cameras and cooling tanks near residential properties.
- Heat waves pose a "real risk" of power outages, researcher Jonathan Koomey said, while Shaolei Ren of the University of California, Riverside, called extreme heat "almost the worst situation for data center operation."
- In response to opposition, the Lowell City Council voted 10-0 in February to pass a moratorium blocking further data center expansion for a year, addressing community concerns in a working-class neighborhood.
- The Markley Group maintains that generators serve as a "last line of defense" during outages and has planted more than 2,000 trees to improve air quality, though Koomey says the controversy remains "very much a local phenomenon.
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Heat adds to strains on areas with data centers, raising the temperature on AI debates
Extreme heat like the weather sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up energy demands for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.
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