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I gave @betakit.com my thoughts on what will be one of the biggest stories of this year. No surprise, it’s the ongoing impacts of the data centre boom on regular people — and the backlash that’s already brewing.

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Energy consumption will become a (bigger) political issue “Data centres have been treated as a part of the AI story, but they’ve become a story in their own right. There are the energy and water demands, community impacts, and questions about whether it really makes sense to be building so many. It increasingly looks like their contribution to higher power bills is poised to become a major issue in the US midterm elections in November 2026.” —Paris Marx, tech critic, author, and host of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM