Data Center Backlash Goes From Fringe to Structural Constraint
Local opposition to AI data centers just sixupled in six months, and it's starting to win. Also today: Nautobot fixes a decade-old cabling headache, NVIDIA cuts the CPU out of GPU communication, and an astronomer's math says the universe is either crowded with life or empty of it, nothing in between.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Friday, July tenth. Okay, I need to start with the astronomer's math problem today, because it's too good to bury at the end of the show — apparently the universe is either crowded with life or completely empty, and there's basically no comfortable middle ground.
I have thoughts on that one, and we will absolutely get there. But first, there's a story that explains why yesterday's weird little land-swap story wasn't actually a one-off.
Right, the Boulder City thing, where a rejected data center just quietly moved onto federal land next door.
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