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EcoDataCenter, a Swedish sustainable data center company, has received $478 million in funding to expand its operations and build more environmentally friendly data centers.

Silicon Valley giants were once the most vocal advocates and generous financiers of clean energy investments, but they may now become the biggest villains in the renewable energy revolution. With surging energy demands from artificial intelligence, emissions from large tech companies have spiked, making their lofty decarbonization goals increasingly elusive. Tech giants, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, are pushing for greater deployment of renewable energy infrastructure and research into new forms of clean energy, but keeping up with the enormous energy demands of AI is a daunting task.

With the surge in demand for artificial intelligence and large-scale data processing, data centers, as the infrastructure for these operations, are having an increasingly negative environmental impact. A recent research report delves into the environmental and regulatory issues associated with AI data centers, highlighting the urgent need for improvements in the current policy framework to address the growing consumption of energy and water resources. Image source note: The image is generated by AI and licensed through the service provider Midjourney. The research report emphasizes significant gaps in the current approaches of the EU and the US in this field, calling for countries to develop more robust regulations.

Meta is investing $10 billion to build a large AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. This data center will be the largest of Meta's 20 data centers, with construction expected to begin this month and continue until 2030. It is reported that it will be optimized to support Meta's AI workloads, aiding in the operation of Meta's technologies including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.