The Birmingham City Council voted to again hear from residents concerning proposals to temporarily suspend the construction of energy-intensive, large-scale data centers.
The council held a public hearing on such a proposal Jan. 13, and speakers overwhelmingly supported a moratorium on the centers.
As the use of artificial intelligence and cloud computing have proliferated, so has the need for ever-larger data centers. These new, massive server warehouses are often called hyperscale centers, and they use substantial energy resources…