Northern Nevada’s full-throttle race to embrace data centers received thoughtful push back from an eclectic group of citizens this week during a Reno City Council meeting.
They gathered Wednesday morning to persuade their elected officials to agree to a six-month moratorium on the approval process to ensure new data centers aren’t unduly stressing the power grid and community water supply, or otherwise harming the environment in one of the nation’s fastest-warming regions.
Many who spoke acknowledged that, in a digital world increasingly embracing power-consumer artificial intelligence technology, data centers are a reality and, indeed, represent an inescapable future…