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‘Data centers can be located in exhausted open pits’: Russia eyes 300-meter-deep coal mines to shield server infrastructure from Ukrainian drones

Russia is considering abandoned coal mines for data centers, citing potential security and cooling benefits amid drone attacks and infrastructure concerns.

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Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity.

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