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CoreWeave Inc is seeking cooperation from Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa on existing and future data center projects as she prepares to take office after campaigning for a statewide moratorium on the industry’s construction.
In a letter to Hinojosa, the company sought to work with her incoming administration on completing permitted developments and establishing standards for new projects.
"You have made clear that data center growth must work for Texas", CoreWeave co-founder and chief executive officer Michael Intrator said in the statement. "We strongly support those principles."
"We welcome the opportunity to work with your transition team on the responsible completion of permitted projects and on clear, durable standards for future development", he said.
Hinojosa, the first Democrat since 1990 to win an election for Texas governor, has outlined plans to "balance" the state’s business-friendly reputation with tougher regulations.
"We have always been a pro-business state in Texas, but what changes now with me as governor is it has to be a partnership that benefits Texans", Hinojosa told CNN on Thursday.
CoreWeave’s outreach comes amid growing political resistance to data center development. Democrats won in the US midterm elections in part by pledging tighter restrictions on the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
Following last week’s elections, Democrats control 29 governors’ mansions nationwide. Many are calling for statewide construction moratoriums in response to voter frustration.
Technology companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure to train and run AI, accelerating the global data center buildout. Communities have raised concerns about the land and electricity required, rising energy costs and whether projects will deliver local economic benefits.
Opposition also brought demonstrators onto European streets on Saturday. Broadcaster RTE reported that some 2,000 people marched in Dublin, while YLE television said about 1,300 gathered in Helsinki, with additional demonstrations in several smaller Finnish towns.
Representatives from Stop Dirty Data Centres, a coalition of local democracy and climate protest groups, said they aimed to "halt the unchecked expansion of AI data centers and prevent our democracy being taken hostage by big tech industry interests."
Campaign groups from Scotland to Spain and France to Denmark joined the action, calling for a construction moratorium "until we, the people, have democratically decided what is needed to ensure AI and data centers serve people and the planet, not private greed."
The demonstrations followed a protest in Amsterdam on Friday, where hundreds of people clashed with police at a Microsoft Corp data center. One person was arrested.
Ireland has become one of Europe’s biggest data center hubs following major investments by Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google. According to the country’s official statistics agency, data centers represented 23 percent of Ireland’s total metered electricity consumption last year.
In Finland, demonstrators marched on Saturday to Google’s offices and the parliament in Helsinki city center, YLE reported.
Google announced in September its biggest-ever European investment, worth 13 billion euros (US$14.5 billion), to expand an existing Finnish data center and construct two new ones. The Confederation of Finnish Industries estimates that about 80 billion euros worth of server farms are at various stages of planning and construction in the country.
Finnish citizens have grown increasingly opposed to data centers following revelations that Google representatives cleared woodland, removed topsoil and built roads at one site before an environmental impact assessment was completed. The company building the site faces a criminal inquiry, while the government is rolling out legislation to rein in AI expansion.
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