{"slug": "as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them", "title": "As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them", "summary": "As datacenters expand, public opposition to them is growing, according to a report from The Register. The article highlights that communities are increasingly resisting new datacenter projects due to concerns about environmental impact, noise, and resource consumption. This opposition is prompting companies and policymakers to address these issues as demand for AI and cloud services continues to rise.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nAi and ML\n\n#### Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU\n\nEU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe\n\nMark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'\n\n-\nAI AND ML\n\n#### Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer\n\n30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash\n\nOr how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription\n\nAgent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan\n\n-\n#### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it\n\nNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/08/10/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them/5285449", "published_at": "2026-08-10 14:15:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 00:47:17.317711+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["The Register"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them.jsonld"}}