World's Largest Data Center Project Abandoned!
AI's hidden cost is revealed as record heat shuts down a UK supercomputer, US grids buckle, and a massive Virginia data center project collapses under local opposition.
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37.7°C — it knocked out a national-level AI supercomputer.
At the end of June, the UK recorded its hottest June in history. Cambridge University’s Dawn — one of the fastest AI supercomputers in Britain — had its cooling system collapse under the heat. Thousands of GPUs were forced to take a “high-temperature vacation” for over a week, and more than 350 research projects slammed on the brakes.
The most surreal part? One of the projects running on this supercomputer was a climate change simulation.
The machine built to predict global warming was knocked unconscious by global warming.
Almost at the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, Americans’ electricity bills were also burning up.
An old brick factory in Ohio saw its monthly electricity bill jump from $1,600 to $12,000. The culprit wasn’t inflation — it was the AI data center that had sprung up next door.
After burning for 141 years, it could no longer afford the electricity.
This is not an isolated case. PJM, America’s largest grid serving 67 million people, saw capacity prices surge more than 10-fold in two years. Nearly one-third of Americans now say they “can’t afford the electricity bill.”
Last week, under the crushing heatwave, PJM was forced to roll out its ultimate contingency plan — rolling blackouts.
AGI hasn’t arrived yet, but ordinary people’s electricity has already been taken by AI.
The Americans who had their power stolen are starting to fight back.
The first to fall was the project that billed itself as “the world’s largest” data center campus.
