Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
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Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#2Good. But will RAM prices go down again? I don't want to pay 2.5x
as much as I did ~2 years ago, for the same piece of hardware ...
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#3Such a law illustrates the beauty of federalism. Texas and other states can have them if they want them! Maine has not nearly as much space and much more natural beauty to protect [per square mile], so it can and maybe should have a different set of rules. That's cool.
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#4I live in Maine. Commercial power is crazy expensive. I don't know why you would build an AI datacenter here in the first place. As an obsessive self-hoster, I've researched building one, and there is no universe in which it makes sense. New Hampshire and Massachusetts are so nearby latency-wise.
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#5Will a US state get the same kind of criticism a European country gets about push-back against big tech?
Maine will go bankrupt? Maine will turn into a barren backwater? There will be no jobs?
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#6Such a law illustrates the beauty of federalism. Texas and other states can have them if they want them! Maine has not nearly as much space and much more natural beauty to protect [per square mile], so it can and maybe should have a different set of rules. That's cool.
Don't know why people think Texas doesn't have natural beauty. It's a huge state.
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#7Did any major data centers want to locate in Maine, or is this just an empty gesture?
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Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#9Such a law illustrates the beauty of federalism. Texas and other states can have them if they want them! Maine has not nearly as much space and much more natural beauty to protect [per square mile], so it can and maybe should have a different set of rules. That's cool.
Don't know why people think Texas doesn't have natural beauty. It's a huge state.
Yeah, sorry that wasn't intended as a slight to Texas. Texas just does have a lot of barren landscape where datacenters wouldn't offend as much. I modified it to make that clear. Also, energy is playing a role here.
Re: Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
#10This is a big win for the progressive community.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/datacenters-...
Nice to see some success for their ideas.