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San Francisco pauses new data centres while Europe struggles to build them

San Francisco's supervisors unanimously approved a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, to study energy, water and air quality impacts, while Europe faces the opposite problem of grids too strained to connect new capacity.

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