New Jersey hits data center powering Microsoft Copilot with $1m fine after drone expose 62 secretly-installed gas…
- New Jersey issues $1.07m fine for failure to obtain permits to run gas generators
- DataOne campus running Microsoft's AI was using 62 of them illegally
- DataOne "disagree[s]" but has 45 days to obtain the relevant permits
A Microsoft partner has been hit with a $1.07 million fine by the US state of New Jersey after allegedly installing no fewer than 62 natural gas generators on-site without obtaining the correct environmental permits.
The state found out about the generators after a local farmer photographing a neighboring golf course noticed equipment appearing on the campus, which led to an investigation and the deployment of a thermal drone, which at the time, observed 45 of the 62 generators in operation.
The fine was based on New Jersey's Air Pollution Control Act, which requires both reconstruction permits to install the generators and operating certificates to run them. Neither had been obtained across all 62...
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