In California, voters in the city of Monterey Park have approved a measure that permanently bans the construction of new data centers, defeating a proposal to build a massive new artificial intelligence site near a residential neighborhood. It’s the first time a municipality has banned a data center through a direct ballot initiative.

This comes as new research from the U.N. University warns that, by 2030, global data centers are projected to consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity — or nearly triple what Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria consume annually, combined. The report also finds data centers’ water footprint will equal the basic annual domestic water needs of all 1.3 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa.