Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI-generated report errors
Deloitte used generative AI (Azure OpenAI GPT-4o) to help produce an independent assurance review for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. The report, published in July 2025, contained multiple errors including non-existent academic references and a fabricated court case. After the errors were flagged, Deloitte acknowledged the AI use and agreed to refund the final instalment of the A$439,000 contract. The report was corrected, but its substance and recommendations remained unchanged.
- Company involved
- Deloitte
- AI system involved
- Azure OpenAI GPT-4o
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Deloitte report for N.L. healthcare contains likely AI-generated false citations
Newfoundland and Labrador's $1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan, authored by Deloitte, contains at least four citations to research papers that do not exist, likely generated by artificial intelligence. The errors were discovered after the report was published by the Department of Health and Community Services in May. Researchers named in the false citations confirmed their work was misattributed and the papers are nonexistent. The provincial government and Deloitte have not responded to questions about the report.
- Company involved
- Deloitte
- AI system involved
- Azure OpenAI
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Microsoft and xAI data centers face growing complaints from nearby residents - TechRadar
Microsoft and xAI data centers emitted persistent low-frequency noise, vibration, and air pollution that affected nearby residents.
- Company involved
- Microsoft and xAI
- AI system involved
- Microsoft Fairwater facility and xAI Southaven data center
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Residents raise noise concerns over Amazon data centers - Yahoo
The data center's operations caused noise that disturbed nearby residents.
- Company involved
- Amazon
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N.J.’s largest AI data center hit with a stunning $1M fine for pollution - nj.com
The data center emitted pollution affecting nearby residents.
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DataOne Data Center in Vineland Sparks Protests, Microsoft Under Scrutiny
DataOne Data Center di Vineland Tuai Protes Warga, Microsoft Disorot - Telset.id
The DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, is operating without permits, using gas turbines that cause air and noise pollution. It was built to supply computing power to Microsoft through a deal with Nebius, but residents were not informed until after construction began. Microsoft is facing criticism for its role in the project.
- Company involved
- DataOne
- AI system involved
- DataOne data center
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Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise
Residents of Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant, Wisconsin, filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over continuous noise from its $7.3 billion Fairwater AI data centre. The complaint describes a constant hum likened to a freight train, as well as construction noise and bright light at night, and says neighbours are kept indoors and lose sleep. Microsoft had held a public Q&A about the noise without offering a fix.
- Company involved
- Microsoft
- AI system involved
- Fairwater AI data centre
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Microsoft agrees to $2.5M settlement over Leesburg Data Center emissions - WFXRtv
During a power outage caused by substation failure, the Leesburg Data Center operated 62 emergency engines that exceeded permitted emissions limits for NOx, CO, VOC, PM10, and PM2.5, affecting air quality for nearby residents.
- Company involved
- Microsoft
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Amazon fined $10,000 for environmental violations at data centers in Hermiston and Boardman
Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality fined Amazon Data Services $10,400 for violating air and water pollution permits at its data centres in Hermiston and Boardman in 2023 and 2024, after reports that their operations had affected local air and water quality.
- Company involved
- Amazon
- AI system involved
- Hermiston and Boardman data centres
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Brown water, dust and loud noises: Louisa homeowner sues Amazon over data center construction
Austin Newsom, who lives across Route 33 from Amazon's second data centre campus in Louisa County, Virginia, sued Amazon over construction that began in March 2025. He reported loud noise around the clock, dust clouds from dump trucks, and tap water from his well turning muddy brown on and off for months. His neighbour's property was bought by Amazon.
- Company involved
- Amazon
- AI system involved
- Northeast Creek data centre campus
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Why Memphis Residents Don’t Have Power but SpaceX’s Data Center Does - Emerald Book
The data center's private microgrid kept it powered during a storm, while 35,000 residents lost electricity.
- Company involved
- SpaceXAI
- AI system involved
- Colossus
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Microsoft and xAI Sued by Residents Over Data Center Noise
Microsoft dan xAI Digugat Warga atas Kebisingan Data Center - Telset.id
Microsoft and xAI are facing lawsuits from residents over noise from data centers in Wisconsin and Mississippi. At least six similar cases have been filed in 2026, alleging nuisance and negligence. The lawsuits highlight issues with low-frequency noise measurement and pollution from gas turbines.
- Company involved
- Microsoft and xAI
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DEQ issued air pollution violations on Spotsylvania data center campus in 2025
Virginia's environmental regulator fined Amazon Data Services $72,067.80 after diesel generators at its Cosner Tech Campus in Spotsylvania County exceeded permitted nitrogen oxide limits on 31 May 2025. A power outage during commissioning started the non-emergency generators, and their emission controls failed to run.
- Company involved
- Amazon
- AI system involved
- Cosner Tech Campus generators
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Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B…
Data center construction and operation caused noise, air pollution, and water management issues for nearby residents and schools.
- Company involved
- DataOne
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NAACP sues xAI, alleging unlawful operation of gas turbines in Southaven
The NAACP, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, alleging it ran dozens of methane gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, without a Clean Air Act permit to power its Colossus 2 AI data centre. The groups say the plant may be the largest industrial source of smog-forming nitrogen oxides in the Memphis area and that nearby, largely Black neighbourhoods bear the pollution. The US Justice Department later moved to have the case dismissed, citing national security.
- Company involved
- xAI
- AI system involved
- Colossus 2 power plant
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Amazon Limits Review Access After Mistaking Customers for AI, Bot Fallout Widens
Amazonが顧客をAIと誤認し、レビューへのアクセス制限 bot被害が拡大 - 日経クロストレンド
Since late 2025, Amazon has restricted some users from seeing more than a few product reviews after misidentifying their visits as AI crawler traffic. Affected customers must email the company and wait several business days for a response. Users are frustrated that Amazon has offered no explanation.
- Company involved
- Amazon
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AI data centers raise power and water bills for nearby residents
Research from UC Riverside shows that AI data centers consume significant water and electricity for cooling and operation. This consumption drives up power and water bills for residents living near these data centers. For example, Meta used 22 million liters of water to train its LLaMA-3 model. Companies like OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Microsoft have acknowledged the issue and committed to reducing environmental impact.
- Company involved
- OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft
- AI system involved
- GPT-4, LLaMA-3
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‘Tech Campus’ Revealed as Mega Data Center Devouring Water and Power—Residents Caught Off Guard
'기술 캠퍼스'라더니 물·전력 잡아먹는 초대형 데이터센터... 뒤늦게 안 주민들 - 한국일보
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, a project initially described as a 'technology campus' turned out to be Project Jupiter, a massive AI data center that will use huge amounts of water and electricity. The development moved forward without public hearings, while the developer received a 30-year property tax exemption. Construction was suspended by the state Supreme Court after lawsuits over excessive water extraction and the alleged forgery of resident support letters.
- AI system involved
- Project Jupiter (Stargate)
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xAI Data Center Noise Controversy, Explained - basenor.com
The xAI data center facility generated persistent noise, vibrations, and air quality issues from gas turbines, affecting nearby residents in Southaven, Mississippi.
- Company involved
- xAI
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Data Center Noise Still Shakes Homes in Great Oak, County Slow to Act
Residents of the Great Oak subdivision in Prince William County, Virginia, told the Board of County Supervisors on 10 June 2025 that the low-frequency hum from cooling systems at nearby data centres, including Amazon Web Services sites, is still shaking their homes, while a draft county noise ordinance remained long delayed.
- Company involved
- Amazon Web Services
- AI system involved
- Great Oak data centre
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Microsoft ordered nearly $2.5M fine for air pollution from Northern Virginia data center - WJLA
The data center's backup generators emitted air pollutants exceeding permit limits, affecting nearby residents.
- Company involved
- Microsoft
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AWS Cost Explorer Outage Caused by AI Bot Kiro's Autonomous Action
In December 2025, Amazon Web Services' internal AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a production environment, causing a 13-hour outage of the AWS Cost Explorer service in mainland China. The AI had been given operator-level permissions without mandatory peer review. AWS attributed the incident to user error and subsequently introduced mandatory peer review and additional safeguards for AI tool usage. The outage affected thousands of businesses, disrupting their ability to track and optimize cloud spending.
- Company involved
- Amazon Web Services
- AI system involved
- Kiro
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LLMjacking Attack Leverages Stolen Credentials to Exploit Cloud LLMs
The Sysdig Threat Research Team observed an attack where stolen cloud credentials were used to access cloud-hosted large language model services. The attackers targeted a vulnerable Laravel system to obtain credentials, then used them to invoke models like Anthropic Claude on AWS Bedrock. They intended to sell LLM access to other cybercriminals, potentially costing victims over $46,000 per day. The attack involved checking credentials against ten AI services and using a reverse proxy to manage access.
- AI system involved
- Claude (v2/v3) on AWS Bedrock
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AWS averts AI supply chain disaster after malicious code injected into Amazon Q Developer
AWS discovered that a threat actor had inserted malicious code into the open-source repository of its AI coding assistant, Amazon Q Developer, via a misconfigured GitHub token. The malicious code was distributed with the extension but failed to execute due to a syntax error, averting a potentially catastrophic supply chain attack. AWS promptly revoked credentials, removed the code, and released a patched version, while also enhancing security measures for its build service. The incident highlights the risks of AI agents with broad access and the importance of securing development pipelines.
- Company involved
- Amazon Web Services
- AI system involved
- Amazon Q Developer
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