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Scared for the future of the USA. 😢
Data center developers and AI companies do not get to say what is best for communities. Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan, spokesperson of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, on sovereignty and self-determination at the People’s AI Assembly, co-hosted with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social.
While Alaskans have been clear they don’t want data centers here driving up our energy costs, Dan’s promoting them as his family business profits off them. At a time when energy costs are crushing Alaska families, this is as self-serving as it gets.
Dan Sullivan says Alaska’s ideal for data centers
While Dan Sullivan says Alaska's ideal for data centers, his family’s multibillion-dollar company has been selling them specialized chemicals.
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Nearly 5 MILLION TONNES of wood a year burned to power ONE datacentre. We thrived for centuries before TikTok and AI www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Jonathan Foyle@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 14h agoData centres- no comment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Living with 230 data centers on the doorstep: ‘Nobody warned us what was going to happen’ english.elpais.com/economy-and-... #DataCenters #AI #affordability #inflation #economy #environment #pollution #climate #Blues
Living with 230 data centers on the doorstep: ‘Nobody warned us what was going to happen’
Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, has the highest concentration of data centers in the world. It is also the richest county in the US, with a median income of $180,000 per person
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An adviser to the Canadian PM said that one of the purposes of data centres is to create a market for fracked gas..
John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · 15h agoData centers solve two big problems for Permian oil drillers: excesses of water and fossil gas. Historically they've flared the fracked gas and injected the produced water into the ground, causing earthquakes. Now they expect data centers will burn all the gas and use the water for cooling.
Susan - whose name and voice have been changed to protect her identity - lives in social housing in Slough, where nearby data centres are disrupting her health. 🔗 read the full report at thenerve.news
Beverly and Jeff Morris lived in peace and quiet on their beautiful farm before Meta broke ground on a data center complex next door. Now, they don't have clean drinking water and are dealing with constant noise pollution.
A great resource and conversation-starting point, esp for if you’ve been working for / are helping elect candidates who have made hay about regulating data centers. The gross inequality that the tech oligarchy has produced can be addressed through local and state law, not just the feds…
asad ramzanali@asad09.bsky.social · 14h agoFrom city councils to Congress, there’s a growing desire to tax AI, but policymakers don’t always know their options. My new paper outlines 34 ways to tax AI across data centers, chips, data, AI products, automation & general tax reforms. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-pa...
OPINION | Tech companies can afford to power their facilities without spiking our bills or fouling our air. They should have to.
Commentary: We beat one data center in Pinal County. Here’s what rural Arizona wants next.
Data centers rural Arizona: Why tech companies, not consumers, should pay for the boom’s energy and infrastructure costs
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Why is Trump so committed to data centers when the public hates them? Look to little Homer City, Pa., where POTUS touted a $15 billion Amazon data center and its polluting gas plant -- not long before his son-in-law Jared Kushner's fund bought in My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/hype...
A climate disaster rises in Western Pa. Jared Kushner is here for it. | Will Bunch
As the world burns from climate change, a monster gas plant/data center in Pennsylvania is backed by Kushner’s petrodollars.
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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...
How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
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This & nested, and seriously, the ad buys used to at least make money circulate — ad spends became salaries for station staffers & contracts for actors, crew, and ad producers. The money used to get back into the economy. But consultants are already wealthy. They’re not spending, they’re hoarding.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 6h agoOnce mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
"In the end, barely $13 of your $100 buys real airtime or digital ads." Incredible. Think about that next time one of those "strategic consultants" appears on TV because he or she really knows politics.
Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h agoWe found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
The current PHP shitshow is especially vexing because on the one hand, it is very much a big deal, but on the other, there is no widespread SUCCESSFUL exploitation of this vulnerability YET. Despite the latter, a whole lot of asshats are hyping the former for clicks and soundbytes.
Bad news for all of us - in a post-AI era, we're going to have more days like these where we try and unmuddle the PHP chaos. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Prepare for more website shutdowns in the age of AI – but human inaction is the real culprit | Chris Stokel-Walker
I’ve been banging the drum about these vulnerabilities for years. It will take more than a handful of exhausted developers to keep us safe, says author and journalist Chris Stokel-Walker
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“If every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked ... Not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall.”
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h agowrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
And Ellison is an investor in X and Tesla. At some point, it just feels like the same five guys giving each other the same $1 billion over and over.
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 11h agoFrom bad to worse
Skydance is $80 billion in debt following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Musk Invests $1 Billion In Skydance As It Stares Down High Debt After WBD Acquisition
Skydance is $80 billion in debt following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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This is the singularity to worry about—CBS, CNN, X, TikTok etc all essentially controlled by the same ethically bankrupt owners.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 11h agoNews just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.
After we remove the regime from power, we need to break up the media monopolies the fascist oligarchs have purchased.
Semafor@semafor.com · 12h ago🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance, providing a much-needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
So, the real question: will HBO (part of Skydance) still stream Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary, now that Musk is an investor in Skydance...
Semafor@semafor.com · 12h ago🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance, providing a much-needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.
American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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Elon Musk claims the long-delayed Tesla Roadster "can basically fly like a rocket". In TheOtherMac, Jeff does a deep dive into why that's just not true (even if there are many cool things about the demo), what it'll cost, and how this fits into a Tesla/SpaceX merger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9K7...
Tesla's "Flying" Roadster [The AmberMac Show Ep088]
Elon Musk just revealed the long-delayed Tesla Roadster with claims "it can basically fly like a rocket". In TheOtherMac, Jeff does a deep dive into why that's just not true (even if there are many…
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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous promises new flying Tesla will be certified as safe to operate in FL, suggests it could be used to hop over golf carts at retirement mecca The Villages (where the residents frequently wreck those golf carts). www.clickorlando.com/news/florida...
Florida Gov. DeSantis vows to ‘make sure’ that Tesla’s new flying car is legal
Shortly after the reveal of Tesla’s new Roadster sports car last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vowed to “make sure” that it will be legal in the Sunshine State.
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Guess the launch didn't go all that well in Austin lmao
Electrek@electrek.co · yesterdayTesla wants to sell you a useless car with no steering wheel this year
Watch Tesla self-driving v14.3.12 blow through a stop sign at a railroad crossing at 40 km/h! It’s no wonder that the Robotaxi is programmed to avoid the railroad crossings in its geofence! Musk’s defective should be banned.
How impossibly naive can you be about the AI industry?? 'the country’s prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said attracting investment was a “top priority” and “the value of the data economy extends far beyond direct investment”. He said the Google deal would “deliver lasting benefits for both parties”'
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 16h ago‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
A shame politicians don't listen to experts: Kangasharju, head of comp sci at the U of Helsinki: “They are international companies serving international customers. Very little corporate taxes go to Finland. Datacentres ultimately have very little benefit for others except the datacentre operator.”
