#Google to tap into gas plant for #AIDatacenter in sharp turn from climate goals

#Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

Dara Kerr, Thu 2 Apr 2026

"According to Crusoe’s 465-page permit application, the power plant would emit as much as 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide, a primary driver of climate change, per year. For comparison, the entire city of San Francisco emits about 4m tons of carbon dioxide annually."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wZFzr

#GoogleSucks #AISucks #Datacenters #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #FossilFuels #FossilFools

RE: https://glammr.us/@Anneheathen/116336606391502734

I predict this will go exactly as sideways as everyone knows it will.

#publishing #AISucks #AIslop

More of this, please!

#Sweden goes #BackToBasics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

By Undark Magazine, April 2026

"In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as #reading and #writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical #books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools #CellphoneFree throughout the country."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/

#NeoLuddite #RealLearning #AISucks #NoPhonesInSchool #PaperAndPen #NoAI #RealLearning

If there was a Best Internet Comedian award, this guyy should win it. Watch his other videos on other technology too.

https://youtu.be/WAUnmQt2Z7Y

#ai #aislop #aibubble #aisucks

Mystery #Humming Noise Heard Across US States

By Marni Rose McFall
Mar 25, 2026 at 01:21 PM EDT

"Americans across several states are reporting hearing a strange humming noise in their neighborhoods, and residents think they know the culprit: #DataCenters.

But these centers are especially resource hungry—particularly for electricity and water—which has led to concerns for residents.

According to a study from The Environmental and Energy Study Institute, data centers emit sounds 'from the humming of cooling systems, rumbling of diesel generators, and whirring of fans, which can be heard for hundreds of feet around them.'

What To Know

In Vineland, New Jersey, residents have said there is a persistent humming noise they believe is coming from a nearby data center."

Read more:
https://www.newsweek.com/data-centers-mystery-humming-noise-11735566

#AIDatacenters #DataCenterMoratorium
#NoisePollution #AISucks #SurveillanceState #NoDatacenters #HyperscaleDatacenters

Scientists have found an alarming #EnvironmentalImpact of vast #DataCenters

Story by Laura Paddison, March 30, 2026

Excerpt: "They found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures increase by up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

"These increases were consistent across the globe, the researchers found. In #Mexico’s #Bajio region, for example, which has become a data center hub, the study found unexplained temperature rises of around 3.6 degrees over the last 20 years. A similar situation was seen in #AragonSpain, a European center for #hyperscale #AIDataenters, which recorded a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees which was not replicated in neighboring provinces.

"Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away, the research found, affecting more than 340 million people.

"The findings are particularly alarming, the scientists say, because AI data centers are set to boom over the next few years, and these temperature rises come as planet-warming pollution is already making #HeatWaves more extreme around the world."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-have-found-an-alarming-environmental-impact-of-vast-data-centers/ar-AA1ZL7P1

#HeatIslands #DataCenterMoratorium #GlobalWarming #NoisePollution #AISucks #SurveillanceState #NoDatacenters #HyperscaleDatacenters

More of this, please...!

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

By JOCELYN GECKER, March 31, 2026

"The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.

"Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or delete keys.

"The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments.

" 'What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?' said Phelps.

"She wanted students to understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. So, she found a few dozen old manual typewriters in thrift shops and online marketplaces, and created what her syllabus calls an 'analog' assignment."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-cornell-ce10e1ca0f10c96f79b7d988bb56448b

#LudditeClub #AnalogLearning #AISucks #DumbingUsDown

“…Unlock new possibilities in imaginative storytelling”

‘When you wish upon a star”
- Disney’s Pinocchio, Sam Altman.

#aisucks
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/openai-stock-market-flotation-profit

@the_roamer
The situation: accurately summarised by clever humans.

This is a fantastic read.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

#aisucks