what are we doing here? jfc
love the idea to put a moratorium on data centers. absolutely hate the way bernie and his team are echoing and reifying the deceptive arguments of ai companies.
we were criticizing media for “what does the ai say?” stories two years ago. bernie doesn’t get a pass.
#tech #ai #claude #anthropic #berniesanders #politics #datacenters
Ireland is living the paradox of digital success.
A global hub for Google, Meta, LinkedIn and others — yet now facing grid instability as data centers approach a quarter of national electricity consumption.
Digital infrastructure is never abstract. It’s physical, energy‑intensive, and deeply political.
#DataCenters #Ireland #Energy #AIInfrastructure #Cloud #Sustainability #TechPolicy #DigitalEconomy #Analytics #AI
This hit close to home. 📍 Spartanburg isn’t anti-tech or anti-growth — it’s part of one of the strongest industrial regions in the country. 🏭⚡
What happened here wasn’t fear of AI 🤖 or #datacenters — it was a deal that didn’t land as a true win/win. 🤝 Data centers can be a boom for local economies, there's already proof.
💡 We should want more data centers built, but structure matters just as much as capital.
#ArtificialIntelligence #Infrastructure
https://stemsearchgroup.com/the-3-billion-lesson-from-spartanburg-how-the-next-phase-of-ai-infrastructure-gets-built/
Register now: The energy imperative driving the push toward orbital data centers
“Pennsylvania has become an epicenter of the data center boom in the United States, with over 50 campuses in development. Eleven of them are slated for Lackawanna County alone. Archbald, with six campuses composed of 51 massive buildings, has the most of any municipality in the state”
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deep dive reporting
#spotlightpa #Grist #PA #datacenters
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/pennsylvania-data-centers-archbald-ai-evictions-environment/
Hot take: Sam Altman is both right AND wrong about AI water.
Right: The viral "17 gallons per query" claim is genuinely false. Actual per-query water is 10-50ml.
Wrong: Calling all concerns "mostly fake" ignores 17 billion gallons of real consumption, 4x projected growth, and communities losing their water supply.
The truth requires nuance tech CEOs rarely offer and activists sometimes oversimplify.
Full engineer's fact-check: resistancezero.com/article-20.html
The Dalles, Oregon: Google's data centers consume 29% of the city's total water.
Mesa, Arizona: Communities under drought restrictions fight new data center permits.
Bessemer, Alabama: A $14.5B campus wants 2 million gallons/day from a system that can't provide it.
Sam Altman says water concerns are "fake." These communities would disagree.
I fact-checked his claims against peer-reviewed research and corporate sustainability reports.
resistancezero.com/article-20.html
«…In one measurement run, his team divided the area around a data center into three zones based on distance. Zone one, closest to the facility, measured 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than zone two on average.
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Wilmeth, the chair of the House Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, sees data centers through the lens of national security. “If we prevent it, if we stifle it in the United States and in Arizona, Russia will lead. China will lead. This is an international space race for the 21st century.”…»
Imagine that. A race toward overheating the planet and we might not be the ones to win it. Oh, boo hoo. Let them win. If that means we approach extinction more slowly, well, we can live with that.
#climate #heat #warming #extinction #power #AI #LLMs #GlobalWarming #RecordHeat #DataCenters #sustainability #GreenAI #AZ #Arizona #Phoenix #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #China #Russia #security #NationalSecurity
Record early heat in #Phoenix? Just wait till we get more #DataCenters.
Fuck you, #TPUSA for pouring millions of dollars in our state to get pro-data center, fossil-fuel loving jackasses on the SRP board. You suck.
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