What's the use of data centers?

Fanning the flames of a fire that is already burning with an intensity that makes breathing difficult and acting rationally a challenging task.

Crunching more numbers in shorter time rearranging the world more efficiently for what?

Industrial productivity gains which result in increasing output numbers while payable demand is lagging farer and farer behind?

Few who earn more money to consummate what is already too much of everything while many have nothing at all?

Destroying nature in even shorter time spans than before while forgetting about what once was known as "climate catastrophe"?

Finally erupting in violence because the heat leaves no place where one can just exist without being permanently thrown into existencial pain?

It's great to see that more and more people in the US resist against the billionaires who want to degrade humans to data sets giving them all the power they need to turn the world into digital wastelands.

#AI #DataCenters #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/wake-up-and-face-the-heat/

Researchers warn these “heat islands” could have a “remarkable influence on communities and regional welfare,” and affect more than 340 million people. https://fortune.com/2026/04/01/ai-data-centers-heat-island-hyperscalers/?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=social_share

#Ai #climate #crisis #datacenters

The problem isn't AI. The red flags are who is pushing it, and how it is being pushed:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ObciXcRd-Yc

#AI #datacenters

Data centres per million people in OECD and partner countries, 2025

Greece sits near the bottom, at roughly ~2 data centres per million people — well below the OECD average of ~7, highlighting a significant digital infrastructure gap relative to peers.

#AI #Europe #Grecce #DataCenters #property #RealEstate #PropTech #Eurozone

> The poll, conducted by U.K.-based research firm Public First surveying over 18,000 people across 15 countries, shows that just over half of American respondents — as well as majorities of people responding in Japan, India and Vietnam — still see the U.S. as the dominant AI superpower.

But those in the 11 other countries, including close U.S. allies such as France, Canada and the United Kingdom, see China as the leader. In Germany, only 23 percent of people saw the U.S. as dominant.

#politico #AI #china #unitedstates
#japan #india #vietnam #uk
#france #canada #germany
#nigeria #brazil #mexico
#singapore #poland #indonesia
#southafrica #anthropic
#davidsacks #fda #publicfirst
#meta #markzuckerberg
#darioamodei #pharmacueticals
#datacenters

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/15/people-around-the-world-see-a-winner-on-ai-and-its-not-the-us-00960930

#Petition from #ConsumerReports: Stop Outrageous #ElectricRate Hikes - Tell state leaders to hold utility companies accountable

https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20260512-takebackyourpowerbill

#activism #DataCenters #ConsumerProtection