Pivot to AIBondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals
Research for the Front Lines10am - 12 pm: 🤖The rise of and resistance to generative AI and data centres
12pm - 1pm: 🥗 Community lunch (provided)
1pm - 3pm: 🛠️ DIY server workshop
Concordia SHIFT Centre
JW McConnell Bldg (LB-145)
1400, Blvd de Maisonneuve W, Montréal
✍️Register: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/YDgA51N0XU6GSaXIIj5mjLBCf+KGCyOTVyPxwsBWAis/
Event info: https://evenement.facil.services/events/2df80f2d-a263-40d4-b6f8-9005c97acba8
@ResistanceMontreal
#workshop #server #selfhosting #datacentres #datacenters #GenAI #surveillance
Ready to push against surveillance-driven corporations profiting on stolen land, stolen resources and YOUR STOLEN DATA? 👀❌💸
Join @scienceforthepeople and @ResearchForTheFrontLines for a free, two-part beginner-friendly workshop that breaks down the mysteries of servers and guides you through the benefits and basics of building your own at-home/in-community server. 🛠️👩🏻💻
Online (EST) and in-person
Saturday, February 28
#workshop #server #selfhosting #datacentres #datacenters #GenAI #surveillance
Paria sans portefeuille"In these circumstances, the job of investment bankers is to convince lenders to assume risks they do not really understand. ‘We’ve seen this story a million times’, the analyst warns, not least in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis."
After #AI
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/after-ai
#artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #AIhype #AIbubble #assetBubbles #dataCentres
R. Scott (i47i) 
Microsoft puts communities at the centre of its AI...
> Microsoft has revealed a five-point plan designed to help the US “build transformative infrastructure in a way that strengthens, rather than strains, the local communities where it takes root,” according to Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft.
> The initiative, called Community-First AI Infrastructure, aims address growing concerns around the local impact of data centres. These include pressure on residential electricity prices – at a time when the International Energy Agency estimates that US data centre electricity demand will more than triple by 2035 – as well as tightening water supplies, exacerbated by ageing municipal systems and long-standing infrastructure gaps.
https://www.technologyrecord.com/article/microsoft-puts-communities-at-the-centre-of-its-ai-infrastructure-strategy #datacentres #AI #artificialintelligence
Lowyat.NETTM Secures 280 MW Power Supply For Johor Data Centre #datacentres #tm
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/378249/tm-secures-280-mw-power-supply-johor-data-centre/
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesNetflix, Spotify, Office365, Google services, AWS, iCloud...even plenty of #selfhosting is just a hypervised VPS slice...
...folks get in conniptions about #AI #Datacentres yet are totally happy with their toys (which is presently about 50%)
eicker.news ᳇ tech news#Meta has signed deals with three #nuclear companies to provide over 6 gigawatts of power to its #datacentres. The deals include 2.1 gigawatts from #Vistra’s existing reactors, 1.2 gigawatts from #Oklo’s small modular reactors, and 690 megawatts from #TerraPower’s reactors, with options for more. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-deals-with-three-nuclear-companies-for-6-plus-gw-of-power/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing
Thomas DugaroThis afternoon I am invited to an informal book launch with the most inspiring @gerrymcgovern for his book
"99th Day: A Warning About Technology", a book about #AI, #datacentres, #bitcoin, #mining and Big Tech’s growth-at-all-costs mindset to ecological destruction, toxic waste and deep social harm.
"99th Day: A Warning About Technology", a book about #AI, #datacentres, #bitcoin, #mining and Big Tech’s growth-at-all-costs mindset to ecological destruction, toxic waste and deep social harm.