New Hampshire Bulletin: How a data center proposal ignited opposition in Nottingham and surrounding communities . “Discussion on a proposed data center in Nottingham began to flow in earnest a little over a week ago. By Wednesday, May 27, an online petition had accumulated thousands of signatures, and protesters were preparing signs decrying the proposal. Some reached out directly to the […]

Reuters: SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment. “Japan’s SoftBank Group (9984.T), opens new tab will invest €45 billion over the next five years ​in a push to build up artificial intelligence infrastructure ‌in France, the company announced on Saturday. SoftBank said the investment, described as the biggest of its kind so far in Europe, would be made ​in […]

TechSpot: Elizabeth Warren wants to tax AI data centers as power bills climb. “In a Time magazine op-ed published Wednesday, the Massachusetts Democrat argued that the economic gains tied to AI are not being broadly shared. Instead, she said, they are flowing to a narrow set of firms and executives while ordinary consumers face rising costs linked to the technology’s expansion.”

"And in #Texas... Lifelong #Republican voters in rural communities are so furious about sprawling #DataCenters consuming their farmland, water, & power during droughts and blackouts that they are openly saying they will vote for #Democrat James Talarico ... in the #US Senate race... a reporter asked one Republican voter ... her answer was immediate: “My entire community is going to break rank. Everybody, all of us. We’ve had enough.”"
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-news-updates-a

#GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA

As many people are beginning to notice, the concerns, situations, and injustices the luddites were fighting seem very similar to what we face today. And it was a lot:

* Rampant exploitation by the ‘entrepreneurial’ classes
* Devaluation of skills that had taken years to acquire
* Spiraling costs of living vs plummeting wages
* Extreme concentration of wealth and resources into the hands of the few
* Being shut out of and removed from legitimate means to challenge their situation
* Deregulation and increasingly dangerous working conditions
* Crimalisation of any act of resistance
* A state that actively oppressed them with military and militia
* The destruction of the environment by new highly polluting factories
* The annihilation of their businesses, way of life, and communities
* Homelessness, starvation and extreme poverty

Sounds depressingly familiar, doesn’t it?

#luddites #ai #DataCenters

from: unsupervisable.com/luddites.html

Louisville Public Media: Massive new data center project announced in northeastern Kentucky. “TeraWulf says the Muskie Data Campus will eventually need more than one gigawatt of electricity, or enough to support more than 800,000 average homes for an entire year. The bitcoin mining company expects to need its first 500 megawatts by the second half of 2028 and the rest in 2030.”

“Pax Silica” = supply chain #Imperialism https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Silica

#Ai #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Palantir #PaxSilica #surveillance