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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/new-hampshire-bulletin-how-a-data-center-proposal-ignited-opposition-in-nottingham-and-surrounding-communities/
New Hampshire Bulletin: How a data center proposal ignited opposition in Nottingham and surrounding communities

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 …

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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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/reuters-softbank-to-build-up-ai-data-centres-in-france-with-major-investment/
Reuters: SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment

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 pus…

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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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/techspot-elizabeth-warren-wants-to-tax-ai-data-centers-as-power-bills-climb/
TechSpot: Elizabeth Warren wants to tax AI data centers as power bills climb

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 …

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US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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"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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/louisville-public-media-massive-new-data-center-project-announced-in-northeastern-kentucky/
Louisville Public Media: Massive new data center project announced in northeastern Kentucky

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, …

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@xgranade If it was a step by step graduation of Search Engine tech, then calling it LLM, AI, or any other removed moniker, would suffice.

But the rapid acceleration of crypto, opening up the wealthiest #TechBros to compete with #FossilFuels in cornering #energy markets, led inevitably toward more #Capitalism abuses, with #AI #DataCenters doing 'all-of-the-above(below)'. Add #ConflictOfInterest #politicians writing policy for said abusers, and further abuses compile.

They'll continue to do this, in Western Capitalism countries, along with global shifts toward authoritarian autocracies (#ClimateCrisis is another major topic), until there's only them left, to reemerge from their luxury bunkers. The 99% are CLEARLY expendable. So if you have offspring, look toward #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - like those piggybacking off of the #BeltAndRoadInitiative in the #GlobalSouth - and root there.

The top five hyperscalers are spending over $600 billion on data center infrastructure in 2026, causing 14-year grid connection delays in Northern Virginia. Infrastructure companies are now racing to convert server facilities into active grid stabilizers. #AI #TechNews #DataCenters #Energy
https://blazetrends.com/ais-600-billion-power-crisis-why-data-centers-must-save-the-electric-grid/?fsp_sid=23237
AI’s $600 Billion Power Crisis: Why Data Centers Must Save the Electric Grid

The top five hyperscalers are pouring over $600 billion into data center infrastructure in 2026. This unprecedented buildout by Amazon, Microsoft, Google,

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