Search results for tag #datacenters
Digital Battlefield: Data Centers Become Military Targets in Israel-Iran Conflict
Iran has declared Microsoft, Google, and Amazon data centers "hostile technological infrastructure" — marking a dangerous new era where civilian technology becomes legitimate military targets.
Iranian sources published a list of dozens of regional facilities classified as suitable for attack. This escalation threatens the entire digital economy. If data centers become targets, global cloud infrastructure, undersea cables, and communication networks are all at risk.
The traditional distinction between civilian and military infrastructure is collapsing. Data centers serving millions of users simultaneously can also support military operations, process strategic information, and develop AI with military applications.
Parallel developments reveal continued cooperation between AI companies and the Pentagon despite public claims of severing ties. Court documents show plans for AI companies to train on classified defense data.
The precedent is dangerous. If Iran targets data centers today, other nations may target similar infrastructure tomorrow — in Europe, Asia, or the Americas.
https://newsgroup.site/data-centers-military-targets-israel-iran-war-ai/
#DigitalWarfare #DataCenters #IsraelIran #CyberSecurity #TechWar #CloudInfrastructure
💡 New on Nexus: Contributor Jim LaBonty writes about the risk to #DataCenters during kinetic conflicts and why they must be protected from both physical and cyberattacks. He explains the risk and potential vulnerabilities, including those involving building management systems and other cyber-physical systems.
"A Seoul Economic Daily article citing industry research firm DRAMeXchange stated that DDR4 8 Gb product prices were about $1.30 in March 2025, then rose to around $9.30 by the end of 2025, and climbed further to roughly $13 by February 2026. This pattern implies nearly a 10× increase in that timeframe."
https://en.sedaily.com/property/2026/02/27/samsung-sk-hynix-to-sharply-raise-dram-prices-in-q2
#DRAM #Semiconductors #ChipShortage #AIboom #DataCenters #Samsung #SKHynix #TechStocks #PricingPower #technology
“Sources familiar with the matter say the company (#META) could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of #layoffs at the company since it #terminated 22,000 workers over just a few months between November 2022 and early 2023.
Word of the potential #downsizing comes after Meta signaled that it was all but giving up on #VR and the #Metaverse, slashing budgets and closing studios. Instead, the company has been spending big to attract #AITalent, build #DataCenters, and acquire companies like #Moltbook.”
I note the “silver bullet” approach by a company who was founded on PHP widgets and #SocialMedia.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <http://theverge.com/business/895026/meta-laying-off-20-percent> / <https://archive.md/MlrOR>
Collecting datacenters metrics, land, energy and environmental footprint
I got the opportunity to present my ongoing work regarding datacenters #osint metrics collection during a @boavizta workshop.
I showed how this data collection process can be performed by anyone. Truely, anyone.
Why not do it, the open-source way... collaboratively at a large scale ?
Yes, this is a teaser about the #DCWatch project. More soon.
https://peertube.designersethiques.org/w/jhCmWMxiekNWLxPtA1Jprj
#Virginia #DataCenters #AI My area is facing a major loss of forested land, some of it being seized by unjustified eminent domain. Please sign to support House Bill 284 and Senate Bill 371
https://valcv.org/actions/hold-data-centers-accountable/#
Who is really footing the AI energy bill? Inside the debate about data center electricity costs, from CNBC.
"From rural Virginia to the Arizona desert, communities that once welcomed tech investment are now pushing back against data centers."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #Tech #Energy #Technology
For six months, opponents of Project Jupiter have been voicing their displeasure at county commissioners who supported public financing for the project. Commissioners have agreed to a new community meeting about the data center project. It's not clear they have the same goals in mind.
New Scientist: Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517766-why-the-worlds-militaries-are-scrambling-to-create-their-own-starlink/
From yesterday:
Two data centers will be stacked with "neuron-filled chips."
Australian startup Cortical Labs is building the first data center to use human brain cells https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518930-start-up-is-building-the-first-data-centre-to-use-human-brain-cells/ @NewScientist #datacenters
Washington State, a place which taxes Diapers but not Datacenters ...
#taxbreak #AI #datacenters
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/07/data-center-tax-break-close-to-getting-zapped-by-wa-legislature/
Banks are backing out of funding AI data centers. They no longer believe the promise of future AI gains. But grifters are too deep to back out.
Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/oracle-layoffs-tech-giant-to-slash-30-000-jobs-as-banks-pull-out-from-financing-ai-data-centres-11769996619410.html
This statement is true but is without #geopolitical, strategic, #cybersecurity that my companies specialize in. For example it was just US #datacenters acting as command and control via #AI and other computing for the US government's that were hit.
They didn't hit #Chinese datacenters like #Alibaba for example. But for that matter companies who really want security will have a secret and private facility.
The UAE will remain a huge AI and datacenter player.
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116176109080132380
Sometimes I just don't get people's... naivete? Gullibility?
I mean, even if they don't understand data centers' nefarious effects, at the very least they should wonder why they're never built where rich people live?
I so wish more White Americans would get that billionaires don't give a flying fuck about them.
#AI #datacenters #tech #pollution #taxtherich #musk
Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor
"The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports. The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the unsuspecting rural community that Musk chose to build the data center in, can’t provide the electricity the facility needs."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-facility-mordor
The Register: NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/cbre_datacenter_figures_2025/ @theregister #datacenters
#Israel #hacked traffic cameras in #Iran and used #AI to plan the attack on Iran and assassination of its leadership.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israel-hacked-tehrans-traffic-cameras-063114828.html
Could this be why #datacenters are being attacked in the #UAE #Bahrain and elsewhere?
Gerade bei Hacker News gelesen. Die realen Kosten eines #Datacenters
Ist schon echt übel, was das für Ressourcenschleudern sind, nur damit wir ein bisschen was in den #GenAI Prompt eintippen können.
Bestimmt auch was für dich @thomasfricke
More #DataCenters coming to #Illinois as residents complain about #noise, #electric bills: What to know
Story by Jason Knowles, Maggie Green, February 17, 2026
"Data centers are moving in. They power everything from #StreamingServices to #ArtificialIntelligence, but critics say they are noisy and can jack up your #ElectricBills.
Now, the I-Team and ABC News are finding that more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide, with at least 1,000 more planned. Some are in the #ChicagoIL area."
#NoisePollution #NoEnergyForAI #NoEnergyForDatacenters #BigData #TechBullies #AISucks #DatacenterResistance #WaterIsLife
Meanwhile, in #Maine...
As #dataCenters look to rural #NewEngland, Maine considers a moratorium
The bill’s advocates want answers about how data centers will affect energy costs in the region, which already has some of the country’s highest electricity prices.
By: Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder - February 23, 2026
"Maine legislators are currently considering #LD307, a resolution bill that would establish a data center coordination council to provide input and evaluate policy options for data center development in the state. The bill comes after a series of data center proposals have been met with local pushback.
"Shortly after #WiscassetME voted to pause its data center conversations in November of 2025, residents in #LewistonME, lobbied their city councilors to reject a $300 million #AIDataCenter on December 16, 2025. There, community members organized over a weekend to change city councilors’ minds from supporting the idea when it was first made public on December 11, 2025, to voting unanimously to reject it the following week.
" 'It really speaks to the importance of adequate public participation and notice,
said Dana Colihan, the co-executive director of Slingshot, an environmental health and justice organization in New England. Colihan is based in Maine and helped residents of Wiscasset and Lewiston organize. 'When community members do find out about these projects, they have really serious concerns around the impacts to their local environment and wellbeing.'
"Richard Davis was among the residents in Wiscasset and neighboring #WestportIsland who, in November of 2025, pushed Wiscasset’s town selectboard, which functions like a city council, to pause conversations about developing a $5 billion data center on a town-owned parcel of land along the Back River, which empties into Maine’s #CascoBay.
"Davis, who lives along the Back River about a mile and a half from the proposed development, said little information about the facility’s end user, utility usage, or power source was provided after it was first made public on September 16, 2025.
"This caused him and others to worry about how the site would affect the town’s resources, including the grid. Along with his neighbors, Davis started #ProtectWiscasset, a grassroots campaign opposing the data center."
#MainePol #MaineResists #ResistDatacenters #NoEnergyForAI #AISucks #ResistanceIsFertile
Politico: How data centers became the new midterms bogeyman https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/data-centers-trump-democrats-midterms-00800687 @politico #datacenters
The sales pitch I heard was that the #AI #DataCenters on Earth were too vulnerable to attack by outraged climate victims.
A good read about a proposed #datacenter in #alberta
It uses a closed loop water #cooling system which is interesting. I'd be concerned about the #emissions that will come from the onsite power generation.
#MAGA #TrumpLies #TrumpCoverup #Iran #Israel #Gaza #FuckICE #AIslop #healthcare #studentloans #taxes #NoBillionaires #datacenters #globalwarming #climate
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onyx_agate_ 14h
I don't want to starve Cuba. I don't want
to fund Israel's genocides anymore.
I don't want to build Al data centers.
I don't want ICE concentration camps
I don't want to go to war with Iran.
I want free and accessible health care.
I want student loan forgiveness. I want
cheaper housing. I want my taxes to go
to something that HELPS people.
#Maine lawmakers consider moratorium on new #Datacenters
Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published February 16, 2026
Excerpt: " 'These data centers as we have seen in other states have impacts for grid resilience, they have impacts for environmental resources, so we just wanted to take a proactive approach and do it unlike any other state has so far,' Sachs said in an interview.
"Data centers house computing networks that process information for applications including artificial intelligence. New centers have been growing across the U.S. and raising concerns about their huge appetite for #electricity and #water.
"Sachs said the proposed council would spend the next year studying the potential impact on electric ratepayers, the environment, power grid and other matters and offer guidelines for building new centers in the future.
"In the meantime, Sachs is proposing a moratorium through mid-2028 on new centers that use more than 20 megawatts of power.
"The plan was opposed by some Republican members of the Legislature's Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee."
#Repugnicans #MainePol #NoNewDatacenters #NoAI #DatacenterMoratorium #GOPSucks
Finally, someone talking about how the entire concept of AI data centers in space is embarrassingly stupid for the simple reason that SPACE IS NOT COLD AND DOES NOT CONDUCT HEAT.
"In simpler terms:
- AI startups are all unprofitable, and do not appear to have a path to sustainability.
- AI data centers are being built in anticipation of demand that doesn’t exist, and will only exist if AI startups — which are all unprofitable — can afford to pay them.
- Oracle, which has committed to building 4.5GW of data centers, is burning cash every day that OpenAI takes to set up its GPUs, and when it starts making money, it does so from a starting position of billions and billions of dollars in debt.
- Margins are low throughout the entire stack of AI data center operators — from landlords like Applied Digital to compute providers like CoreWeave — thanks to the billions in debt necessary to fund both construction and IT hardware to make them run, putting both parties in a hole that can only be filled with revenues that come from either hyperscalers or AI startups.
- In a very real sense, the AI compute industry is dependent on AI “working out,” because if it doesn’t, every single one of these data centers will become a burning hole in the ground.
I will admit I’m quite disappointed that the media at large has mostly ignored this story. Limp, cautious “are we in an AI bubble?” conversations are insufficient to deal with the potential for collapse we’re facing.
Today, I’m going to dig into the reality of the costs of AI, and explain in gruesome detail exactly how easily these data centers can rapidly approach insolvency in the event that their tenants fail to pay."
Does anyone feel like the #billionaires are actually systematically culling the global population?
#Vaccine denial
#climatechange ( #drought #flood #heatwave #hurricane )
Cutting #humanitarian #aid
#armed thugs targeting people
#militarized borders that prevent people from moving to safer places
#AI #datacenters (destroying #employment)
#space (million satellites?)
It all seems to be accelerating. Are we really at the beginning of global genocide?
#racism #technology #PublicHealth #NAACP #activism #AI #datacenters
'The NAACP is making sure Black and minority neighborhoods are not victimized by data centers.'
When I saw an upcoming panel discussion called "How community benefit agreements can mitigate public concerns about #datacenters " I figured it was probably from AEI or Heritage or one of those places and was about to ignore it.
Brookings, though, is not on the right, and the politician on the panel, a Democrat, is from Loudoun County, Virginia, the data center capital of the universe. Plus he seems to have a lot of experience in this area.
So just in case others here are watching this issue more closely than I am and might be interested, I thought I'd share it.
And if it turns out to be lame, remember that this was an FYI, not an endorsement!
@StevenSaus Meanwhile, south of Dayton on the Ohio River, east of Cincinnati, Adams County, #Ohio is openly courting, behind closed doors, data centers for its two shuttered coal plant sites. #DataCenters https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/adams-county-touts-demolished-power-plants-as-the-best-place-for-data-centers
#Musk company SpaceX bought the Musk company xAI 🤢 and someone said it's now worth a Trillion dollars #pedophile
"SpaceX on Monday acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence startup that also owns the X social media platform, in a deal combining two companies owned by Elon Musk. Musk in a news release said that the combination would aim to pursue AI data centers in outer space."
He's not only going to pollute the world with Data Centers, he's going to pollute space too 🤬
#DataCenters #Alberta #cdnpoli
Noteworthy: #datacenters and #India.
Tax breaks. Yet water problems.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-taxes-through-2047-to-lure-global-ai-workloads/
Sooner or later, the unemployed, angry masses of #AiAntagonists will stop posting silly memes and start smashing #datacenters instead...
...from that perspective putting data centers in orbit is perfect protection against angry #luddite mobs...
...as a plus, cooling and power, which is the main thrust of Luddite critique (because #AI #LLM are totally useless) is taken care of in orbit...
So if you have lift capacity of $20/kg suddenly orbital data centre starts to look like a damn good investment.
@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):
Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...
#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa
From yesterday.
Inc: Amid Soaring AI Demand, the First Statewide Data Center Moratorium Is Here https://www.inc.com/ava-levinson/georgia-data-center-moratorium/91292826 @IncMagazine
Meanwhile ...
CNBC: Microsoft's plans for 15 more data centers win approval at former Wisconsin Foxconn site https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/microsoft-wins-approval-for-15-data-centers-at-wisconsin-foxconn-site.html @cnbc #datacenters #Microsoft
Wired: People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-criticism-factories-supply-us/ @WIRED #datacenters
¡Acabamos de llegar al 50%
En apenas 24 horas, habéis demostrado una generosidad increíble. Pero todavía tenemos un buen empujón que darle.
En el crowdfunding para la batalla legal que tenemos contra los Centros de Datos, sois parte imprescindible de la misma.
Porque no podemos permitir que un capricho de un techbro suponga que te expropien tus huertas, contaminen tu agua o energía. O amenace tu salud.
Apoya la causa donando y difundiendo
@F3715H @JuxGD I second this one.
1. Obviously #Monero peaked recently because everyone who can is dropping #USD for #XMR and is #GTFO'ing the #USA due to #Trump...
2.I've seen "#ProofOfStake" #Shitcoins like #Ethereum and #Solana with setups that are way more wasteful, expensive and #hoarding of hardware like #RAM and #SSDs [the latter one being basically destroyed due to extreme #IOPS].
- I've yet to see any credible evidence of commercial #MoneroFarming to exist to a scale even remotely as close to those #Shitcoins with entire #Datacenters dedicaded to them (I sadly can't divulge more due to NDAs)...
3.If you have no problem with #AMEX, #VISA, #MasterCard ¹ (and espechally #PayPal!)² ³, then you shouldn't have a problem with Monero either!
Yes it is a cryptocurrency, but it's the least worst when it comes to #privacy, #centralization and some study seem to hint that Monero and the DNMs that use it actually reduce #StreetCrime and #Violence as they allow #NonviolentDrugOffenders [aka. #VictimlessCrimes] to be facilitated safer and in a trustless envoirment.
The Problems associated with #Monero are not due to the fault of Monero. It's what people do towards other people. Whether they do it for XMR, #Dollar, #Euro, or whatever doesn't make it better or worse than whether someone threatens a person with a knife or a rifle: Both are equally bad in the eyes of the law and society for all the righr reasons!
Also Monero per it's very design CANNOT be abused for "#SmartContracts", #NFTs and associated #malware - in fact the #developers of Monero removed any such ability by deprecating and disabling the tx_extra feature.
- So it that regard, Monero by it's privacy is IMHO more ethical than even a #BankAccount because unlike a #Bank and like cash, #SelfCustody of it gives YOU 100% control over the funds, which is important amidst #Debanking attacks by the #Trump-Regime against opponents around the globe!
#Trump won't do that, cuz the #TechBros, #CryptoBros, #AIbros and #CorporateAmerica got him into power.
- Besides, the #USA has way too cheap #electricity by any measure, so charging all those #Billionaires and "#AI"-Fans as well as #AIslop #DataCenters less than $1 per kWh is already an insult to the rest of the world conserving power and actually taking #ClimateChange seriously...
The public is⚡rejecting new #AI #DataCenters:
"Last 24 hrs🚨⬇️
> Brenham, TX CC blocked tax incentives & zoning changes for a large FR-owned data center
> Imperial, CA failed to approve site plans for $10B project, random shadow company now suing
> Indianapolis, IN delayed rezoning decision on MetroBloks project a 2nd time
> San Marcos, TX - $1.5B project now stalled amid resident opposition
> KC MO -ordinance being voted on today would ban new construction..."
-D Johnson
#Tech #USPol
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A pic of the interior of an AI data center with a neon "AI":
Someone shared this without #attribution. I can't figure out how to image search on my phone. DM me if you can show who created this.
#RAM #prices #memory #GPU #DataCenters #AI
Alt...
Text reads: The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
"Anger over the perceived trampling of communities by Silicon Valley has entered the national political conversation and could affect voters of all political persuasions in this year’s midterm elections." https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/data-center-rebellion-reshaping-political-145852588.html #ai #datacenters #broligarchs
BBC: 'I had no electricity for six months': American families struggle with soaring energy prices
Tech Crunch: Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-deals-with-three-nuclear-companies-for-6-plus-gw-of-power/ @TechCrunch
Would you trust Meta with nuclear safety? #Meta #datacenters
| No way: | 0 |
| Yes: | 0 |
| Meta won't be in charge of those plants: | 0 |
Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in Michigan township
Microslop has identified itself as the mystery company behind a prospective data center in a part of Michigan where locals have objected to such a development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html
#Microsoft #Microslop #AI #datacenters #technology #Michigan #electricity #WaterResources
Fantastic article about a beloved dive bar / community cornerstone lost to data center development. What a goddamn tragedy. I've had a few Zoxx's in my day, bars and coffee shops where prices were low and people went to just be people, they really made me who I am. Most of them suffered the same fate
https://thebaffler.com/latest/last-call-at-zoxx-social-club-rommel
RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115743334738126963
Another feck'n month where our electric usage was lower than last year for the same month because we did energy improvements but the electric bill was twice as much, just because all the data center energy brokers are bidding up the electric grid energy auctions, and can, because right now they have unlimited pockets. This nonsense has to stop. I'm calling it the #AItax.
#USPol #DataCenters #economy .
AodeRelay boostedRE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115062106713195825
They did it again... Prices in biggest US power grid auction hit new record, signaling higher utility bills ahead. PJM auction beats record Wednesday thanks to data center power needs. It's jumped 830% during the previous auction and Wednesdays auction beat that.
"Power bills for about a fifth of Americans are expected to continue to rise after the largest U.S. grid operator, PJM Interconnection, reported fresh record-high capacity prices on Wednesday that reflected electricity demand by data centers overtaking supplies."
#Electricity #Economy #USPol . https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/prices-biggest-us-power-grid-auction-hit-new-record-supply-crunch-2025-12-17/
From yesterday.
Wired: Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office https://www.wired.com/story/opposed-to-data-centers-the-working-families-party-wants-you-to-run-for-office/ @WIRED #datacenters
Weekend Reads
* A look at GeoIP
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-12/geoip.html
* Tor network pentest report
https://blog.torproject.org/code-audit-network-health-tools/TTP-code-audit-network-health-report.pdf
* RPKI publication practices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16369
* World's hottest data centers
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
* Measuring people to government paths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13994
This is from December 15:
Rest of the World: In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
More:
"There are close to 9,000 data centers currently in operation across the globe."
PC Gamer: 80% of the world's data centres have been built in places either too hot or too cold for the hardware inside https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/80-percent-of-the-worlds-data-centres-have-been-built-in-places-either-too-hot-or-too-cold-for-the-hardware-inside/ #datacenters
The best quote here is the CEO of Starcloud lecturing astronomers on when they should or shouldn't be trying to, you know, do astronomy. (Definitely not around sunrise or sunset!)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/845453/space-data-centers-astronomers
Nvidia’s acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind Slurm, is a strategic move that goes far beyond GPUs.
Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is the de facto open-source workload manager for large-scale GPU clusters, widely used in supercomputing centers, AI labs, hyperscalers, and cloud GPU operators. It plays a critical role in ...
#NVIDIA #AIInfrastructure #OpenSource #Slurm #HPC #GPUs #AITraining #CloudComputing #tech #DataCenters
#Trump is getting into the #fusion #power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm & #Google backed #TAE technologies, just days after industry representatives urged #federal #funding.
The all-stock deal announced Thursday is a bet on the power boom spurred by #ArtificialIntelligence #datacenters & adds to the Trump family's growing roster of ventures very much connected to his presidency from cryptocurrency to mobile services.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-combine-6-billion-deal-2025-12-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
It’s Not An AI Bubble. It’s A Black Hole
#finance #imperialism
#democracy #poverty #trump #maga #nokings #antifa #techbros #billionaires #nvidia #bigtech #stocks #market #trade #unitedstates #palantir #mastodon #education #fediverse #canada #newyork #california #openai #montreal @ledevoir @eff #gpu #uk #china @democracy @povertyandinequality #aibubble #amazon #microsoft #chatgpt #banks #datacenters #401K #mutualfunds @workersrights #LAYOFFS
@workersrights @democracy @socialmedia
@firefoxwebdevs It's not only about trust. It's also the question how Firefox wants to be part of destroying our climate and water ressources in a time of #climateEmergency and growing #desertification thanks to #datacenters needed by the #AIHype!
Software that contributes to this destruction, even though it could work without it, is not an option for me. If it forces me to use such functions, I consider it even criminal. Firefox/the CEO wants AI.
I heard an excellent #podcast on #WMPG this afternoon about the #AI #Surveillance state and how #TechBros are bullying towns into hosting #DataCenters! A must-listen!
AI Surveillance Cameras in Maine
30 mins - First Aired December 15, 2025
WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM
Producer & Host: Richard Rudolph, PhD.
"The podcast is an interview of #DylanOliver, a native of #HodgsonME who is a staff member of the Alliance for Secure AI. Dylan talked about how a number of communities in the state have installed AI surveillance cameras which log and store every single car that passes by a given location, creating a searchable database of our movements regardless of whether anyone is suspected of a crime or not. He also talked about how the data can be shared with federal and local agencies for 'investigative purposes' even if a local police department chooses to restrict data to its own officers."
Web page for #CommunityVoicesForChange:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/community-voices-for-change/
#USPol #DataCenter #TechBullies #AISurveillance #MainePol #ThoughtCrime #AllianceForSecureAI #ACAB #Orwellian
"A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?"
Wired: Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country https://www.wired.com/story/google-data-centers-will-bring-nuclear-power-back-to-tornado-country/ @WIRED #Google #datacenters
So much for #StatesRights
#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder to neuter #State #AI laws, a win for #tech companies & #billionaires that have #lobbied against #regulation of the #technology.
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for #ArtificialIntelligence, Trump told reporters.
#law #regulations #safety #labor #DataCenters #energy #climate #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Thursday Cartoons 😳
#hegseth #titanic #venezuela #ai #artificialintelligence #datacenters #somalia #putin #trump #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #cartoon
Space, the final Data Center. Space data centers looks like a great business opportunity for the next decades. #space #datacenters #spacedatacenter
"In Grant County, #DataCenters grew to consume more power than any other category of ratepayer, including other industrial customers, residents, farm irrigation, local food processors and commercial businesses, according to utility officials.
Data centers in 2022 accounted for nearly 40% of total demand, or about as much as 190,000 U.S. households, according to utility and state data."
https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-clean-energy-washington-state
#WashingtonState
Nvidia CEO says U.S. data centers take 3 years, but China ‘can build a hospital in a weekend’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said China has an AI infrastructure adv…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/333764/
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Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/
#AI #Google #DataCenters #electricity #cooling #thousandfoldIncrease
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/ #AI #Google #DataCenters #electricity #cooling #thousandfoldIncrease
#DataCenters #Virginia #AirQuality #PublicComment
If you live in VA, there's a public comment period on a proposed change to the 'emergency generator' usage.
They want to change regulations so that a 'planned grid outage' even a week in advance be classified as an 'emergency' allowing the use of their generators.
EDIT: Comments due by 12/3
you can submit a comment here:
https://townhall.virginia.gov/L/Comments.cfm?GDocForumID=2798
my comment:
"Do not allow generators during planned grid outages"
We should not allow data centers to contribute yet more damage to our communities.
Why are we even allowing 24/7 generators for non-emergency businesses. When the power goes out, we as citizens go down, let the data centers go offline as well. They aren't 'mission critical' for any county or state purpose. They have workload fail over plans for this exact situation.
These same data center operators last year asked if they could run their generators during 'high load' events during the summer; they claimed it wouldn't be for long hours, just short durations.
Given the past performance of PJM and Dominion Power, outages that reach >5 hours are EXCEEDINGLY rare.
As such, batteries exist to cover this likely outage duration. Are they as cheap as generators? Not yet, but we're seeing BILLION DOLLAR profits from these companies. They can afford it.
And should a planned outage need to be multiple days, again, they can go offline like the rest of us. How often has this happened? I'm guessing basically never.
Data Centers provide NO BENEFIT to the affected communities that any other 'normal' business provides.
Stop giving these companies loopholes to pollute and damage our communities.
We like to think that modern markets are ultra sophisticated, but CME's recent outage was triggered by something as basic as a data center cooling problem. The result was a very modern failure though: some of the world's most liquid futures and options markets went quiet all at once. When a single vendor issue can pause price discovery in energy, rates and commodities, you are not running a global market, you are running a very elaborate single point of failure. Risk teams endlessly tune models and margin, while one of the biggest risks sits in the server room and basic infrastructure that keeps the whole thing running. Market structure is no stronger than its least redundant piece of infrastructure, and this episode puts operational resilience firmly in the category of core market risk, not back office plumbing.
TL;DR
🧠 Cooling issue at a data center halted CME futures and options
⚡ Outage disrupted some of the most liquid global markets
🎓 Operational resilience is part of market risk, not a separate problem
🔍 Concentrated infrastructure creates hidden single points of failure
#CME #riskmanagement #marketstructure #operations #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #infrastructure #datacenters
https://www.wsj.com/finance/cme-options-futures-trading-halted-amid-data-center-issue-16e96ed1
This is in Pennsylvania.
Reuters: Trump’s push for more AI data centers faces backlash from his own voters https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/trumps-push-more-ai-data-centers-faces-backlash-his-own-voters-2025-12-01/ @Reuters #datacenters #BigTech
«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667
@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut
#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work
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Data Workers´ Inquiry
Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research
Milagros Miceli, Adio-Adet Dinika, Krystal Kauffman, Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher, Alex Hanna, Timnit Gebru
The Distributed AI Research Institute
Weizenbaum-Institute
Technische Universit ̈at Berlin
mila@dair-institute.org,
adio@dair-institute.org,
krystal@dair-institute.org,
camilla.salim.wagner@tu-berlin.de,
l.sachenbacher@tu-berlin.de,
alex@dair-institute.org,
timnit@dair-institute.org
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/36667/38805
“Amazon🚨vastly accelerated nitrate poisoning of an entire town and refuses to do anything about it.”
-J Ward
For hundreds of communities who’ve been saddled with #DataCenters in recent years, the bulky fixtures are sources of unbearable noise, soaring energy prices, plenty of electrical fires, and debilitating rare cancers…
#Amazon #Bezos #Oligarchs #BigTech #AI #Dystopia #Fascism #Poisoning #Boycott #Protest #USPol
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-oregon
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115616138817977972
“Servers need to be kept between 21 and 27 degrees Celsius to function properly, and in Morrow County they are cooled with water drawn from the same aquifer used by local residents. That water is already loaded with nitrates; as it passes through the cooling systems, some of the liquid evaporates, but the compounds remain and become concentrated. The return water is then mixed with industrial wastewater in the giant lagoons at the Port of Morrow and sprayed onto fields as liquid fertilizer, even in winter when there are no crops to absorbit. The result, acording to hydrologists quoted by Rolling Stone, is an accelerated "washing" of nitrates into the subsoil: the more it is irrigated, the faster the aquifer is poisoned.”
#oregon #datacenters #water #pollution
In some areas, such as NYC, the surge has been dramatic—with residential shutoffs in Aug up 5X from a year ago, utility filings show.
In Pennsylvania…power shutoffs have risen 21% this year, with >270k households losing #electricity…. The avg electricity bill in the state…has risen 13% from 1 yr ago, as utilities upgrade grids to accommodate a burst of new #DataCenters, acc/to an analysis of federal data by #NEADA, which represents state directors of #energy aid programs for #LowIncome families.
HT @berzhu
#AISucks #NoNukesForAI #AI #Enshittification #Environment
#ClimateChange #AIBubble #Capitalism #Datacenters #Crapitalism
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Futuristic illustration including a golden skin couple with glowing eyes.
"We just saved 20% our power bill by burning down the data center."
Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence."Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there's probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA's latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it's misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).
This should have been vigorously resisted as it was unfolding, but it was not as far as I can remember. It should be vigorously opposed now, but it is not. Data centers, our modern mills, are consuming vast quantities of critical resources like electric power and clean water, to the point that there are communities struggling to provide these resources to human beings who live there. Yet the pushback against this expansion is muted, and data centers are expanding rapidly. Where is the left's response to this corporate seizure of the means of production?
People are worried about generative AI taking jobs, and rightly so, but I think these concerns point to an overarching trend towards a kind of digital feudalization. Generative AI is already created by taking peoples' hard work without any compensation. You're permitted to use the technology "free of charge", but you can't pay the rent or mortgage, or buy food, with ChatGPT output. This essentially renders all of us as peasants.
The threat from bosses that you could be fired and replaced with generative AI, even if false, presses down wage demands and encourages doing work for no compensation. In this climate, people feel compelled to learn how to use generative AI to do their work because they perceive (again, probably rightly) that if they don't do that they will eventually find themselves without employment opportunities. Once again, if you're in a position of doing uncompensated work like this on behalf of a powerful entity, you are in a relationship distressingly similar to the one a peasant was in to a lord in the feudal system.
I'm not saying anything new here, just thinking out loud. But doesn't the left have anything to say, loudly proudly and often, about this? These are bread and butter issues for the left, aren't they?
#AI #GenAI #GPT #ChatGPT #cloud #DataCenters #USPolitics #left