Maybe that you’ve never seen this before should be a big red flag that it’s a bubble, and not real, and not good.
Tag: data centers
AI is hogging our economy and crowding out other societal goods.
It’s not just bad, it’s not just harmful, but it’s also ruining the potential good.
Kirsten Sinema promoting something should be the biggest red flag.
Kirsten Sinema went to city council threatening that they need to accept data centers and AI, and threatening if they don’t, Trump will make them.
Data centers powered by old jet turbines, what could possibly go wrong?
And apparently “closed loop” water systems don’t actually mean you won’t be put on a water restriction if these monster palaces come to your community.
Communities are coming together against big tech data centers and saying “meh, not much value”
I still can’t find out if either of the other county commissioners signed a nondisclosure agreement about data centers; they haven’t answered me.
We the people see where the data centers & their AI slop is taking us.
The funny thing is I think the over the top AI hype has actually had a sort of Streisand Effect for AI in particular, because now people hate it even more than all the other environment wrecking industries.
Data center support becoming a third rail in local politics.
All candidates in a Pennsylvania municipality are reluctant now to embrace data center development. Public pressure works.
Residents of Hamilton Ohio want to reject the proposed billion dollar data center project.
These projects could be in the works almost anywhere without anyone knowing because elected representatives are signing NDAs to keep these projects secret until they’re ready to push them through.
I’m getting troubled about this narrative that the AI bubble is propping up The Economy and keeping things “good”.
Because this seems to be almost like an argument about why people need to die needlessly because of lack of healthcare insurance because private health insurance employs some people in jobs.
Crypto connected real estate man revolving-doored in & out of the Shapiro admin and into data center consultancy.
Dodgy looking conflict of interest crypto & AI stuff in Pennsylvania.
Residential electric utility customers shouldn’t have to subsidize costs for rich tech billionaires.
Electric utility companies need to prioritize serving the people, the residential customers, and should not be allowed to make residential customers foot the costs of data center expenses by allowing subsidization through socializing those costs over all customers.
Data centers cancelled in Blakely Pennsylvania and Menomonie Wisconsin.
Opposition to data centers is making headway against the AI bubble environmental assault. Menomonie Wisconsin is the rural town in western Wisconsin that had a public meeting where I was able to listen to the public comments of the citizenry and do some commentary on my podcast. Many of the citizens who spoke at that meeting figured […]
Partnering with AI tech tycoons who wanna be kings is not democracy.
Anyone trying to push for “managing” AI or “sustainably” supporting AI is not operating in reality.
AI Boosters contradict each other & can’t be trusted.
My published Letter to the Editor about AI and data centers in the Scranton Times-Tribune.
We’re subsidizing the megalomaniacal designs of tech tycoons via higher electricity bills to pay for their data centers.
And don’t fall for people like PA Senator Rosemary Brown who tried to say it’s your photoroll that requires these huge data centers when that’s a ridiculous false accusation because all the world’s photorolls and banking data wouldn’t need AI data centers.
St. Charles Missouri community rejects the AI data center plan.
This place had public officials signing NDAs too.
AI data centers and the real economy.
This big tech AI data center boondoggle push is leading to soaring electricity prices. Nobody wants that.
Another data center project sprung on people by surprise in Missouri by politicians who signed NDAs.
When a big decision with serious ramifications is rushed, that’s a big big red flag for scams and fraud. People are right to want to slow down and allow stakeholders to engage in critical thinking.
I’m sending postcards to elected reps asking them if they’ve signed NDAs.
Elected officials shouldn’t be allowed to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Data Center hearing in the town of Archbald Pennsylvania drew a record number of constituents who were talked down to.
Multiple data centers proposed in Northeastern Pennsylvania are in or very near to Archbald Pennsylvania.