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.
Tag: environmental justice
Environmental advocacy is assiduously ignored by the media.
And by media, I mean left “independent” and alternative media too. Anyone who’s looking for clicks and to make money online seems to ignore it. It’s not really a mystery why, it’s by design.
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.
Attorney for a developer threatens end to democracy if the people of Covington Township don’t allow their property values to zero out.
WVIA reports that the company that will run the proposed data center in Lackawanna County has already had the developer sign a NDA (nondisclosure agreement).
If you care about our quality of life, please stop promoting the use of AI by using it needlessly.
People who are against AI data center power plants and concerned about the environment and these issues should avoid using AI image generators & chatbots anymore. It’s no longer funny, it’s not cute.
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Opposing The Dump Stink.
A follow up on the local dump stink problem… a judge has ruled the state regulator dropped the ball.
Tech tycoons want to hog the power of dedicated power plants from the communities impacted by them.
I don’t think power plants should ever exist solely to provide power to some tech company.
Seed oil panic is right-wing health misinformation.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the whole seed oil panic stuff is a right-wing conspiracy theory based “health concern” that’s promoted mostly by masculinity grifters.
Trump administration broke the rules to harm public health.
“In developing regulations the EPA was directed to weigh only one concern: public health. The costs to industry were explicitly deemed irrelevant.” — Jane Mayer, Dark Money, January 2016