#aidatacenters — Public Fediverse posts
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Bitcoin Miner Shuts Racks for $1.2 Billion AI Deal
Hyperscale Data switched off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan campus on September 1 to make room for an AI colocation contract worth over $1.2 billion.
https://pulseofnations.lol/bitcoin-miner-shuts-racks/
#AiDataCenters #BitcoinMining #Energy #Gpus #Hyperscale #Neocloud
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/684358/ Apple’s iPhone prices quadrupled since 2008. Here’s why #AIDataCenters #Apple #AppleProducts #AppleStore #BuiltInStorageCapacity #Carrier #Cost #customer #Éire #GB #GlobalShortage #IE #iPads #iPhone #Iphone15ProMax #IPhone17 #Iphone17e #IPhone18ProMax #IPhone7 #IPhoneDuo #IphonePrice #IphonePrices #IPhonePro #Ireland #Macs #MemoryChip #MemoryChips #price #PricyIphoneModel #ProMax #StartingPrice #SteveJobs #Storage #StorageCapacity #Technology #TimCook
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/288124/ UAE Rethinks 5-Gigawatt AI Campus After Iran Targets US Assets in Gulf #5GWAICampus #AbuDhabiAIInvestment #AIDataCenters #AWSFacilities #CriticalInfrastructureProtection #G42 #Iran #IranWar #PersianGulfSecurity #UAE #USUAEAIPartnership
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The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […] -
The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […] -
The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […] -
The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […] -
The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […] -
HT @waltbaldwin
NextEra secures US loan of up to $1.9 billion for restart of #Iowa #nuclearPlant
By Reuters
September 8, 2026Excerpt: "Iowa's lone nuclear plant, the #DuaneArnoldEnergyCenter, closed in 2020 after operating for 45 years. Operations are scheduled to resume in early 2029."
#AISucks #AIDatacenters #NoNukesForAI #NoNukes #NextEra #Holtec #RethinkNotRestart #AIBoom 💥
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Um... ☢️
A #Michigan #NuclearPlant shut down for good is being switched back on for #AI power
Story by Everett Sloane, September 6, 2026
"A nuclear plant on the shore of Lake Michigan that shut down for good four years ago is now weeks or months away from producing electricity again, in what would be the first time in American history a retired commercial reactor has been brought back online. #Palisades #Nuclear Generating Station, in #CovertTownship, Michigan, ceased operating in 2022 after Entergy concluded it no longer made economic sense to keep running. Its new owner, #HoltecInternational, is now racing to restart it, betting that the same wave of electricity demand from artificial intelligence #datacenters reshaping the U.S. power grid can justify resurrecting a plant that was, until recently, on a path toward permanent teardown. The attempt is being closely watched across the utility industry because more than a dozen other reactors were permanently retired nationwide over the past decade, and each one is a potential candidate for the same kind of revival if Palisades proves it can be done safely and on budget."
#AISucks #AIDatacenters #NoNukesForAI #NoNukes #Holtec #PalisadesNuclearPlant #PalisadesNPP #WaterIsLife #LakeMichigan #RethinkNotRestart #AIBoom 💥
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Weekly output: Consumer Cellular + Airalo, SpaceX Starship recovery, American Airlines to restore seatback screens, Google AI for college students, Chinese robots, data centers disliked
After two weeks at home, I have about the shortest possible trip to the West Coast coming up: Qualcomm is hosting a “6G Leadership Day” event in La Jolla, Calif., on Wednesday and covering travel costs for invited journalists. I will, of course, include a disclosure of that in everything I file for PCMag from there.
Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of what I learned at (and after) the Black Hat information-security conference.
8/18/2026: Consumer Cellular Taps Airalo for eSIM International Connectivity for Subscribers, PCMag
The fact that Consumer Cellular subscribers can’t take advantage of this eSIM promotion if they bought a phone from that service on an installment-payment plan made this a little more interesting to me.
8/18/2026: For Once, Elon Musk Underestimates SpaceX: A Recovery Team Has Saved Starship’s Upper Stage From Sinking, PCMag
When I wrote this, it wasn’t clear how SpaceX would get Starship’s second stage from Christmas Island to Texas. Now it looks like they’ve outsourced that work to the semi-submersible heavy-lift carrier Forte, operated by the Dutch maritime-services firm Boskalis.
8/19/2026: American Airlines Will Add Seatback Screens to Narrowbody Jets, PCMag
When I sent a question in to AA’s PR department requesting clarification on details like the sizes of the screens and whether the touted personalization features would include targeted advertising or the ability to set favorite movie and TV shows for future flights, I did not expect to get a reply less than two hours later saying the airline couldn’t provide those details because it needed to pick a technology vendor first. I also didn’t expect to scoop travel writers much more versed in AA like Ben Schlappig or Gary Leff, but that’s what happened.
8/19/2026: Google Is Now Offering 1 Free Year of Its AI Pro Plan to US College Students. Here’s How to Get It, PCMag
I was amused to see videos in Google’s press kit show Gemini Live’s Deep Research feature generate a report with a typo-struck title: “Classical Music in Vienna and it’s Historical Influence.”
8/20/2026: China’s robotics ambitions, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me on via Zoom, overdubbed as usual, to comment about a robotics conference going on in China (for a peek at that, see this brief report from Al Jazeera English). My main point: While the Trump administration can make it difficult for Chinese manufacturers of robots to sell into the U.S., there’s almost nothing it can do to stop the rest of the world from doing business with China.
8/21/2026: Americans Hate AI Data Centers Even More Fiercely Than They Did Just a Few Months Ago, New Poll Shows, PCMag
I missed this poll published by Heatmap News the day it came out, but after seeing enough AI boosters on X still angsting out over it, I decided the story had some legs. The attention that this climate-news site’s survey has kept getting leads me to think that I made the right call.
#AIDataCenters #Airalo #AmericanAirlines #ChinaRobotics #ChineseRobots #ConsumerCellular #dataCenters #eSIM #GeminiAI #GoogleAI #inflightEntertainment #MVNO #Qualcomm #S40 #seatbackScreens #SpaceX #SpaceXStarship #StarshipFlight13 -
#SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!
#OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.
OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.
August 4, 2026
"The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.
"The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "
Read more:
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-summer-camp-influencer-retreat-greenwashing-backlash#NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters
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#SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!
#OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.
OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.
August 4, 2026
"The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.
"The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "
Read more:
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-summer-camp-influencer-retreat-greenwashing-backlash#NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters
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#WestbrookME considers moratorium on #AIDataCenters as debate grows across #Maine
Story by Drew Peters, 5/18/2026
"The Westbrook City Council is expected to decide Monday whether to temporarily halt new #Datacenter development as communities across Maine continue weighing the benefits and risks tied to the growing artificial intelligence industry.
"The proposal would create a 180-day moratorium on new data center projects in Westbrook. City leaders said the pause would give officials time to update ordinances and better understand how large-scale facilities could impact the city’s electric grid, water supply, and taxpayers.
"The discussion comes as Maine communities increasingly debate the future of AI-related infrastructure. Last month, Gov. #JanetMills vetoed a bill that would have imposed a statewide moratorium on data centers.
" 'This is a subject that has the potential to destroy our community,' Westbrook resident Marnie Ward said ahead of the meeting.
"Ward said she has followed reports of data center development in other parts of the country and worries promises made by developers may not always be fulfilled.
" 'Places where companies have promised to put in things like their own electrical generation and they don’t do it,' Ward said.
"She questioned whether the economic benefits outweigh the environmental and infrastructure costs.
" 'What’s the benefit, and does the benefit of having one of these data centers outweigh the costs it’s going to be?' Ward said.
"Mayor David Morse said the proposed moratorium is intended to help the city prepare before a project proposal arrives."
#ResistBigData #MaineResists
#MainePol #DatacenterMoratoriums #DatacentersSuck #Datacenters #NoisePollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyConsumption #AISucks -
So, given the attack on #SamAltman's house (and how gun-ho many workplaces are for employees to join the #AICult), I expect that anyone #ResistingAI will be next ones to be branded as #Terrorists.
#PauseAI and #StopAI: Meet the #AntiAI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman
By Sharon Goldman
April 15, 2026Excerpt: "The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home last Friday, allegedly carried out by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama, has drawn attention to two anti-AI groups with similar names: Pause AI and Stop AI. Both have condemned the violence and said the suspect is not and was never a member of their organizations.
"Still, the incident, in which Moreno-Gama also went to #OpenAI’s headquarters and tried to shatter the building’s glass doors with a chair and threatened to burn the facility, surfaced his activity on Pause AI’s Discord server and renewed scrutiny of Stop AI’s direct actions targeting OpenAI last year."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/IT6gR#ResistanceIsFertile🌿
#ResistAI #AISucks #AIDataCenters #USPol #DomesticTerrorists #BigData #CorporateTerrorism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #NoisePollution #EnergyGrid
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'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand
#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026
"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "
Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI
