#aisucks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aisucks, aggregated by home.social.
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AI firms are buying up old books then scanning and destroying them 😡🤬
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYWp3ymjx0/?igsh=Y2dqcjA3b2M1aDdp
#FuckAI #AIisTheft #AIsucks #AI #uspol #GreedyFuckers #books #library #piracy #literature #aithieves #oldbooks #greed #laststagecapitalism #BookLover #livro
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AI firms are buying up old books then scanning and destroying them 😡🤬
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYWp3ymjx0/?igsh=Y2dqcjA3b2M1aDdp
#FuckAI #AIisTheft #AIsucks #AI #uspol #GreedyFuckers #books #library #piracy #literature #aithieves #oldbooks #greed #laststagecapitalism #BookLover #livro
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Ukraine (and more) update from Dylan Combelick: all the news thats fit to print, but corporate media won't do its damned job!
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help make the world a less ignorant place while also sticking it to the MAN! https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-july-29-e45581e5e1f9?sk=04f79659c6c504a82124daf938210115
#ukraine #journalism #war #warcrimes #russia #USA #greed #billionaires #AIfail #AIsucks #losers #AI #economy #crash #stocks #NYstockexchange #fail #doom #shame #trump #maga #suck #idiocy
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EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
By Tim McLaughlin
July 27, 2026"Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.
"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal #CleanAirAct's #AcidRain Program, which has been key to the dramatic reduction of #smog and #soot pollution from industrial facilities."
#EPAFail #USPol #Datacenters #AISucks #AirPollution
#PollutionLaws #TechBros #Oligarchy #TechOligarchy #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks -
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
By Tim McLaughlin
July 27, 2026"Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.
"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal #CleanAirAct's #AcidRain Program, which has been key to the dramatic reduction of #smog and #soot pollution from industrial facilities."
#EPAFail #USPol #Datacenters #AISucks #AirPollution
#PollutionLaws #TechBros #Oligarchy #TechOligarchy #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks -
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Ten times the normal daily traffic on my main website, all requests from different IPs with a dash for user-agent
People ask AIs questions, the AI retrieves the answer from my website, anonymously, passes the answer on to the user, without sending them to me, or even acknowledging the very existence of my website.
It is theft, plain and simple.
AI is an industry built on theft, concealment and dishonesty.
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Ten times the normal daily traffic on my main website, all requests from different IPs with a dash for user-agent
People ask AIs questions, the AI retrieves the answer from my website, anonymously, passes the answer on to the user, without sending them to me, or even acknowledging the very existence of my website.
It is theft, plain and simple.
AI is an industry built on theft, concealment and dishonesty.
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Come for the Ai infographic explainers; stay for the apology to artists who could have made them but lost out to his interns and GPT.
Oh. Don’t bother. It never comes.
#aisucks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/ -
Come for the Ai infographic explainers; stay for the apology to artists who could have made them but lost out to his interns and GPT.
Oh. Don’t bother. It never comes.
#aisucks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/ -
https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
The problem with "A": Some people will use LLMs anyway. If it's forbidden or made socially inacceptable, they will (try to) hide the fact.
With "B", we have a small chance, that people will disclose use of #AI, which #LLM or #model, in what way. While I'm not happy about it, it might provide at least minimal #transparency.
Best would be to #postpone the matter.
I tend to vote Further Discussion > B > A.
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https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
The problem with "A": Some people will use LLMs anyway. If it's forbidden or made socially inacceptable, they will (try to) hide the fact.
With "B", we have a small chance, that people will disclose use of #AI, which #LLM or #model, in what way. While I'm not happy about it, it might provide at least minimal #transparency.
Best would be to #postpone the matter.
I tend to vote Further Discussion > B > A.
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CW: Finding out a cool thing was made with AI
Just found out that the app Loupe by @mysk was made with AI. I boosted this app and literally showed it to IRL friends because I thought it was really cool (albeit terrifying). But upon finding out that it was made with AI just makes me sad. Not only because it means that the app is a violation of my values, but also because there are real developers out there who might have one day wanted to make this but now will likely not because “oh someone already did this and it’s popular enough why compete with it?”. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong but that’s what really bothers me about this. And while the developers didn’t necessarily “hide” the fact that it was made with AI, I still believed it was a human made app until I saw them bragging about it (turns out their “privacy-focused browser” is also made by AI, which is basically an oxymoron at this point).
Anyways I’m actually kinda pissed and won’t be recommending Loupe anymore. Mysk didn’t do anything overtly wrong, but this just leaves me angry at them for not talking to a real developer to make this and angry at AI for what it’s done to the world. -
CW: Finding out a cool thing was made with AI
Just found out that the app Loupe by @mysk was made with AI. I boosted this app and literally showed it to IRL friends because I thought it was really cool (albeit terrifying). But upon finding out that it was made with AI just makes me sad. Not only because it means that the app is a violation of my values, but also because there are real developers out there who might have one day wanted to make this but now will likely not because “oh someone already did this and it’s popular enough why compete with it?”. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong but that’s what really bothers me about this. And while the developers didn’t necessarily “hide” the fact that it was made with AI, I still believed it was a human made app until I saw them bragging about it (turns out their “privacy-focused browser” is also made by AI, which is basically an oxymoron at this point).
Anyways I’m actually kinda pissed and won’t be recommending Loupe anymore. Mysk didn’t do anything overtly wrong, but this just leaves me angry at them for not talking to a real developer to make this and angry at AI for what it’s done to the world. -
“OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident”
Fuck around and find out:
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“OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident”
Fuck around and find out:
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The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce is a new unit set up to get AI-enabled technology and tools into the hand {sic}* of Britain's Armed Forces to prepare the UK for the future of warfare.
The new Theatre of War: Coverting PowerPoint into PDFs
Tokenisation of politics.
The press release is like a Ai booster fever dream.
*If they can’t spot errors in their own press release, it’s less than reassuring!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-taskforce-to-put-ai-on-the-uks-frontline
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The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce is a new unit set up to get AI-enabled technology and tools into the hand {sic}* of Britain's Armed Forces to prepare the UK for the future of warfare.
The new Theatre of War: Coverting PowerPoint into PDFs
Tokenisation of politics.
The press release is like a Ai booster fever dream.
*If they can’t spot errors in their own press release, it’s less than reassuring!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-taskforce-to-put-ai-on-the-uks-frontline
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From 2023... #TechExecs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
While #BigTech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring.
BY Katie A. Paul, 5/24/2023
Excerpt: "As detailed in news reports in recent years, members of the tech elite have directed their nannies to keep their kids away from #AddictiveScreens and sent their kids to a private San Francisco school with a strict no-screens policy. 'I just wanted our kids to have a #TechnologyFree start, so that they would be playing and running around and picking up leaves and getting dirty, rather than sitting inside and watching a screen,' said one parent.
"This attitude extends to the C-suite. Susan Wojcicki, who recently stepped down as YouTube CEO, admitted in 2017 that she sometimes confiscated her kids’ phones. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, revealed in 2018 that his 11-year-old son did not have a phone. The following year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he didn’t want his young children sitting in front of a computer 'for a long period of time.'
"One former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, put it more bluntly, saying that he felt 'tremendous guilt' about helping to build the social network and that his children 'aren’t allowed to use that shit.'
"These admissions have been largely forgotten with the speed of the news cycle over the past five years. But taken together, they reveal an industry that tries to shield its kids from the dangers of technology—while touting the very same products for everyone else. It begs the question: Why shouldn’t America’s young people receive the same levels of protection that Silicon Valley parents provide for their own?
While tech executives have gone quieter lately on the subject of how they regulate tech use for their offspring, there are signs that they continue to harbor private doubts about the products they market to the world. When tech-focused publication The Information surveyed more than 1,000 subscribers last year, it found that 'Silicon Valley’s children spend far less time on screens than the average American kid.'
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By trying to shield their kids from the ill effects of the products they make, tech leaders are following a pattern seen in industries like #BigTobacco, whose executives, in congressional testimony 25 years ago, conceded that they didn’t want their children to smoke."
Read more:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children#NoPhones #TechAddiction #BigTech #TakeThePhonesAway #BigData #SpendTimeInNature #AISucks #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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From 2023... #TechExecs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
While #BigTech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring.
BY Katie A. Paul, 5/24/2023
Excerpt: "As detailed in news reports in recent years, members of the tech elite have directed their nannies to keep their kids away from #AddictiveScreens and sent their kids to a private San Francisco school with a strict no-screens policy. 'I just wanted our kids to have a #TechnologyFree start, so that they would be playing and running around and picking up leaves and getting dirty, rather than sitting inside and watching a screen,' said one parent.
"This attitude extends to the C-suite. Susan Wojcicki, who recently stepped down as YouTube CEO, admitted in 2017 that she sometimes confiscated her kids’ phones. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, revealed in 2018 that his 11-year-old son did not have a phone. The following year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he didn’t want his young children sitting in front of a computer 'for a long period of time.'
"One former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, put it more bluntly, saying that he felt 'tremendous guilt' about helping to build the social network and that his children 'aren’t allowed to use that shit.'
"These admissions have been largely forgotten with the speed of the news cycle over the past five years. But taken together, they reveal an industry that tries to shield its kids from the dangers of technology—while touting the very same products for everyone else. It begs the question: Why shouldn’t America’s young people receive the same levels of protection that Silicon Valley parents provide for their own?
While tech executives have gone quieter lately on the subject of how they regulate tech use for their offspring, there are signs that they continue to harbor private doubts about the products they market to the world. When tech-focused publication The Information surveyed more than 1,000 subscribers last year, it found that 'Silicon Valley’s children spend far less time on screens than the average American kid.'
[...]
By trying to shield their kids from the ill effects of the products they make, tech leaders are following a pattern seen in industries like #BigTobacco, whose executives, in congressional testimony 25 years ago, conceded that they didn’t want their children to smoke."
Read more:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children#NoPhones #TechAddiction #BigTech #TakeThePhonesAway #BigData #SpendTimeInNature #AISucks #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#SaveMyLouisiana leads protest against Applied Digital data center
Story by Melinda Martinez, July 20, 2026
"Save My Louisiana organized a #protest against the #AppliedDigital #datacenter being built in the small Central Louisiana community of Boyce on Saturday, July 18.
"Those at the protest were concerned with non-disclosure agreements [#NDA's] signed by local officials, higher utility costs and the #EnvironmentalImpact of the Applied Digital data center. A few also questioned the true economic impact of the project, which they think will benefit the company, but not Central #Louisiana.
"Applied Digital, a Dallas-based digital infrastructure company, broke ground in January on #DeltaForge1, a large-scale artificial intelligence data center located at James Road and La. 121 near Boyce. A news release issued by the Louisiana Economic Development states it is expected to be finished by mid-2027.
"At a news conference held in May announcing the building of the $3.6 billion data center, Applied Digital board director Richard Nottenburg said that the Delta Forge 1 data center is not a traditional data center.
"Applied Digital has been working on transitioning from air cooled to liquid cooled data centers, said Applied Digital president and co-founder Jason Zhang at the same news conference.
“ 'Our design is a proprietary design that allows us to use very minimal water,' he said, adding that it’s an issue that is very important to communities where data centers are built." [So, in other words, an alleged "closed loop system"! But even closed loop systems have to be flushed periodically!!!]
#AIDatacenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks
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#SaveMyLouisiana leads protest against Applied Digital data center
Story by Melinda Martinez, July 20, 2026
"Save My Louisiana organized a #protest against the #AppliedDigital #datacenter being built in the small Central Louisiana community of Boyce on Saturday, July 18.
"Those at the protest were concerned with non-disclosure agreements [#NDA's] signed by local officials, higher utility costs and the #EnvironmentalImpact of the Applied Digital data center. A few also questioned the true economic impact of the project, which they think will benefit the company, but not Central #Louisiana.
"Applied Digital, a Dallas-based digital infrastructure company, broke ground in January on #DeltaForge1, a large-scale artificial intelligence data center located at James Road and La. 121 near Boyce. A news release issued by the Louisiana Economic Development states it is expected to be finished by mid-2027.
"At a news conference held in May announcing the building of the $3.6 billion data center, Applied Digital board director Richard Nottenburg said that the Delta Forge 1 data center is not a traditional data center.
"Applied Digital has been working on transitioning from air cooled to liquid cooled data centers, said Applied Digital president and co-founder Jason Zhang at the same news conference.
“ 'Our design is a proprietary design that allows us to use very minimal water,' he said, adding that it’s an issue that is very important to communities where data centers are built." [So, in other words, an alleged "closed loop system"! But even closed loop systems have to be flushed periodically!!!]
#AIDatacenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks
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Wait, what..? Something both the #Left and #Right can agree on?!! Maybe the right is waking up to #CorporateColonialism! Good! Our #CorporateOverlords take advantage of everyone!
#Datacenter opponents stage 142 #protests across 42 US states
Story by Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein, July 18, 2026
Excerpt: "Opponents of the rapid buildout of #datacenters held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort to channel anger at the #AI infrastructure expansion that has ramped up over the past year and roiled local politics.
"The protests were coordinated by #HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day #TeaParty. She compares growing opposition to data centers to the right-wing populist movement that emerged in 2009 to protest what it saw as excessive taxation and government overreach.
"Protesters rallied against what HumansFirst calls the 'unaccountable' buildout of #datacenters and 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty.'
"In #FredericksburgVA, one young man carried a sign reading, 'We thrive on water not data.' In #AtlantaGA, a small knot of protesters wielded signs reading, '#Georgia never voted for #hyperscale #AIDatacenters. ' "
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/data-center-opponents-stage-142-protests-across-42-us-states/ar-AA28cU6m#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck
#NoisePollution #LightPollution
#ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks -
Wait, what..? Something both the #Left and #Right can agree on?!! Maybe the right is waking up to #CorporateColonialism! Good! Our #CorporateOverlords take advantage of everyone!
#Datacenter opponents stage 142 #protests across 42 US states
Story by Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein, July 18, 2026
Excerpt: "Opponents of the rapid buildout of #datacenters held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort to channel anger at the #AI infrastructure expansion that has ramped up over the past year and roiled local politics.
"The protests were coordinated by #HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day #TeaParty. She compares growing opposition to data centers to the right-wing populist movement that emerged in 2009 to protest what it saw as excessive taxation and government overreach.
"Protesters rallied against what HumansFirst calls the 'unaccountable' buildout of #datacenters and 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty.'
"In #FredericksburgVA, one young man carried a sign reading, 'We thrive on water not data.' In #AtlantaGA, a small knot of protesters wielded signs reading, '#Georgia never voted for #hyperscale #AIDatacenters. ' "
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/data-center-opponents-stage-142-protests-across-42-us-states/ar-AA28cU6m#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck
#NoisePollution #LightPollution
#ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks -
#VicksburgMS residents #protest planned #AmazonDatacenter
Acie Lewis
Sun, July 19, 2026Excerpt: " 'It's being put up right next to the main elementary school for the City of Vicksburg. And there are several #environmental and health concerns surrounding these #datacenters. And so, being right next to a school, that hits home to me because I really care about children. I have kids,' said Stuart English.
" 'We know nothing about it. No one said anything about it. So, we're just finding a location and putting it wherever we could fit, no matter how many children are there. These are our babies. We've got to take care of them, and I am,' said Claude Lee, a Vicksburg teacher."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/vicksburg-residents-protest-planned-amazon-134114884.html#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks #AmazonDatacenters #AWS #Mississippi
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#VicksburgMS residents #protest planned #AmazonDatacenter
Acie Lewis
Sun, July 19, 2026Excerpt: " 'It's being put up right next to the main elementary school for the City of Vicksburg. And there are several #environmental and health concerns surrounding these #datacenters. And so, being right next to a school, that hits home to me because I really care about children. I have kids,' said Stuart English.
" 'We know nothing about it. No one said anything about it. So, we're just finding a location and putting it wherever we could fit, no matter how many children are there. These are our babies. We've got to take care of them, and I am,' said Claude Lee, a Vicksburg teacher."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/vicksburg-residents-protest-planned-amazon-134114884.html#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks #AmazonDatacenters #AWS #Mississippi
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According to the Financial Times, [author Dave] Eggers told the staff [of OpenAI]:
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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According to the Financial Times, [author Dave] Eggers told the staff [of OpenAI]:
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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Guardian Opens a @ianbetteridge “No” Bot Farm. Impressive output.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious
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Guardian Opens a @ianbetteridge “No” Bot Farm. Impressive output.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious
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#Mississippi homeowners blame a noisy #DataCenter plant for sleepless nights. The mayor's advice? "Consider selling."
By Lauren Fichten, July 16, 2026
"It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday and 46-year-old Jason Haley was once again wide awake.
"The suburban silence that Haley had grown used to in his two decades as a resident of #SouthavenMS, had, for the last few months, been replaced by a constant whirring, like an airplane hovering over his home, he said.
"The noise keeping Haley awake was coming from a plant powering #ElonMusk's #xAI #datacenters in the area, according to a lawsuit filed in June against the company and its subsidiary, #MZXTech. Haley and two other #Southaven residents, who live within a mile of the plant, allege in the suit that 'near-constant' noise and vibrations are causing negative physical and psychological health effects.
"The filing comes amid growing #resistance toward data center development, with the majority of Americans opposing local construction of a data center, according to a Gallup poll published earlier this year.
"Similar disputes are playing out across the country, like in #MountPleasantWI, where a lawsuit this month filed by residents alleges a data center emits 'unreasonable and excessive noise' onto residents' properties and in #LowellMA [a city with a large #Latino population -- #EnvironmentalRacism], where noise from a data center's cooling center 'disrupts neighbors' sleep,' according to an April suit.
"There are more than 4,000 data centers in the U.S., according to a recent United Nations report. To power the data centers, developers are building their own plants, sometimes with little warning to residents like Haley.
"Haley reached out to Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite about the noise in emails he shared with CBS News. In one last November, he urged Musselwhite to drive through the neighborhood 'and take a listen to the constant #HighPitch noises.' "
" 'I am aware of the noise and working on a solution with xAI officials,' Musselwhite had responded to Haley an hour later. 'It is a problem,' he said in another email later in the day.
"But soon, another sleepless night rolled around and Haley was emailing the mayor again.
""Anyone else I can reach out to?" Haley wrote to Musselwhite. "It's almost 4 am and I can hear it from my bed. The high pitch and roaring combined is full force at this time. My ears are ringing. I can't live in this. How was this ever approved?"
[In a later email, this was Musselwhite's response] "I know they want houses for employees, so you may want to consider selling your home." 😡
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-elon-musk-xai-data-center-power-plant-noise/#ElonSucks #BigDataSucks #NoisePollution #BigData
#CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #USPol
#AISucks #DatacenterMoratorium
#AIDatacenters #EnvironmentalRacism
#PreyingOnThePoor #EnergyVampires #ResistAI -
#Mississippi homeowners blame a noisy #DataCenter plant for sleepless nights. The mayor's advice? "Consider selling."
By Lauren Fichten, July 16, 2026
"It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday and 46-year-old Jason Haley was once again wide awake.
"The suburban silence that Haley had grown used to in his two decades as a resident of #SouthavenMS, had, for the last few months, been replaced by a constant whirring, like an airplane hovering over his home, he said.
"The noise keeping Haley awake was coming from a plant powering #ElonMusk's #xAI #datacenters in the area, according to a lawsuit filed in June against the company and its subsidiary, #MZXTech. Haley and two other #Southaven residents, who live within a mile of the plant, allege in the suit that 'near-constant' noise and vibrations are causing negative physical and psychological health effects.
"The filing comes amid growing #resistance toward data center development, with the majority of Americans opposing local construction of a data center, according to a Gallup poll published earlier this year.
"Similar disputes are playing out across the country, like in #MountPleasantWI, where a lawsuit this month filed by residents alleges a data center emits 'unreasonable and excessive noise' onto residents' properties and in #LowellMA [a city with a large #Latino population -- #EnvironmentalRacism], where noise from a data center's cooling center 'disrupts neighbors' sleep,' according to an April suit.
"There are more than 4,000 data centers in the U.S., according to a recent United Nations report. To power the data centers, developers are building their own plants, sometimes with little warning to residents like Haley.
"Haley reached out to Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite about the noise in emails he shared with CBS News. In one last November, he urged Musselwhite to drive through the neighborhood 'and take a listen to the constant #HighPitch noises.' "
" 'I am aware of the noise and working on a solution with xAI officials,' Musselwhite had responded to Haley an hour later. 'It is a problem,' he said in another email later in the day.
"But soon, another sleepless night rolled around and Haley was emailing the mayor again.
""Anyone else I can reach out to?" Haley wrote to Musselwhite. "It's almost 4 am and I can hear it from my bed. The high pitch and roaring combined is full force at this time. My ears are ringing. I can't live in this. How was this ever approved?"
[In a later email, this was Musselwhite's response] "I know they want houses for employees, so you may want to consider selling your home." 😡
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-elon-musk-xai-data-center-power-plant-noise/#ElonSucks #BigDataSucks #NoisePollution #BigData
#CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #USPol
#AISucks #DatacenterMoratorium
#AIDatacenters #EnvironmentalRacism
#PreyingOnThePoor #EnergyVampires #ResistAI -
Employers pushed staff to use #AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs, Jul 13 2026
Excerpt: "Some Amazon developers must be suffering whiplash about how they use AI. The technology group sets targets for most of its developers to use AI tools. This year it started monitoring consumption and posting usage figures on internal leader boards.
"But after the FT wrote in May that some workers were automating non-essential tasks to improve their ranking, Amazon took the leader boards offline. 'Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,' Amazon senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told staff.
"The shift was a sign of how employers are already changing how AI should be used and incentivised. As model providers switch from subscriptions to token-based billing, the cost of profligate usage is starting to hit home. "
Original article [paywall]:
https://www.ft.com/content/cc03adda-7b56-4392-8f9a-e83a71a25ea1Archived version:
https://archive.ph/SYsHi -
Employers pushed staff to use #AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs, Jul 13 2026
Excerpt: "Some Amazon developers must be suffering whiplash about how they use AI. The technology group sets targets for most of its developers to use AI tools. This year it started monitoring consumption and posting usage figures on internal leader boards.
"But after the FT wrote in May that some workers were automating non-essential tasks to improve their ranking, Amazon took the leader boards offline. 'Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,' Amazon senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told staff.
"The shift was a sign of how employers are already changing how AI should be used and incentivised. As model providers switch from subscriptions to token-based billing, the cost of profligate usage is starting to hit home. "
Original article [paywall]:
https://www.ft.com/content/cc03adda-7b56-4392-8f9a-e83a71a25ea1Archived version:
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#NewYork to block new #Datacenters in country's first statewide moratorium
By Anthony Izaguirre, July 14, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — "New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.
"Gov. #KathyHochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday morning imposing the country’s first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, which house thousands of computer servers and require massive amounts of energy and a steady supply of water to keep cool.
" 'As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,' Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement.
"The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the governor’s office said.
"Tech companies and other backers have argued moves to block the construction of data centers hurt job growth for local communities and cede ground to China in a race to lead in the rapidly growing AI industry.
"Earlier this year, #Maine seemed poised to establish a similar moratorium. But the measure was vetoed by the state’s Democratic Gov. #JanetMills because it would have blocked a proposed data center in a town that has struggled following the closure of a local mill. Moratoriums have been proposed in at least a dozen states but have not gotten far, though some counties and municipalities have imposed their own temporary bans."
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https://apnews.com/article/new-york-data-centers-moratorium-ai-c1e05b74208a6c570eec7c658ac8f187 -
#NewYork to block new #Datacenters in country's first statewide moratorium
By Anthony Izaguirre, July 14, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — "New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.
"Gov. #KathyHochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday morning imposing the country’s first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, which house thousands of computer servers and require massive amounts of energy and a steady supply of water to keep cool.
" 'As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,' Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement.
"The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the governor’s office said.
"Tech companies and other backers have argued moves to block the construction of data centers hurt job growth for local communities and cede ground to China in a race to lead in the rapidly growing AI industry.
"Earlier this year, #Maine seemed poised to establish a similar moratorium. But the measure was vetoed by the state’s Democratic Gov. #JanetMills because it would have blocked a proposed data center in a town that has struggled following the closure of a local mill. Moratoriums have been proposed in at least a dozen states but have not gotten far, though some counties and municipalities have imposed their own temporary bans."
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https://apnews.com/article/new-york-data-centers-moratorium-ai-c1e05b74208a6c570eec7c658ac8f187 -
#Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to help power #AIDatacenters: "It's theft"
By Shannon Luibrand
Updated on: July 13, 2026"Sell your home, or the state will take it — that's the ultimatum some homeowners in Georgia say they are facing amid the AI boom.
"Utility giant #GeorgiaPower is planning to build a new transmission line to in part help power new #datacenters. It estimates 70-80% of the power on the new line will help serve data centers and the remaining 20-30% of power will serve the state's growing residential and commercial demand.
"According to the company, increasing demand has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid and building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
"Ansley Brown's childhood home that she said was built when she was 5 or 6 years old is just one of the properties impacted.
" 'It's ours,' she told CBS News. 'It's our family. We belong here.'
"Her mother wanted the property to serve as 'true generational wealth,' Brown said, adding that now 'it's being stripped from us.'
"Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power to sell. If she didn't, Brown said the utility could have sought to acquire the property through #EminentDomain — which is a legal process that allows private property to be taken, with compensation, for projects determined to serve a public purpose.
" 'To us it's theft. It's literally a billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can't fight back. We don't have the money to fight Georgia Power,' Brown said.
"Holly Lovett, a spokesperson for Georgia Power, said eminent domain 'is always … a last resort for us and it's something we never want to do.'
"The company said it feels as if it's done the process responsibly, but Brown disagrees.
" 'You can't tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia and it not hurt something or somebody. And to say that you're doing it in the name of data centers is a slap in the face to us, our community, our animals,' she said.
"A few months ago Brown took her story to TikTok and began sharing stories of others in similar situations. She said that while she knows it's too late to save her home, she doesn't want to see this happen to others."
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#Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to help power #AIDatacenters: "It's theft"
By Shannon Luibrand
Updated on: July 13, 2026"Sell your home, or the state will take it — that's the ultimatum some homeowners in Georgia say they are facing amid the AI boom.
"Utility giant #GeorgiaPower is planning to build a new transmission line to in part help power new #datacenters. It estimates 70-80% of the power on the new line will help serve data centers and the remaining 20-30% of power will serve the state's growing residential and commercial demand.
"According to the company, increasing demand has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid and building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
"Ansley Brown's childhood home that she said was built when she was 5 or 6 years old is just one of the properties impacted.
" 'It's ours,' she told CBS News. 'It's our family. We belong here.'
"Her mother wanted the property to serve as 'true generational wealth,' Brown said, adding that now 'it's being stripped from us.'
"Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power to sell. If she didn't, Brown said the utility could have sought to acquire the property through #EminentDomain — which is a legal process that allows private property to be taken, with compensation, for projects determined to serve a public purpose.
" 'To us it's theft. It's literally a billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can't fight back. We don't have the money to fight Georgia Power,' Brown said.
"Holly Lovett, a spokesperson for Georgia Power, said eminent domain 'is always … a last resort for us and it's something we never want to do.'
"The company said it feels as if it's done the process responsibly, but Brown disagrees.
" 'You can't tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia and it not hurt something or somebody. And to say that you're doing it in the name of data centers is a slap in the face to us, our community, our animals,' she said.
"A few months ago Brown took her story to TikTok and began sharing stories of others in similar situations. She said that while she knows it's too late to save her home, she doesn't want to see this happen to others."
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#AINotetakers add another layer to virtual meeting etiquette
By Cathy Bussewitz, July 9, 2026
" 'People who use #AI notetakers, they don’t always know where the data goes,' said Justin Daniels, an Atlanta-based corporate attorney at law firm Baker Donelson. 'And in my context, if the data goes anywhere else and they’re not aware of it, that attorney-client-privileged conversation may not be attorney-client-privileged anymore.' "
https://apnews.com/article/ai-notetaker-work-meetings-privacy-data-c700299371ca7cfec77dafdfb948067f
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#AINotetakers add another layer to virtual meeting etiquette
By Cathy Bussewitz, July 9, 2026
" 'People who use #AI notetakers, they don’t always know where the data goes,' said Justin Daniels, an Atlanta-based corporate attorney at law firm Baker Donelson. 'And in my context, if the data goes anywhere else and they’re not aware of it, that attorney-client-privileged conversation may not be attorney-client-privileged anymore.' "
https://apnews.com/article/ai-notetaker-work-meetings-privacy-data-c700299371ca7cfec77dafdfb948067f
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35 Years Later, An Iconic Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Coming Back To Theaters
James Cameron's cautionary tale is returning just when the world needs it most.
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/terminator-2-judgment-day-theatrical-re-release
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35 Years Later, An Iconic Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Coming Back To Theaters
James Cameron's cautionary tale is returning just when the world needs it most.
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/terminator-2-judgment-day-theatrical-re-release
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These #Maine #librarians are helping patrons resist #AI and #BigTech
by Bridget Huber, July 2, 2026
"In recent months, the #SearsmontME Town Library has added a new service for patrons: Help in removing AI from their phones and other devices.
" 'A lot of times, it’s just telling people that they have choices,' Library Director #StevenBrown said. 'Their phone came a certain way, but they don’t have to use it the way that it came.'
"Brown helps patrons disable AI-powered assistants like Siri or so-called smart features in email and switch from using Google, which doesn’t offer an option to search without AI overviews, to a browser that does.
"A big part of his job as a librarian has been helping people with information technology, he said. He sees helping people think critically about technology and AI as a natural extension of this work.
"While Brown’s long been skeptical of the purported benefits of technology for society, he didn’t start offering the #AIRemoval services until this spring, when he attended a webinar presented by #HannahCyrus, a #BangorME librarian who has become a leading voice in a nationwide movement of librarians who are working to help patrons understand the risks of AI and other technologies.
" 'I seem to have become the face of #AIHaters — which I’m fine with — in the library world,' Cyrus said.
"Cyrus, a reference librarian at the Bangor Public Library, teaches classes on how to use technology. But that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing and promoting it, she said.
" 'I really try to make sure people not only know where to tap or click to get done what they want to do, but to understand the values and issues at play as they’re using different pieces of technology,' she said.
"Commonly used tools like Gmail and Chat GPT are not neutral, she said. 'These are products created by giant #corporations who want your information and want your attention,' she said. “And that has real impacts on our lives.”
"The most popular class Cyrus has taught is called #AvoidingAI, which explains what #GenerativeAI is, some of the concerns around it, and how to disable it and find alternatives. The first time she taught the class in fall of 2025 more than 70 people enrolled. She taught it again this spring, and Brown was one of 20 Maine librarians to enroll. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/HRBPH#AIResistance #BigData #AISucks #MaineLibraries #LibrariesRule! #MaineResists #ResistAI
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These #Maine #librarians are helping patrons resist #AI and #BigTech
by Bridget Huber, July 2, 2026
"In recent months, the #SearsmontME Town Library has added a new service for patrons: Help in removing AI from their phones and other devices.
" 'A lot of times, it’s just telling people that they have choices,' Library Director #StevenBrown said. 'Their phone came a certain way, but they don’t have to use it the way that it came.'
"Brown helps patrons disable AI-powered assistants like Siri or so-called smart features in email and switch from using Google, which doesn’t offer an option to search without AI overviews, to a browser that does.
"A big part of his job as a librarian has been helping people with information technology, he said. He sees helping people think critically about technology and AI as a natural extension of this work.
"While Brown’s long been skeptical of the purported benefits of technology for society, he didn’t start offering the #AIRemoval services until this spring, when he attended a webinar presented by #HannahCyrus, a #BangorME librarian who has become a leading voice in a nationwide movement of librarians who are working to help patrons understand the risks of AI and other technologies.
" 'I seem to have become the face of #AIHaters — which I’m fine with — in the library world,' Cyrus said.
"Cyrus, a reference librarian at the Bangor Public Library, teaches classes on how to use technology. But that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing and promoting it, she said.
" 'I really try to make sure people not only know where to tap or click to get done what they want to do, but to understand the values and issues at play as they’re using different pieces of technology,' she said.
"Commonly used tools like Gmail and Chat GPT are not neutral, she said. 'These are products created by giant #corporations who want your information and want your attention,' she said. “And that has real impacts on our lives.”
"The most popular class Cyrus has taught is called #AvoidingAI, which explains what #GenerativeAI is, some of the concerns around it, and how to disable it and find alternatives. The first time she taught the class in fall of 2025 more than 70 people enrolled. She taught it again this spring, and Brown was one of 20 Maine librarians to enroll. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/HRBPH#AIResistance #BigData #AISucks #MaineLibraries #LibrariesRule! #MaineResists #ResistAI
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We Mapped Rural #DataCenter Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found
Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.
by Julia Tilton and Sarah Alexander Melotte June 29, 2026
Excerpt: "Though the majority of in-progress #datacenters are in metropolitan areas, our reporting and data analysis show that large data centers, characteristic of the current boom, represent outsized investments in rural areas. Smaller populations often mean smaller tax bases and fewer government officials, leaving rural communities with fewer resources to negotiate deals with developers or weather the tax revenue fallout after facility closures.
The Geography of the Data Center Boom
"The following map shows the number of data centers in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, or rural, counties. As of June 2026, approximately 30 of the 529 data centers currently in operation are located in rural counties, representing about 6% of operating data centers. At the time of this analysis, 16 rural data centers were either recently approved or currently under construction, representing about 12% of all in-progress projects.
"The Daily Yonder uses a county-level definition of rural derived from the Office of Management and Budget (#OMB). All counties outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) are classified as rural for the purposes of this analysis.
Information on the locations of data centers comes from #FracTrackerAlliance, an organization providing the public with interactive tools to understand #oil, #gas, #petrochemical, and data center development across the country.
"While there are many other datasets out there tracking data center development, few of them are publicly accessible, making a complete analysis difficult. We chose #FracTracker because of the organization’s methods for obtaining data and the monthly frequency with which it updates the database. We saw that frequency as a key metric for tracking this fast-evolving issue. FracTracker obtains information from crowd sourcing, media announcements, partner datasets, and public records. While the organization is primarily focused on proposed data centers, it is slowly adding existing data centers to the database.
"That means that the data used in this analysis is preliminary. Because it is a work in progress, FracTracker encourages readers to share new and updated information about data centers in their own communities via a submission form."
#USDatacenterMap #BigOilAndGas #BigData #DatacenterResistance #USPol #RuralAreas #AISucks
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We Mapped Rural #DataCenter Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found
Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.
by Julia Tilton and Sarah Alexander Melotte June 29, 2026
Excerpt: "Though the majority of in-progress #datacenters are in metropolitan areas, our reporting and data analysis show that large data centers, characteristic of the current boom, represent outsized investments in rural areas. Smaller populations often mean smaller tax bases and fewer government officials, leaving rural communities with fewer resources to negotiate deals with developers or weather the tax revenue fallout after facility closures.
The Geography of the Data Center Boom
"The following map shows the number of data centers in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, or rural, counties. As of June 2026, approximately 30 of the 529 data centers currently in operation are located in rural counties, representing about 6% of operating data centers. At the time of this analysis, 16 rural data centers were either recently approved or currently under construction, representing about 12% of all in-progress projects.
"The Daily Yonder uses a county-level definition of rural derived from the Office of Management and Budget (#OMB). All counties outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) are classified as rural for the purposes of this analysis.
Information on the locations of data centers comes from #FracTrackerAlliance, an organization providing the public with interactive tools to understand #oil, #gas, #petrochemical, and data center development across the country.
"While there are many other datasets out there tracking data center development, few of them are publicly accessible, making a complete analysis difficult. We chose #FracTracker because of the organization’s methods for obtaining data and the monthly frequency with which it updates the database. We saw that frequency as a key metric for tracking this fast-evolving issue. FracTracker obtains information from crowd sourcing, media announcements, partner datasets, and public records. While the organization is primarily focused on proposed data centers, it is slowly adding existing data centers to the database.
"That means that the data used in this analysis is preliminary. Because it is a work in progress, FracTracker encourages readers to share new and updated information about data centers in their own communities via a submission form."
#USDatacenterMap #BigOilAndGas #BigData #DatacenterResistance #USPol #RuralAreas #AISucks
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It's #HammerTime!
#Illinois Drops the Hammer on #AI Companies
#Pritzker isn't playing.
By AJ Dellinger
Published July 6, 2026,"On Monday, Illinois Governor #JBPritzker signed the #ArtificialIntelligence Safety Measures Act into law, giving the Midwest state arguably the strictest set of regulations yet designed to protect its citizenry from the risks posed by the growing power of frontier AI companies.
"According to a press release from the Governor’s office, the AI Safety Measures Act creates a framework that will require the 'developers of the largest advanced AI systems' (read: #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google, etc.) to provide public disclosures as to their safety practices, report any significant #SafetyIncidents, and remain in line with a set of compliance processes. It also creates a channel for #whistleblowers working inside AI labs to safely and securely relay any safety concerns they might have without fear of repercussions.
"A lot of the law is in line with what states like #California and #NewYork have passed already, but Illinois is claiming a 'first-in-the-nation' distinction for one major part of its efforts: It is the only state that will require AI systems to undergo regular, independent third-party safety audits. That requirement will apply to any AI company reporting more than $500 million in revenue. Those requirements are set to go into effect on January 1, 2028, now that the bill has been signed into law."
Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/illinois-drops-the-hammer-on-ai-companies-2000781932#TechBros #USPol #IllinoisPol #AISucks #AIRegulations #TechOligarchs
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LOL connect you with the AI and tech community? I think you've got the wrong template for this instance. 🤪 #AISUCKS
