#data-centers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #data-centers, aggregated by home.social.
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Also, for Victorians!
#elections #australia #auspol #politics #ai #datacenters
COMMUNITY SUMMIT: On Saturday 5 September 10am-5pm, meet with activists from the rapidly growing campaigns against data centres and AI .
We will come together to build relationships, share resources, and plan how to use the three months before the state election to build a powerful movement. It's a free event, but please be sure to register here: https://events.humanitix.com/ai-data-centre-community-summit. Volunteers are preparing a delicious lunch, so we need to know how many are coming. -
On Sunday night, the New Mexico Supreme Court granted a temporary stay on proceedings over an air quality permit for Project Jupiter. Breaking story; check back for updates.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/nm-supreme-court-pauses-project-jupiter-air-permit/3108233
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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 -
The Guardian is becoming as bad as the NYT, thanks to fucking sellouts such as Gene Marks. I should probably cancel my subscription.
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Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers - The AI Daily Brief www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t4RC5… #AI #DataCenters (focused on solutions in the last half of the video)
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Opposition to AI Goes Beyond Data Centers, as Poll Shows Massive Distrust of Big Tech CEOs | Common Dreams
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The backlash against AI, data centers, and Trump's surveillance state is in full swing.
The November midterms could be our last chance to stop the steamroller of fascism. https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/surveillance-state-on-the-ballot/ #AI #surveillance #datacenters
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Montana law provides eminent-domain authority in certain circumstances for:
⚡ regulated public utilities
🔥 qualifying common-carrier pipelines
🏗️ certain facilities certified under Montana's Major Facility Siting Act
#MTPol #AI #DataCenters #Montana
#BroadviewMT mineral rights explanation:
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The fight over data centers is suddenly at the epicenter of the midterm elections.
One new ad in Texas begins with someone typing into a chatbot, “Why is my electric bill going up?” (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/data-centers-midterm-elections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.8N8H.YS4hyjC0jZQJ&smid=url-share #AI #datacenters #bigtech
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Isn’t anyone the least bit curious: what exactly is all this DATA that we must destroy the ENTIRE WORLD for, to ensure that it’s all in these data centers?
Put another way, is there ANY data that DOESN’T need to be in the data centers (besides the Epstein Files, I mean)? I’m thinkin’: no.
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This story is four days-old.
Paywalled https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-big-techs-frantic-race-to-quell-the-growing-backlash-to-ai-2a717339
WSJ: Inside Big Tech’s frantic race to quell the growing backlash to AI https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inside-big-tech-s-frantic-race-to-quell-the-growing-backlash-to-ai/ar-AA2apL7M #BigTech #datacenters
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America’s Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First…
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Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment
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Considering the shown abilities (fluid movements, agilities...) we (the public) get way to much distracted/misinformed about the advancements of this tec, not only in China.
Combine this with AI and some predictions of the most important experts in both fields (interesting yt channel #InsideAI) you will get scared almost like with the facts @ZLabe is showing about the climate.So all that pushing to install endless places with #datacenters *is* an arms race.
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Server DRAM prices are entering a new phase.
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and data centers is putting sustained pressure on memory demand, making server DRAM increasingly important to the overall hardware supply chain.
Long-term contracts can give major buyers greater supply visibility and help memory manufacturers plan production, but they can also change how pricing risk is distributed. As demand remains strong, contract structures may become an increasingly important factor in determining the real cost of server memory.
For data-center operators, hardware resellers, and IT asset managers, this matters beyond the initial purchase price. Changes in DRAM pricing can influence server upgrade costs, inventory values, procurement strategies, and the resale value of existing memory.
We take a closer look at how long-term contracts are reshaping server DRAM pricing and what this could mean for the broader memory market.
Read the full analysis:
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/server-dram-prices-long-term-contracts/#DRAM #ServerMemory #MemoryMarket #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #Semiconductors #MemorySupply #ITHardware #DataCenterInfrastructure #AI #tech
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Server DRAM pricing is entering a new phase as AI and data-center demand reshape the memory market. Long-term contracts can provide more predictable supply, but they may also change how pricing risk is distributed between memory suppliers and large buyers.
Read the full analysis:
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/server-dram-prices-long-term-contracts/#DRAM #ServerMemory #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #MemoryMarket #Semiconductors #AI
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Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black.
Tens of thousands of people have been without power for nearly two weeks.
Many are without safe water as well.
Yet every data center is up and running.
Using enormous amounts of both power and water to enrich the billionaire owners.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
#uspol #oligarchy #poverty #abolishbillionaires #indiana #gary #datacenters
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Analysis Shows All Those Data Centers Under Construction Will Output As Much CO2 As 24 Million Cars
https://www.jalopnik.com/2241059/analysis-data-centers-under-construction-same-co2-24-million-cars/
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The Maine Monitor: Even small Maine towns are weighing data center bans. “Several small towns across Maine are weighing temporary bans on data center development as a nationwide backlash against artificial intelligence and Big Tech continues to grow. Larger communities like Bangor quickly passed moratoriums this spring. Fears of data centers are reaching many smaller towns, with several towns […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/22/the-maine-monitor-even-small-maine-towns-are-weighing-data-center-bans/ -
The Guardian: Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips? . “The chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s biggest technology companies need vast numbers of them to keep ahead. Microsoft is one of them. And, on paper, it seems to have a problem. A […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/22/the-guardian-are-microsofts-ai-plans-being-held-back-by-a-shortage-of-chips/ -
New Rule: Anyone in charge of a company or with stock in a company building #LLM #datacenters no longer gets to call foul when other people simply take their IP and use it however they like.
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Teen Vogue: A Data Center Threatened a 17-Year-Old’s Hometown, So She Turned to TikTok. “Seventeen-year-old Sadie Esperanza Cisneros’s viral TikTok video started like so many others do: ‘Come with me…’ she says to the selfie camera, which is held above her head, showing her outfit. She’s wearing a white tee and low-rise jeans; her lashes are bold and freshly glued (a great promo for her […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/22/teen-vogue-a-data-center-threatened-a-17-year-olds-hometown-so-she-turned-to-tiktok/ -
The biggest 60 #datacenters under construction by America's leading #techcompanies will produce an extra estimated 101.5 million tons of #carbondioxide, pumping it into the #atmosphere at that level every year. That is like an additional 24 million gas cars driving around.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2241059/analysis-data-centers-under-construction-same-co2-24-million-cars/
#climatechange #greenhousegasemissions #ai #pollution #environment
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Honored to be quoted in Newsweek article on rising opposition to #datacenters: data centers concentrate costs such as higher electricity bills, pressure on water supplies and noise in host communities while spreading their economic benefits more widely
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-turn-on-data-centers-after-gop-warns-of-election-risk-12353751