#data-centers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #data-centers, aggregated by home.social.
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In the second of two Sunday night orders, the New Mexico Supreme Court called a temporary halt to the state’s authorization of a new water well supporting construction of Project Jupiter, the data center campus under construction in Santa Teresa.
This story, too, will be updated throughout the day.
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@ashwin @trashheap @MsDropbear42 @lianna I agree with this, while at the same time:
I weight the #infrastructure damage from #computing #power as the higher priority to avoid which includes:
+ #datacenters
+ #people running it
+ #banks funding it (and @wars at the same time)This is the higher #priority than most cost.
Avoiding #AI therefore saves the demand (whole #list above) because of what it uses / involves [most bad / wasteful / consumptive things and same style people behind it].
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...Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data center companies "dug their own grave" and deserve the backlash they're facing after failing to win community support.
Those midterms may have been a reality check. And when they are done, the song may change.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/23/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-ai-backlash
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More and more people are posting texts and information online that are generated by AI—and inevitably contain a few errors. These are then automatically crawled, indexed, and stored (in huge data centers) by AI crawlers, only to be incorporated—inevitably with a few more errors—into new texts generated by AI for publication online. And so on. Little by little, the web is going to become a complete mess.
#AI #web #internet #aislop #text #information #artificialintelligence #data #datacenters
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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
