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As opposition grows, disinformation campaigns threaten to divide local movements. Here’s how communities can keep their campaigns against AI data centers focused on facts and shared concerns.
Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.
The danger AI poses can be understood as an extrapolation of the disruptions we’re already experiencing from Big Tech’s stranglehold over our lives.
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
Humanity is outsourcing its executive control of nearly every key sector—finance, warfare, medicine, agriculture—to algorithms with no moral capacity. If you are wondering what could go wrong, the answer is plenty.
The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.
Remember, these industry leaders are doing what they do for money—and lots of it. They are choosing to endanger the property and lives of others for personal profit. If they mess up, they should be forced to pay a very high price.
Unlike previous technological revolutions, AI has the potential to reshape economies, education, science, healthcare, communication, and political decision-making.
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future.
Whatever else AI may do, its data centers will consume vast amounts of energy and keep driving fossil-fuel emissions for years to come, lending us humans a distinct helping hand in overheating this planet
The passage of New York’s statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
