Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the conseque...
The EU's plan to at least triple AI data center capacity over five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe
As AI adoption accelerates, we have to remember … Mastodon: Gerry McGovern / @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green : Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe's driest regions — Europe is plann...
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply
An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply. Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green and @Snoro@mastodon.social . LinkedIn: Eri...
A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation. Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green . Linke...
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details
How can this be? — Because law enforcement stacks the deck, and judges allow it, while legislatures ignore the injustices. — https://www.nbcnews.com/... CivicWhitaker / @civicwhitaker@mastodon … :...
A look at the data center economy of Ireland, which had 82 data centers in 2023, amid concerns about rolling blackouts due to pressure on the electrical grid
Datacentres are part of Ireland's vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Mastodon: @TeamMidwest@glammr.us , @icing@chaos.social , @jbond@mastod...
Framework Laptop 16 review: the modular system offers unprecedented customization, competent at mid-range gaming, but ran hot, froze, and glitched in testing
You're buying for the promise, not the performance. Brad Linder / Liliputing : Libits: Framework Laptop 16 review roundup, a pocket-sized travel router, Firefox 122, and budget phones with 90 Hz displ...
Teachers say many students, bought up with search features on their computers, are unfamiliar with directories and folders, forcing a rethink of lesson plans
Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course … Tweets: @mcsquared96 , @reckless , @gretchenamcc , @gretchenamcc , @gerrymcgovern , ...
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online ads is misleading because the benchmarks marketers use don't distinguish people buying from ads and those buying anyway
The Correspondent : Tweets: @alicesalisburyj , @flexlibris , @thepunkrockshop , @theofanning , @gerrymcgovern , @ingridlunden , @woganmay , @radiomorgenland , @saminprint , @frolleinjune , and @wolfi...
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system
Sundays are for making a house into a home … Tweets: Karen Hao / @_karenhao : IT'S HERE!!! The biggest story I've ever worked on. @techreview's very first interactive ever, which walks through a concr...