How Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills
Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
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What Americans Can Learn from London’s War on Cars
To what degree can the US clap down on cars by implementing measures used successfully in London?
Read more...Silicon Valley’s AI Dreams Face a Blue-Collar Reality
AI energy needs are set to accelerate planetary damage, but in the meantime, they will generate a lot of blue-collar jobs.
Read more...Green Growth Claims Are Overstated – Our Study Shows Three Reasons Why
Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...5 Ways Data Centers Endanger Their Local Communities and the Country as a Whole
Yet more on why you should hate data centers.
Read more...Fox News Defines Most Americans as Anti-American
Fox News brands the majority of Americans as official enemies, echoing extra-legal ““domestic terrorism organizations” in Trump’s NSPM-7.
Read more...Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers
Moneyed interests are linking support of two bête noires, coal and data centers, to better shove them down voters’ throats
Read more...Seasonal Patterns That Farmers Trusted for Generations Have Suddenly Turned Unpredictable
Intense rains, extreme heat, and unstoppable pests are wiping out crops and farmers’ livelihoods as climate change scrambles the weather.
Read more...AI is Hungry for Power and You Are Footing the Bill
AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.
Read more...A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Comes Into View
Two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk from sea level increases.
Read more...Wildfires Used to ‘Go to Sleep’ at Night. Climate Change Has Them Burning Overtime
Wildfires now have longer burn-times; California has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.
Read more...It’s Ok to Love All the Bees (The Honey Bees, Too)
Are honey bees to blame for disappearing native bees?
Read more...Why Europe Can Still Face a Gas Crisis Without a Gas Shortage
The EU’s plans to buy US oil, LNG, and nuclear energy products to lower reliance on Russian gas by 2028 is costly!
Read more...The Fight Over ‘Critical Minerals,’ Explained
How the US is playing dog-in-the-manger with critical minerals by disregarding WTO rules so as to stymie China.
Read more...As Rocket Launches Increase, They May Be Polluting the Skies
Research suggests that rocket exhaust and debris could be threatening the ozone layer, though uncertainties persist.
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