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“A tech reporter takes on an ever-expanding story: the endless proliferation of massive data centers.” Kirkus named HYPERSCALE one of its best books to read in October. Another great signal as the release date gets closer! Preorder your copy now: hyperscalebook.com

A timely, vigorously researched and written work of tech and advocacy journalism. — Kirkus

Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. Out October 20, 2026

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Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes

“Just 7 percent of Brits think social media is a force for good and around one in three suspect that life would get better if all these sites were erased from the internet tomorrow.” Hard to disagree. Social media is a cancer and its social harms need to be taken seriously.

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So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda

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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 02/10/2026

wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it

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I went to Mississauga city council on Sept 16 and met up with the activists pushing for a pause on data centres, and watched grassroots organizing have a direct impact on a city. Despite the win, this is not the end of the data centre story in Canada. Listen to this podcast.

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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 02/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this piece, including the always wonderful @parismarx.com -- who seems to know a thing or two about data centres. If you want to hear more from Paris check out this interview with @steho.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/steh...

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check out @ericwickham.ca’s new podcast about the data centre fight in Mississauga! I’m one of the voices interviewed for it. Can’t wait to listen!

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The interview is out! @parismarx.com's Hyperscale is out Oct 20th, and you can catch them explaining what Hyperscale means and why these data centres have become the flashpoint for AI resistance below or anywhere you catch your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0IAx...

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The Sudden Rise of the Data Centre w/ Paris Marx (1038)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

Really happy to have @ketanjoshi.co back on the podcast to learn more about all the emissions being generated by the gas plants to power the tech industry’s data centers. There’s no chance of truly addressing climate change if the industry gets its way!

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If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first

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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law

Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.

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“There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds … but Hyperscale is the one I’ve got my eye on this fall.” @literaryhub.bsky.social recommends my book HYPERSCALE on its non-fiction list! Preorder now: hyperscalebook.com

Is Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest Otherwise

Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data
Empires by Paris Marx

There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds (often by publishers that still think Al might work for them), but Hyperscale is the one I've got my eye on this fall partly because I'm such a fan of author Paris Marx's podcast, Tech Won't Save Us.

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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News

“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.

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The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Add this to your reading list:

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The fight against AI starts with data centres but getting the full picture of the harms they create for the communities around them can be tough. So tune into Green Majority at 11am tomorrow on CIUT 89.5FM to catch my interview with @parismarx.com on their new book Hyperscale hyperscalebook.com

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Hyperscale by Paris Marx

An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.

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it’s weird going to watch a doc and having to see your own face on the big screen

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Hyperscale: Confessions of a Mini Elon Musk

“Paris’s book apparently lays out successful opposition movements and alternatives when you look at the table of contents. When the 20th comes around, you should buy it.” ❤️

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Hello, employees of our company. Today’s essay is about Paris Marx’s new book Hyperscale.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“we’re being assholes to virtually everyone, it’s mind boggling they don’t want to visit our country anymore”

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They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/09/2026

“What is most important, however, is to affirm that AI is different. … It is another form of intelligence with a mindset all its own, and there is zero evidence that it views humanity’s well-being and survival as a priority.” wtf is left media doing echoing this cultist doomerism?

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How AI Could Kill Us All

Mapping the pathways to human extinction.

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026

If you issue a public apology and offer pro bono IT services, you can not only get away with cybercrime but also monetize it through institutional lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/o...

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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.

Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"

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How can we build an organized force for tech justice? Oakland Tech Week is exploring the possibilities. DAIR's @timnitgebru.blacksky.app will be there in conversation with @parismarx.com and others. Event is sold out, but visit the OTW website for info on virtual options: urlvanish.com/6fe70bc9

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 29/09/2026

you’re going to want to read jeremy’s book on the extreme-right wing premier fucking not just with alberta, but all of canada

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My new book, “Dark Phoenix: The Rise, Fall, and Re-emergence of Danielle Smith,” is out two weeks from today! If you like my work on Alberta politics, please consider preordering it. Preorders are important in signalling demand to booksellers and media. Link below 👇👇👇

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Nvidia’s $150 Billion Buyback: A Lifeline for AI Hype, Not Everyday Investors - CNET

“That’s what shareholders expect — and they’ll be penalized if they’re not doing like their peers.” I spoke to @cnet.com about why Nvidia is doing big share buybacks and why its new AI security system is designed to capitalize on recent doomer narratives.

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Nvidia is the one AI company with real profits. Its buyback shows who benefits first.

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AI data centres in N.L.? The door is ‘open for business,’ says energy minister | CBC News

“Does it make sense to be giving that electricity over to data centres when there might be better ways that it can be used?” I spoke to CBC News to explain why data centres likely won’t be a good fit for Newfoundland and Labrador.

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The provincial government has been approached by companies looking to develop AI data centres. Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says the province is open for business, though some experts urge caution.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.

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shouldn’t it be the US that gets isolated in this case?

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elon musk continuing not to understand how space works. in the 2010s, it was everyone can have a car, we don’t need public transit. now it’s evolved to everyone can have a penthouse.

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