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everyrose @everyrose.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Big Tech is profiting from online harms inflicted on Australians. One thing would change this faster than any regulator: the right for you to seek compensation. Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au petition now: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/big-tech

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✍️ PETITION: Make Big Tech pay when they harm Australians

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...

Anthropic’s $32b Queensland data centre to run on coal and gas power until renewables are built

I frontier lab Anthropic’s first Australian data centre at Zerra DC’s proposed $32 billion project in regional Queensland will be powered by coal and gas as a bridge until renewables to support the facility are built.

Wambo Cattle Company managing director Max Winders, the owner of the land Zerra plans to build on, told Capital Brief he expects fossil fuels to power the massive project for the foreseeable future.

“I think we’ll be using fossil fuels for quite a long time in Queensland, anyhow, certainly enough to be able to get the power to drive the data centres,” he said.

Winders said that he believed that the concessions Queensland Premier David Crisafulli negotiated “at National Cabinet was critical” for ensuring the Western Downs development has the best chance of being built.

“In all likelihood, they’ll just link up to the grid, sign a contract with the state energy provider, and then, likely draw the power from the coal plants that are already there.”

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have a look at this Robert - it might change your mind… The big supermarket gouge prices, engage in wage theft and rip off farmers and food producers. I think it’s a great idea - a great force - groceries are up 24% over last 5 years

Obscene profits from Coles & Woolworths vs wages and inflation

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Young pple overwhelmingly understand tt their govts are failing to stop pollution fr coalmining & coal-burning fr fuelling the rising heat,the rising prices,the collapsing ecosystems.My conscience is troubled by having encouraged them to engage politely in the public processes tt keep failing them"

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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For a glimpse into @DavidShoebridge's vision, he wrote this for Deepcut a month ago. www.deepcutnews.com/p/we-can-bea...

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We can beat the 1 per cent – David Shoebridge

Australia’s Left must unite and rise to meet the moment

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

the tobacco industry is a more fitting comparison to big tech (and data centre boom) than the car industry

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This chart in the 2026 Intergenerational Report is not at all comforting. Sea level rise, higher temps, lower crop yields and declines in tourism are all projected to drive Australia's GDP down, by up to 1.5% by 2066. treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul... #auspol #climatecrisis

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday the Senate agreed to my motion that calls on the government to fix our broken lobbying laws. It's time for politics to work for Australians, and that starts with lobbying reform. This is a great first step. Go to www.fixlobbying.com.au and join my call for lobbying reform.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why does ABC News continue to platform the misleadingly named 'Business Council of Australia' without mentioning the exteme unrepresentativeness of its membership? 1. Mostly very large enterprises, including government enterprises. 2. Few in number. 3. Many not Australian.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

*Operational* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 1% of total operational gas w/ dedicated industrial purpose. *PLANNED* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 66% of total planned. Planned data centre gas plants are twice the total capacity of all other applications combined.

Global operational gas plant capacity by industry: chemicals and oil & refining dominate with tens of thousands of MW, while data centres appear as a tiny purple bar near the baseline, indicating minimal capacity compared with major industrial sectors.

Bar chart titled "Planned gas plants" (global megawatt capacity, Gem Aug 2026) showing data centres dominating planned capacity as a tall magenta bar (~180,000 MW) while many other industries appear as much smaller orange bars along the bottom

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The fact the AUS Govt is cutting funding to the #NDIS yet provides subsidies, tax credits & financial support to the hugely profitable fossil fuels sector, even as the climate crisis worsens, tells me everything I need to know about "Australian values": profits over people & the planet. 😠 #auspol

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is horrifying! 🚨 “AI technology that listens to and transcribes patients’ consultations with doctors can put them at risk by getting the names of drugs and illnesses wrong, an NHS watchdog has warned.” Full Guardian article here: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Really good work by Alan Kohler (and yes he does use a couple of my grpahs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlg...

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Australians got a massive paycut in 2021 — and they're angry | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Shitposting as Constitutional Due Process @codepwnie.org · 28/08/2026

The tech billionaires are so clueless and out of touch they think “woke” is the reason we turned against them—showing just how stupid they really are. We dislike them because they dehumanize us, treat us workers like widgets and not human beings. They steal our wages and buy elections.

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"There are many problems with the way this system works. A tool [interest rates] designed to manage business investment now operates more like a tax – redistributing money from younger, working households with large mortgages to older, wealthier households with savings." #AusPol

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The RBA’s view of inflation reflects conventional economic wisdom, not Australians’ lived experience

The RBA sits at the centre of the disconnect between economic theory and cost-of-living reality. The RBA is charged with keeping inflation between 2-3%, a task it has largely failed to achieve for ove...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm surprised big fertilizer corporations let this brilliant woman live. Her name is Dr. Mariangela Hungria.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 30/08/2026

With AUKUS, Australia has accepted a requirement to participate in any future war against our largest trading partner and the source of much of the nation’s wealth, while at the same time making ourselves into a legitimate target for Chinese retaliation. trib.al/5pSmQJu

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How AUKUS could destroy Australia

Recently, both Anthony Albanese and the Pentagon’s No. 3 official, Elbridge Colby, have separately reiterated that the AUKUS project remains ‘full steam ahead’.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Must read" can be overused, but this is it. Anthony Albanese needs to read Flanagan's words. He just might understand the huge mistake he made appointing Jillian Segal, and resourcing Israel's toxic foreign influence operation. Except that he has "all the spine of a liquorice stick". 💥 #auspol

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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Woodside has ditched its feeble scope 3 emissions reduction and new energy investment targets, despite years of investor pressure demanding stronger climate action and windfall profits off the back of the war in the Middle East. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Woodside scraps long-term emissions and clean energy targets despite windfall oil profits caused by Iran war

Australia’s biggest oil and gas company recorded a 27% increase in sales profit to $1.67bn in the six-month reporting period

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community. Today, a staggering 75% do. Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026

I have become pretty obsessed with why people - including many climate and renewable advocacy groups - keep insisting that "data centres will drive the energy transition" Here is a ~5,000 word essay I wrote on my blog that digs into why this keeps happening -->>> ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/p...

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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Eden™️ @edenarachnelatro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@albomp.bsky.social enough! Really. This is just another foreign power insisting that it's interests are more important than ours. They are not. It is truly offensive to find ourselves kowtowing to this Israeli mouthpiece. It's time to end this nonsense.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/07/2026

We warned you. www.greenpeace.org.au/greenpeace-r...

NT government opens door to global AI industry powered by Beetaloo gas
By Tom Robinson and Sam Parry
ABC Rural

Topic:AI

Posted Fri at 11:25pm

There are early signs of a data centre-fuelled gas boom in Australia, which will come with massive, nationally significant climate costs. For example, the Tamboran proposal for the Northern Territory would effectively double the state’s emissions. In NSW, Cloud Carrier’s proposed gas-fired project would wipe out NSW’s entire projected 2028 emissions cuts.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Gareth Evans telling it like it is, namely AUKUS is: “more likely than not to prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defence/2026/07/25/case-against-aukus

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The case against AUKUS

As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.

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The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/07/2026

Another day, another government climate agency pointing out that unchecked data centre growth directly impacts climate targets 🫠 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Coal mine expansions and a surge in new data centres risk pushing New South Wales further from its emissions reduction targets, which the state's independent climate watchdog says it is already on course to miss.

The NSW Net Zero Commission (NZC) annual progress report found the state is falling increasingly further behind on reducing emissions.

According to government projections, NSW will fall between 10 and 20 million tonnes short of its 2030 emissions target, up from an estimated 7 million tonnes the year prior.

It comes as 20 applications to extend coal mines sit in the planning system, including the proposal to extend Hunter Valley Operations currently before the Independent Planning Commission (IPC).

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We must be rolling in money, to be able to keep pouring billions into AUKUS. Not enough to fund public education properly or add dental/mental to Medibank, of course. Adelaide's Osborn Shipyard given an extra $4.6 billion. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

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Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/07/2026

The REAL reason it took Odysseus 10 years to get back to Ithaca.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bad enough that successive federal govts have made massive funding commitments with huge strategic risks, and that this has been done with no proper public explanation, parliamentary debate or inquiry. But any politician claiming a “democratic mandate” for #AUKUS is just gaslighting us. #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If this surgeon was part of the Australian system, and subject to #AHPRA regulation, he would likely be accused of 'antisemitism' and investigated. And possibly suspended from practice. Just for telling necessary truths. #GazaGenocide #auspol

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026

So here are some thoughts on this heatwave: against fatalism, against inevitability, and against the fossil fuel industry's ongoing efforts to ensure they do as much damage as they can over the coming decades. These fossil-fuelled extremes emerge from decisions we can identify in recent history

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Washington’s decision to cut off access to Anthropic’s newest frontier AI has forced Europe into a reckoning. share.google/MRkoxQgkcKtU...

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Anthropic shutdown ignites calls for sovereign AI across Europe | Fortune

Washington’s decision to cut off access to Anthropic’s newest frontier AI has forced Europe into a reckoning.

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Scott @gatorgrad.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hey Evangelical Christians?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/06/2026

I Excel'd the power cons of Google's deal with Elon Musk's fossil-fuelled data centre. Took me ~10 seconds Claude returned a similar answer, but consumed as much energy as **fully discharging** two smartphones, to do it This is why the shift to reliance on LLMs bloats energy consumption so badly

“We believe our compute infrastructure and related strategy provide us with substantial flexibility in how we allocate and monetise capacity,” SpaceX wrote in its IPO filing inside the section of “compute service agreements with third parties.”

Over a hundred thousand dedicated processors
According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, processors and memory components deployed in SpaceX’s data centres.

The utilisation window will be between October 2026 and June 2029.

The regulatory filing of SpaceX

111000 units

700 watts

77700000 watts
77.7 MW

Here's a breakdown of the power consumption for 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, using the H100 as the reference (the most common high-end AI GPU):

Power Consumption: 110,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Per-GPU specs
The H100 PCIe model has a TDP of 350W, while the SXM5 (data center) variant supports up to 700W TDP. Hyperstack

Total power at scale
ScenarioWatts per GPUTotal PowerH100 PCIe (350W)350 W38.5 MWH100 SXM5 peak (700W)700 W77 MWAvg operational (500W)500 W55 MW
On average during operations, an H100 draws around 500W, so a realistic cluster of 110,000 would consume roughly 55 megawatts under typical load. LinkedIn

To put 55–77 MW in perspective:

⚡ ~45,000–65,000 average homes — a small city's worth of residential electricity
🏭 Comparable to a mid-sized industrial facility or large data center campus
🌍 About the power output of a small hydroelectric dam
📅 Annually (~61% utilization): roughly 290,000–410,000 MWh/year

Annual energy cost (at $0.07/kWh data center rates)
ScenarioAnnual kWhEst. Cost/year350W / 61% util~207M kWh~$14.5M700W / 61% util~414M kWh~$29M

Context: 110,000 H100s is roughly the scale of a large hyperscaler AI cluster — similar to what Microsoft, Google, or Meta deploy for frontier model training. The cooling and power infrastructure alone for such a cluster is a significant engineering challenge, typically requiring dedicated substations and often liquid cooling systems.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

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PalantirWatch — Tracking Palantir Technologies

Independent watchdog tracking Palantir's contracts, executives, lobbying, legal exposure, and global footprint. OSINT-driven public interest research.

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Bill Sugden @billsugden.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Is Pauline Hanson opposed to everything you care about?

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