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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 18/09/2026

@microsoft.com has 38 gigawatts of data center capacity planned by 2032. Just how big is 38 GW? If Microsoft was a country, this means they would have the 35th largest electrical capacity in the *world*. If that electricity isn't being generated by renewables, our planet is cooked – literally.

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Microsoft plans 38 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, Bloomberg News reports

Microsoft plans to build out its data-center capacity to about 38 gigawatts by 2032, more than triple its current footprint, Bloomberg News reported ‌on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matt...

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Yet one way of reading the backlash is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation it has come wrapped in. Is this really the only future on offer?”

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Markus Sulzbacher @msulzbacher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Breaking: Aktivist*innen besetzen Google-Rechenzentrum in Kronstorf

Transparent am Dach: Rechenzentrum? Nein, Danke! Davor ein Bagger

Transparent am Dach: Rechenzentrum? Nein, Danke!

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Interviewer: Describe your special interest. Me:

Panoramic view of an urban area, with six arrows pointing to buildings that all say "data centre"

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 21/08/2026

Wish that the horizon for alternative visions for technology didn't so often end up just being "the bad thing everyone is mad about, but nice"

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Fun fact: In Swiss German, we actually call it “compi”!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

Journalist Karen Hao gestures as she is seated onstage with author Carissa Véliz at the Hay book festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.

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Milonguero Cyclista 💃🏼🕺🏼🚲 @chamsinista.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Iemand noemde generatieve AI de asbest in de muren van onze kennis. Het verwijderen van asbest heeft veel meer gekost dan het gebruik ervan ooit opleverde. Dit wordt erger.

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jesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10/05/2026

I just can’t get over how willing the populace is to cede its fundamental right and ability _to_think_. Since when did that become so onerous and burdensome? Why do such large numbers of people find the idea of giving up analytical thinking a plus? Astounding and horrifying.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"In truth, anti-datacenter organizing is the real fight, one centered on an industry choke point... Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes?"

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/04/2026

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/03/2026

"if we don't build out data centers AI will be too expensive for the plebs" bro it's already expensive it's just subsidized with funny money!! Show me a monopoly that has lowered its prices as it became the dominant vendor!!

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

hopefully you can read and write and think and feel when chatbots go offline

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In other words, companies like OpenAI do not develop consumer products, but merely launch demos that can be retracted once they've fulfilled their function—never mind that in the meantime,they are flooding our mediascape with a deluge of slop and destroying entire cultural sectors in the process 3/

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m curious if the images have been produced with generative AI, like we’ve seen with other far-right movements.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There's a learned helplessness here that feels a lot like obeying in advance. Use your brain, don't let anyone tell you you can't, and definitely don't tell others they can't.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

very sad about meta's metaverse news. i met my wife in the metaverse.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"The aspect of AI which sabotages it in social settings, its tendency to generate collateral damage through out-of-distribution errors & so-called hallucinations, ceases to be a problem in conflicts where maximum indiscriminate damage is the actual point" zenodo.org/records/1890...

screenshot of FT headline reading "The AI-driven ‘kill chain’ transforming how the US wages war Systems from Palantir and Anthropic are helping to turn torrents of battlefield data into thousands of strikes" https://www.ft.com/content/fedb262e-e6db-40bc-a4d0-080812f0f82b

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

“AI is perceived as an omniscient entity with access to everything, but without emotions,” says Tal Hagin, an open-source intelligence analyst and media literacy educator – so people tend to trust it. “What you are using is actually a very advanced probability machine, not a truth box.”

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/03/2026

"anti-progress", "AI hater" etcetera

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 06/03/2026

Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities this week in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack.

Fars News Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Thursday that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in recent drone strikes.

Experts say Amazon’s facilities were likely targeted by Iran. Microsoft said it had not experienced any outages in the region.

The strikes mark what is believed to be the world’s first military attack against the US “hyperscalers” that dominate the global cloud computing market.

That could create a chilling effect on the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s plans to spend billions of dollars on local AI infrastructure in the coming years, a crucial plank of the oil-rich states’ efforts to diversify their economies.

“The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

Just read through the intro chapter preview and to say I'm excited seems like a massive understatement. Can't wait for it to come out in April!

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mark Rutte best illustrates what neoliberalism and extreme right authoritarianism have in common: a strong disdain for the rule of law, int. law and human rights; the deeply held conviction that, ultimately, might is right; and the presupposition that 'freedom' merely belongs to white, wealthy men.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yup. See also the shift to drones and autonomous weapons systems.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/03/2026

"We want the murder software to murder accurately" isn't the absolution everyone seems to think it is. Anthropic is enacting a huge PR campaign and too many people are helping them

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026

too tired to engage directly but "other fields have to balance both sides" replies need to imagine a world in which a paper starting with "tobacco is known to benefit x,y, &z while it also poses risks to lung cancer" is acceptable

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/02/2026

I'm something of a supply chain risk myself

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Livio Liechti @livliilvil.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

Join us on 6 March at 16.00 for a data centre walk to the yet-to-be-built but already highly controversial Microsoft hyperscaler in Amsterdam Sloterdiijk. Co-organised by Papertrail, @yancong.bsky.social and the critical infrastructure lab. Sign up here: www.criticalinfralab.net/upcoming/?id...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/02/2026

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/02/2026

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance” 🔥

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 28/01/2026

Me when I find out my employer, maker of software solutions for genocide, is doing bad things: 😧

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

‼️New article out "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Latin America" where we investigate the feral effects of cloud industry's compensatory projects to mitigate environmental impacts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Sheep herder announces new skills training courses, sponsored by wolves!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Their entire industry deserves to die

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