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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 46m

Gathering was one of 19+ across WA organized by @wa-air.bsky.social to advocate for a state-level #moratorium on #datacenters before next legislative session. Demonstrations were scheduled in Spokane, Walla Walla, Moses Lake, Olympia, Tacoma, Cle Elum & Bainbridge Island. @troublemakers.bsky.social

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isaac @sevier.io · 2h

Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.

oilchange.org

Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International

In short:

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 4h

OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slowly filling with rage as I think about how none of the people who blocked another solar farm last week are going to say a damn word about the asthma factory reopening by my kid's school.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Across the state, folks have come out to call for a moratorium on the energy, water, job, & quality of life vampires called "data centers". “Silicon Valley’s motto is ‘Move fast and break things’ … and legislators are slow to catch up,” says @evansutton.bsky.social. Stop Big Tech bullying NOW.

seattletimes.com

Protests in Seattle, across WA call for pause on AI data center boom

At least 19 protests across the state called for a moratorium on big data centers, amid a slew of concerns around AI, privacy and resource consumption.

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Thomas Meyer @tmeyer24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great event in Seattle at the Beacon Hill light rail station, getting the word out about AI data centers in Washington state. Almost everyone we talked to wants a statewide moratorium! @foodandwater.bsky.social @wa-air.bsky.social

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Mutton of the Sea @muttonofthesea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not sure who your state legislative representative is? Use the District Finder, then call or write & tell them to ban AI data centers. @wa-air.bsky.social ://app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/

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Mutton of the Sea @muttonofthesea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Sunday, Washington! If you believe that the last thing our state needs is AI data centers, join the @wa-air.bsky.social Day of Action and let your elected officials know that it’s time to pass a state-wide moratorium. There are also protests scheduled if you feel like protesting!

Data Center Moratorium Now! Day of Action: October 4. Washington AI Resistance
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Day of Action Oct. 4 with protests in Seattle, West Seattle, Ellensburg, Beacon Hill, Cle Wlum, Lyle, Olympia, wall walla, UW, Tacoma, Bainbridge Island, Bingen, Montlake Terrace, Wenatchee, Moses Lake, and Spokane

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We out here #moratoriumnow

Banners over freeway reading

Stop AI data centers

Moratorium now

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% this. Error-prone products that also happen to set the world on fire, not by error but by absurd design.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026

- Decent chance this thing gets branded as a data center enabler and is DOA with voters. Some bill text appears to make data center developers pay their own grid costs, but the fine print (AFAICT - not a lawyer!) seems to leave most important decisions voluntary and up to states/utilities.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a bad bill—bad for environmental justice, bad for climate, bad for humans. Some good people are fighting for it b/c they don't believe we can get better, but straight up, it's a bad bill. Sometimes we have to fight like hell for better options; it's the only way we get them.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% this. Error-prone products that also happen to set the world on fire, not by error but by absurd design.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worried or fed up? Sign up! actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Data Center Moratorium NOW! Day of Action: October 4. Washington AI Resistance.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

Today in "absolutely not"

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big Tech IS shady. Resist, and send a message to officials and hopefuls by planning a data center moratorium action for October 4! We need YOU to fight for this world with us: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Poster with three guys in dark trench coats that say Sam, Elon, and Dario, with larger text that says Big Tech is Shady, Resist AI.

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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The Amazon tech & corporate employees I represent want Congress & the public to know that if we don’t act now…Amazon & its execs will build a world in which all working people are surveilled, pushed out of high quality jobs, & terrified to step out of line.”—our own Eliza Pan, to Congress.

jayapal.house.gov

Jayapal Hosts Hearing on Big Tech and Surveillance AI - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

The full hearing can be watched HERE. WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), co-chair of the Monopoly Busters Caucus, hosted a hearing on the future of Artificial Intelligence...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is sort of the mostly unspoken factor. If this is true, and it seems to be at at least some level, then the data centers really aren’t infrastructure. They’re more like fuel. And then the economics I think just fall apart.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to write a letter with little more than these words and send it to every elected official on the planet.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YCSTA: “We have a small amount of billionaires and political insiders who have made it impossible to feel confident about the future,” he says. “They’ve destabilized our ecological system. They’ve destabilized the political order.”— @wewill2026.bsky.social

wired.com

The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey you! Yeah you! Have you checked out the new YouTube show we launched about the broligarchs and the people fighting to stop them? Here's a fun clip, and you can watch the whole thing here: www.youtube.com/@PeoplevsThe...

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026

lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

“The reality is, we don’t have to wait to see how AI will bring about unprecedented death and destruction, because we’ve already witnessed its unleashing.”

theguardian.com

It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein

Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these devices.”

theverge.com

What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety

It’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is exactly where I am landing. All these anhiliationist cults, from AI to Apocalyptic Evangelism, are just excuses for not taking meaningful action on the real actual threats facing our world that we have to live with.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powering data centers with renewables is merely ONE demand of many that we need to make. Extraordinary resource use requires extraordinary regulatory juice.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powering data centers with renewables is merely ONE demand of many that we need to make. Extraordinary resource use requires extraordinary regulatory juice.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my first intense encounter with corporate PR was during the frac boom, when companies made it sound like you were a naive dunce bc we’ve done this exact thing for decades — while failing to comment on scale and key differences. Same thing w AI now, w data centers getting orders of magnitude bigger

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New analysis from Evolved Energy Research highlights the potential impact of data center demand on natural gas prices and bills, as well as wholesale electricity prices: www.evolved.energy/posts/the-co...

evolved.energy

The Costs You Can't Bill: Data Centers and the Price of Load Growth

A data center pays for what it can be billed for. Its largest costs — higher gas bills, electricity bills, and equipment prices for everyone else — belong to no one.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you planned YOUR anti-data center action yet? We need Washington State to declare a moratorium so that we can decide under what circumstances—if any!—data centers benefit our communities. So our legislators need to hear us LOUD AND CLEAR. Join us on 10/4.

actionnetwork.org

MORATORIUM NOW: WA Statewide Day of Action to Stop Data Centers

We're coming together across Washington state on October 4 to make sure our leaders receive the message: we demand a moratorium and real regulation of data centers and AI that puts people first.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is absolutely true, AND we need laws that place the accountability for "rogue" AI (and other mishaps) DIRECTLY at the feet of the CEO's.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dr. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, founder of DAIR, said plenty of laws already apply to AI and claims of existential risks are overblown. “There is no AI exemption in existing statutes. Fraud is still fraud. Discrimination is still discrimination.” www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/t...

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Trump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry's calls for a slowdown

Anthropic and OpenAI have called for mandatory safety checks to be put in place as fears intensify that AI can soon be too powerful to control.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 15/09/2026

New Environmental Protection Network report finds unprecedented electricity demand for AI #datacenters carries significant risks to our health. Former EPA officials & health experts document 30+ federal actions making a more polluting AI buildout more likely. safernotsicker.org/take-action/...

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The Hidden Costs of AI Data Centers - Safer Not Sicker

The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers AI data center pollution can make people sick. Instead of protecting Americans’ health, the EPA is making the health risks worse. A new report finds the unpr...

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