In this week’s newsletter: Anti-datacentre sentiment is growing across the political spectrum in the US – and the public is only just finding out about the potential effects on their energy bills

ALT: Vladimir Brichta: Pretends to Be Shocked in Novela

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

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An open letter to Microsoft demanding accountability on climate commitments. Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030 — but emissions keep rising. Sign the letter and demand action.

Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.

Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history. In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new datacenter campus, expanding our global datacenter capacity by approxim...

The environmental damage caused by the world's highest-consuming 10% of people is worth $1.7 trillion to $5.7 trillion a year. At the central and upper estimates, this is several times more than the i...

There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.

The producer price index was expected to increase 0.5% in April, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

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No matter what tech CEOs say in shiny advertisements and in closed-door meetings, Big Tech will not solve the climate crisis, writes Matt Williams.

Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants In what The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow called a “tense call” after his brief ouster from OpenAI in 2023, Sam Altman seemed unable to reckon with a “pattern of deception” across his time at the company: