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Fusion centers are honing in on anti-data center activists. This has important implications for environmental organizers, as a number eco- and Indigenous activists and organizations have focused in on AI. www.wired.com/story/us-law... by @drboguslaw.bsky.social
ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w... "Anthropic do not care. They never cared. And it’s pretty absurd that they managed to win the exact opposite perception in a PR battle, in advance of a looming IPO."
They're going to make it so expensive to use the no-AI versions of stuff aren't they
Anthropic partnering with the Gates Foundation on health and economic mobility while also making a deal to use the Memphis xAI data center polluting Boxtown, every day is a winding road
Man when I assumed that AI would get a too big to fail style bailout I didn't really expect it to become "what if the government took a massive stake in it", yikes yikes yikes
In a workshop on designing a "community owned data center" recently I blew everyone's mind by proposing that instead of banging our heads against the wall trying to think of LLM solutions to systemic problems they should just sell the compute to neighborhood gentrifiers and use the money to do stuff
got an email from someone saying my dissertation blog came up when they asked AI how much money Google Maps makes, huh
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