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We'll see if i ever use it, but I've just created an account on the fediverse (what a horrendous name): @counterapparatus@autonomous.zone
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lets put our lives in common// face challenges together// steadily accumulate small realities// reassemble livable worlds from the ruins of this one 🏴🌱
Austin, Tejas Katılım Nisan 2009
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Coal cost more than other forms of energy at the onset of the industrial revolution, but capitalists chose coal because it allowed them to better discipline labor
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
"AI can cost more than human workers now," per Axios
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@EbenZergaw @felpix_ 30% of compute is being used for training right now though
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@VictorishB123 @felpix_ What about the combined cycle gas turbines used by most hyperscale data centers to provide power? Massive water use there? Can’t exclude energy from water use. Many closed loop systems still rely on evaporative cooling towers as well
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@felpix_ The biggest consumer of water in a modern data center is watering its lawn and that consumed by the restrooms and break room. The cooling systems are closed loop and do not consume water daily.
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@EbenZergaw @felpix_ How many burgers equal a training run for an 10 trillion parameter model? And should people be eating that many burgers when the ecological toll of cattle ranching is so high ?
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Sunday, May 17, 11:00am PDT
CLASS COMPOSITIONS IN A TIME OF FASCISM
w/ @CharmaineSChua , Silvia Federici, Kieran Knutson, Peter Linebaugh, @AmericanWork47 (mod)
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@mattyglesias nuanced take, genuine question: How much do you suggest we ask to get paid to raise our children next to a 4 gigawatt gas plant that regularly turns on diesel generators? What is the price we should put on the years of life cut short for ourselves and our community members?
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I am skeptical of the data center NIMBYs and incredulous at the extremist pro-data center posts from some of the tech guys on here.
If the facilities are economically lucrative, cut a deal with locals to make it worth their while. This shouldn't be a huge thing.
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The Trump administration today waived dozens of environmental and public health laws to speed construction of border barriers and roads through 60 miles of the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River in Texas, a protected stretch running through the Big Bend region
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Russia was US’ largest supplier of uranium until the war in Ukraine started. Now they are desperately looking to expand uranium mining within the countries colonial borders. No uranium mining anywhere!
𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔢@fuckhope1491
This weekend we'll be gathering near Red Butte/Wii’i Gdwiisa in so-called Arizona to defend land, water, & communities threatened by uranium extraction & haul routes tied to the Pinyon Plain Mine.
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🚨SHOCKING🚨: Amazon proposes an extra 414 backup diesel generators at its New Carlisle, IN data center complex.
This brings the total for Project Rainier to 909 backup diesel generators totaling >2,400 MW.
It will store more than 6.1 million gallons of diesel fuel onsite.🤯
Ben Inskeep@Ben_Inskeep
Amazon is asking permission to destroy 5 acres of wetlands and nearly 1 mile of streams as part of its resubmitted proposal to add 14 data center buildings at a third site at its sprawling New Carlisle, IN campus. Public comment is due June 12.
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If AI companies are so compute starved, why is it that XAI was able to part with 300 MW (even after announcing massive training runs) for their competitor? And how is it that this paltry amount of compute allowed Anthropic to double their rate limit?
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The good news for us fighting data center development is that this is all an elaborate house of cards built on lies and the whole thing is coming crashing down.
Ed Zitron@edzitron
Free newsletter: Despite stories about gigawatts of capacity coming online, the vast majority of announced data centers have yet to be built, with many running far behind schedule. I believe NVIDIA is warehousing at least a million Blackwell GPUs. wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-…
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the current flood of data centers is nothing to do with "the internet or modern computing and communication." AI data centers are not making the internet faster or more-available. They are there to offer inference for companies that won't exist in two years
Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉@jmhorp
People will say "but we get something useful from watering almonds... Almonds! What do we get from data centers?" Umm, we get the Internet, and modern computing and communication? economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/05/13/the…
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The NAACP filed a lawsuit against xAI in April 2026, alleging it illegally operates over two dozen gas turbines at its Southaven, Mississippi data center without proper air permits
But in Northern Virginia, hyperscale AI datacenters get away with using eight gas turbines per bldg
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"My community was afraid that the violence we saw on our screens could soon be replicated here. The council decided to be proactive & look for tangible ways to deprive the mass deportation machine of the local infrastructure on which it so heavily relies."
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Indigenous peoplehood, at least in the way many Indigenous anarchists or anticolonial Indigenous thinkers use it, points toward kinship continuity, place-based relations, obligations rather than citizenship, uneven & plural lifeways, continuity with land without requiring a state
SANKTVALENTIN@PROLETDIKTATUR
"It's not nationalism, it's peoplehood(?) tied to land and its reproduction"
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while we're talking about gas turbines, the EPA this week quietly made it a lot easier for hyperscalers to start building gas infrastructure while they are waiting for their air permit approvals, which puts a lot of pressure on state agencies to approve: insideclimatenews.org/news/11052026/…
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Texas' booming data center industry could dramatically increase pressure on the state's water supply in the coming years, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin. kut.org/energy-environ…
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A single 9 GW AI datacenter like Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos monstrosity in Box Elder County Utah will use as much electricity as 7 million active, primary American households, which is 5.3% (roughly 1 in every 19) of all occupied residences in the US
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