Tag: data centers
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A computer picked the wrong man. Police arrested him anyway. Memphis isn’t using this software – “at this time.”
Now that I have your attention on the Flock Camera issue – I think it is worth revisiting an issue I’ve been writing about that should be just as chilling – if not more. In January 2020, Detroit police arrested a man named Robert Williams on his front lawn, in front of his wife and…
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Disaster mitigation is boring. It’s also why Dyersburg’s water plant survived – and my question for xAI.
Let’s talk about disaster mitigation, because that is an important part of a representative’s job. Disaster mitigation means doing the work before the disaster. You study what can go wrong, you plan for it, and you spend a little now so it costs a lot less later. One major national study found federal mitigation grants…
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xAI’s turbines are poisoning Boxtown’s air – and the Trump DOJ just moved to kill the lawsuit
Imagine being a slave – and not being told you were free until two years after the fact. That’s Juneteenth. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 – declaring the enslaved people in the rebel states free. But paper doesn’t free anybody on its own. It took Union soldiers showing up – and…
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A bill in Congress would force data centers to come clean before they break ground
There’s a bill in Congress that would make it harder to pull off what happened in Memphis with xAI. It’s called the AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act. It says that before a company can build one of these giant data centers, it has to come out into the open first. Six months ahead…
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Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill
This is gonna piss you off, but we gotta talk about coal. There’s a sentence written in 1935 that’s about to show up on your power bill. Trump put out a poster this week – a coal miner with a pickaxe, smokestacks behind him, the words “President Trump’s Coal Actions Create 14,000 Jobs.” Very Depression-era.…
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Let’s Talk About Data Centers Like Adults
This should be fun. Let’s talk about data centers. Like adults. It seems like whenever anyone talks about one – they’re picturing a warehouse full of chatbots. And sure, they do power those. But the data center streaming your Netflix or YouTube, backing up all those emails you haven’t opened, managing your bank account, streaming…