Tag: xAI
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The world’s largest supercomputer is in our backyard. It’s time to ask what it’s doing for the people next door.
The world’s largest supercomputer sits in Memphis’ backyard. While 30,000 Memphians still don’t have internet access. I’ve written plenty about the baggage of the xAI data centers, and I’m not taking any of it back. The gas turbines went in without permits. The air got worse. The water and the power grid are carrying the…
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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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Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. You helped pay for it.
I thought everyone knew this – but I guess it bears repeating since I’ve seen so many posts defending Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. CNN looked at how Musk got there, and the truth is Tesla and SpaceX don’t exist in the form they do today without government help. Our tax dollars ended up saving…
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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…