The Pentagon and AI giants have a weakness. Both need China’s batteries, badly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/politics/china-battery-reliance-pentagon-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #batteries #china #us #ai #datacenters #tech #electricvehicles
https://prospect.org/2025/12/22/demands-for-data-center-moratoriums-surge/
Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.
#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor
#Starcloud has been in the news for training the first #AI model in #space, but now the Seattle-area startup's CEO is laying out a grander vision that involves gigawatts of space-based #power and billions of dollars. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/starcloud-power-training-ai-space/ #datacenters #orbit
I hope we can (re)gain your trust here.
I don't personally work on this stuff, but I'll try hard to answer any questions you have.
And other than that, I'll get back in my lane, and stick to web platform stuff.
- Jake ( @jaffathecake)
@firefoxwebdevs It's not only about trust. It's also the question how Firefox wants to be part of destroying our climate and water ressources in a time of #climateEmergency and growing #desertification thanks to #datacenters needed by the #AIHype!
Software that contributes to this destruction, even though it could work without it, is not an option for me. If it forces me to use such functions, I consider it even criminal. Firefox/the CEO wants AI.
Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
#HackerNews #Economics #Orbital #Terrestrial #DataCenters #SpaceTech
Igneo Infrastructure Partners and Orix are among those in the next round of bidding for Macquarie Capital’s majority stake in a Dutch hyperscale data center, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/13/orix-dutch-data-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ntt #orix #macquariecapital #igneoinfrastructurepartners #ai #datacenters
SoftBank Group is studying potential acquisitions including data-center operator Switch, in a search for deals that can help it ride the artificial intelligence-fueled boom in digital infrastructure, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/12/companies/softbank-data-center-operator-acquisition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #datacenters #acquisitions #investments #ai
A series of setbacks in Asia’s shift to cleaner energy is keeping coal in play in the top-consuming region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/12/10/energy/asia-high-coal-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #coal #environment #mining #utilities #batteries #renewables #artificialintelligence #datacenters #china #indonesia #india
"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security.” New data centers should be paused until new regulations are put in place.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667
@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut
#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work
Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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"AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.
Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?
On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no way" these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.
Couching that his napkin math was based on today's costs, "because anything in the future is speculative," Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.
"Okay, that's today's number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that's one company, that's $1.5 trillion of capex," he said.
Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877.html
"AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.
Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?
On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no way" these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.
Couching that his napkin math was based on today's costs, "because anything in the future is speculative," Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.
"Okay, that's today's number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that's one company, that's $1.5 trillion of capex," he said.
Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877.html
Datacenters in space aren't going to work
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
#HackerNews #Datacenters #in #space #going #to #work #space #tech #datacenter #challenges #future #technology #space #exploration
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi
#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Water is under threat in Oregon due to pollution levels, and massive data centers are in the crosshairs
A local commissioner uncovered extreme nitrate levels in Morrow County wells as the data center boom drives up consumption and pollution of the aquifer.
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115616138817977972
“Servers need to be kept between 21 and 27 degrees Celsius to function properly, and in Morrow County they are cooled with water drawn from the same aquifer used by local residents. That water is already loaded with nitrates; as it passes through the cooling systems, some of the liquid evaporates, but the compounds remain and become concentrated. The return water is then mixed with industrial wastewater in the giant lagoons at the Port of Morrow and sprayed onto fields as liquid fertilizer, even in winter when there are no crops to absorbit. The result, acording to hydrologists quoted by Rolling Stone, is an accelerated "washing" of nitrates into the subsoil: the more it is irrigated, the faster the aquifer is poisoned.”
«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667
@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut
#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work
Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research
Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi
#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange
Water is under threat in Oregon due to pollution levels, and massive data centers are in the crosshairs
A local commissioner uncovered extreme nitrate levels in Morrow County wells as the data center boom drives up consumption and pollution of the aquifer.
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115616138817977972
“Servers need to be kept between 21 and 27 degrees Celsius to function properly, and in Morrow County they are cooled with water drawn from the same aquifer used by local residents. That water is already loaded with nitrates; as it passes through the cooling systems, some of the liquid evaporates, but the compounds remain and become concentrated. The return water is then mixed with industrial wastewater in the giant lagoons at the Port of Morrow and sprayed onto fields as liquid fertilizer, even in winter when there are no crops to absorbit. The result, acording to hydrologists quoted by Rolling Stone, is an accelerated "washing" of nitrates into the subsoil: the more it is irrigated, the faster the aquifer is poisoned.”
In some areas, such as NYC, the surge has been dramatic—with residential shutoffs in Aug up 5X from a year ago, utility filings show.
In Pennsylvania…power shutoffs have risen 21% this year, with >270k households losing #electricity…. The avg electricity bill in the state…has risen 13% from 1 yr ago, as utilities upgrade grids to accommodate a burst of new #DataCenters, acc/to an analysis of federal data by #NEADA, which represents state directors of #energy aid programs for #LowIncome families.