THE WEBSITE HAS A REAL MAP ON IT WHY GENERATE THIS IMAGE USING AI I'M LOSING MY MIND

These electric school buses are getting a summer job: Making sure cleaner, cheaper power is used even when grid demand is high. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-charging/massachusetts-evs-feeding-grid

Mayor Scott Furgeson was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lot of these all over town, but I only see them in shitty houses,” before adding, “most of them are rentals.”

Put wind or solar on the land that grows ethanol corn. Run electric vehicles off the power. Use 99% less land per mile driven, at far lower cost. Let farmers use the freed-up land to do actual farmer stuff, like growing real food for humans and being good custodians of land for future generations.

X is a bubble

My recent report into big tech's greenwashing tactics got cited in this nice presentation from folks at SINTEF Gonna be updating all these as the new annual reports come out over the next few weeks, of course!! erikjohannes.no/slides/talk-...

Oh my god. Of course it's Nscale. Australian former fossil fuel / Bitcoin guys building a house of cards from absurd promises and fake pitch decks, including this megaproject here in Norway Naturally: using Bitcoin lines like 'stranded renewable energy'. I'm so mad about this!! archive.ph/VqXLq

Fossil-fuelled AI slop like this does nothing but instil false confidence, complacency and more than anything it hurts our cause because we're meant to be the honest ones, not the ones who pump out automated lies based on stolen data 11GW is the theoretical max and it hasn't been built "overnight"

The vast majority of Americans support a moratorium on data centres ->

The 2026 FIFA World Cup was recently coined ‘the most polluting World Cup’ due to its sheer geographic footprint. This year’s event stretches across 16 cities in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Get data on each host city’s annual emissions impacts at climatetrace.org/explore.

Eryk is making important points but this graphic is just unimaginably funny

my brother’s cat isn’t mad at you, just disappointed

It was fascinating listening to this @edzitron.com / Cal Newport ep because so much of what they're talking about RE doom-laden fatalist AI reporting is very very reflective of fossil fuels / climate reporting www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVi...

Lots to like in this essay but I didn't like how fatalist / defeatist it was. + also an example of where someone can somehow detect the failings of genAI in their own field but are pretty credulous for other fields How can you not be a hater? Wild www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

the populist uprising against data centers in one chart (via @heatmap.news)

where do I get these stickers!!!!!!!

Random actually-useful-machine-learning example: Microsoft Clipchamp (lol!) uses an on-device model and your computer's resources to transcribe captions. No skeezy upload into the mysterious privacy-leaking cloud so it can run on a coal plant somewhere

‘Oh no, our software is so powerful it’s going to take over the world! Oh stop us, we’re too powerful, our products are so much smarter than humans oh what shall we do? The world is in so much danger!’ ‘Please contact our sales team to learn more.’

Meta, once again, tells us all to get f**ked. AI is evil. techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/m...

Genuine question: why has Red Bridge/Accent Research & media been so quiet about these findings in their April 2026 poll?? Or have I just missed it cos of channels I'm not attuned to?

Far out, WA reminds me of Dune. Anyway, our latest Honest Government Ad is out: Visit the Kimberley!

The WA government made a tourism ad for the Kimberley, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! 👉 Write to Environment Minister Murray Watt 🥧 www.environskimberley.org.au/minister_watt

Hi, just because a software tells you it’s “reasoning” or “thinking” doesn’t mean it actually is. You won’t believe this but programmers can make software lie about what it does. Maybe programmers need more guardrails.

My climate philosophy

"Contrary to the prevailing narrative in the West, China’s abundant energy resources and rapid data-center construction have not translated into dramatically lower electricity costs for AI firms"

It is just SO deeply depressing how easy it is for companies selling fossil-fuelled software slop to get media outlets to do free marketing and PR for them.

Bluesky loves fake AI climate sloplutions so much ❤️💖🥰

"I just have alarm bells going off in my head," says former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffer @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social. Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Data centre pauses are rational, evidence-based responses to the frantic, emotion-driven impatience behind the current mode of development. They are the reasonable middle position. (Australia still seems to be a bit behind on this......) www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

The first thing that strikes me about the Anthropic essay is that its description of research doesn't really sound like research as I think of it. It sounds like a set of quite narrowly defined problems compared with the originality required for genuine insight. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

Leading my newsletter The Fight today: New @heatmap.news polling finds a clear majority of registered voters — 61% — support a national AI data center moratorium. This is bipartisan: more than half of both Democrats and Republicans support the idea when asked.

It is really fascinating to see how generally conflicted and confused the YIMBY / abundance reaction to the data centre backlash is. Generally much of it centres around trying to deal with the possibility that sometimes something isn't worth building and is worth opposing. Not a welcome though

this SpaceX IPO has to be creating an all-time market for Manhattan-based cocaine dealers www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

Absolutely unbelievable story - Meta is building fossil-fuelled data centres inside **huge tents**?? An absolutely perfect demonstration of the desperation, impatience and thoughtlessness of this fossil-fuel hungry energy waste boom.

I cannot stop getting mad at the absurd spectacle of people doing AI-generated anti-AI stuff. It isn't cute or clever, it's just a glaring public signal of your own laziness. Stop it, it sucks so so so much.

Fun fact: Norway's latest carbon capture greenwashing project is called 'longship', specifically after the viking ship used in all the pillaging and killing the vikings did ccsnorway.com/the-project/

This isn't a new technology. It's old now. All the extra fossil fuel plants they're speed-building to run new capacity isn't making the product any less awful. This is it folks.

Please do not to do free volunteer PR and marketing for Anthropic

"AI firm raises alarm that their AI is too good" has been a recurring marketing tactic everyone needs to be aware of and second-guess. Something similar happened with Clause mythos being "too good" at discovering security vulnerabilities, which is why top vendors got exclusive access for a month.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Trump-wannabe Kevin O'Leary's monstrous data centre next to Utah's already badly mismanaged Great Salt Lake gets worse the more I hear about it. Luckily we don't have any governments tripping on their own willies in the race to bring projects operating at the same scale here!

Again: this is marketing slop from Anthropic so they can justify doing deals to actually seriously harm people using fossil fuel plants for data centres. Do not let them do this performance. They are lying so they can sell more fossil-fuelled software subscriptions.

I have a genAI non-use statement on my site+ make point of making this clear for new clients I cannot state strongly enough how much this benefits me in finding work, and specifically finding GOOD work All the best outlets love it, and all the worst outlets hate it www.cityam.com/there-should...

I've been reading through the comments on some of @greenpeaceap.bsky.social's popular posts from our recent report and they're v v interesting. Surveillance / data privacy is such a huge part of why people are concerned here, it's like every third comment at least www.instagram.com/p/DY02uqBmJqE/

Scientists, engineers, activists and academics have been trying to solve climate change for decades, and no one thought of this solution???? Problem SOLVED people, let's pack it UP

turning a big dial that says 'racism' etc etc

These fuckin ghouls🤬 "Joyce told Sky News on Thursday that his party wanted to force permanent residents to sell their homes – before clarifying with colleagues" “on further investigation & discussions with One Nation, no, we are not going to be kicking permanent residents out of their house."

India, holy hell