Proud that our work on the Hidden Costs of AI received an honorable mention for the IRE Philip Meyer Award. This was a huge collaborative effort between Tech, Data and power reporters to uncover AI’s hidden impacts on communities worldwide. Congrats to all! ❤️‍🔥

*deep heavy sigh*

“Thousands of newcomers with little to no computing capacity today are hoping to claim a piece of the AI infrastructure gold rush.”

🚨NEW: AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers🚨 We analyzed thousands of data center operators. We found that newcomers are driving the AI gold rush - and it could have global economic consequences. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

To read our full story that details why this is happening, how communities are responding and what tech companies are doing to address their water footprint, here's a gift link to the story (lifts paywall for a week): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

When Trump announced a reception and dinner for the top holders of his meme coin, crypto traders began jockeying for an invite. It's virtually impossible to know who these people are so we dug into the data. Turns out: more than half of them are probably foreign. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Our latest #crypto story: How the #$TRUMP memecoin funnels mysterious foreign money to #POTUS and his family w/@Anthony Cormier and @Leonardo Nicoletti tinyurl.com/4jzkdxrn

(Bloomberg) - More than half of the top holders of President Donald Trump’s memecoin — who are jockeying for dinner with the president — have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting that many of the purchasers are based outside the US. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Wow. All but 6 of the top 25 Trump memecoin holders who registered for his contest bought their tokens on foreign crypto exchanges. This is the most corrupt grift in presidential history.

Trump’s contest to see who can bribe him the most through his meme coin is being dominated by foreign investors. There’s a reason why Trump fired the ethics watchdog overseeing the executive branch, and the team investigating crypto fraud. These are bribes, and this is corruption.

this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."

🚨NEW: Trump coin was no fair play🚨 We analyzed 5 million+ transactions, and found most people made ZERO profits... except for 21 whales that got in before everyone, and walked away with millions of dollars. Our latest investigation with @MuyaoShen ⤵️⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

🚨 WOW, @mikhailsirenko.bsky.social @trivikrama.bsky.social and I won the Michael Breheny Prize for cityaccessmap.com 🤯 We calculated accessibility for *any city in the world and revealed stark inequalities. journals.sagepub.com/page/epb/col... Lookout for a V2 of the app later this year 🚨

Steep increase in data centers to run AI threatens already stressed US power grids, likely causing power distortions to nearby homes. It's probably only going to get worse as improvements to grids can't keep up. By @leonardonclt.bsky.social @naurtorious.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨   @naurtorious.bsky.social Andre Tartar and I analyzed exclusive data from ~800K sensors and found a strong link between proximity to #AI #datacenters and higher levels of distorted power, which can damage home appliances and aging grids. tinyurl.com/AIDistortedP...

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse #news #worldnews

AI might threaten millions of jobs and make jobs that still exist much harder and undermine education and illegally scrape writing from authors and creators and worsen climate change and gobble up water supplies, sure, but at least it also might be fucking up the actual power supply to your house

AI data centers are multiplying across the United States and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of USians. #opcanary

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot. I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

AI data centers are multiplying across the US and sucking up huge amounts of power. An exclusive analysis shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

One more reminder that webglaze serves all its users on the equivalent power of 50% of a single outdated data center GPU. Or you can run glaze on a modern laptop and glaze an image in about 2 mins. Unlike AI companies busy training the latest models, you won’t disrupt any power grids. I promise.

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

Power to "AI" is actively damaging power transmission on the US grid. Not "might." Not "will." Right Now Is. I've been seeing increasing amounts of pushback against people talking about the environmental harms of "generative AI," comparing things like the resource use of factory farming in the US.…

Full of gratitude to receive The Michael Breheny Prize this year by Environment and Planning B: #Urban Analytics and #City Science. 🙏🏽 @leonardonclt.bsky.social did such an excellent job to convert this work into an accessible framework! Award: doi.org/10.1177/2399... Web: www.cityaccessmap.com

My latest: Sitters and Standers Interactive: pudding.cool/2024/11/sitt... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE_E...

NEW: We analyzed more than 53,000 posts over more than a decade sent by Elon Musk on X, and found that immigration and voter fraud has become — by far — his favorite and most popular policy topic online. bloom.bg/3UiUOJy

🚨NEW: Elon Musk Is Now X’s Biggest Promoter of Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies🚨 🎁bloom.bg/3UiUOJy We analyzed ~53K X posts from Elon Musk and found he's spreading debunked theories of undocumented voters swaying the US election, and growing his influence in the process.

🚨"Remigration": How a White Nationalist Threat Spread From Austria to the US🚨 @virtualnomad and I analyzed 3.1 million social posts and found that influencers used X to spread a radical idea + influence political narratives of major elections. 🎁 read here for free: shorturl.at/Fl0Pr

A White nationalist idea is putting xenophobia on the ballot, an analysis of 3.1 million social media posts shows

New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @davey.bsky.social and @leonardonclt.bsky.social gift link: bloom.bg/3It4cE4

JOURNALISTS KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK! Check out this amazing work from Dina Bass and @leonardonclt.bsky.social to get down into the deep details of what bias in text-to-image looks like. FUN WEBSITE TOO! https://bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/

An analysis of more than 5,000 images created with Stable Diffusion found that it takes racial and gender disparities to extremes — worse than those found in the real world. Here's what @leonardonclt.bsky.social and I found: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/?terminal=true

Seppia's first roadtrip, i think she likes it! 😎

✨Bluesky news✨ Bluesky said on Thursday it experienced its biggest single-day jump in users yet trib.al/CPNqmMB

A blue sky from Rome for my first post🌅

Incredible that sub-skeeting has not yet arrived — everyone full on dunks for everyone else to see, it’s quite glorious