"New training algorithms show up almost daily that promise to use less memory and less compute and have AI models learn 10 times as fast. This is the natural evolution of technology, not price increases." #AIBubble

"If we had a legal regime that forced actual market signals in AI to function, then we would have asked questions about real value [of AI] years earlier, before sinking trillions into data centers."

IEA World Investment Report: as a result of the tech industry's AI-driven push to build new gas power plants, the US is now investing more in fossil power than China. @carbonbrief.org

RBN: EIA understates rising demand for fossil gas from 6.5GW from data center projects in OH, PA, and WV. If built, these projects would increase NE gas demand by 1,000 million cubic feet/day by 2029, dwarfing EIA's projected 230-MMcf/d increase.

Fossil gas projects make up 72% of the proposed additions in MISO’s expedited queue released last week, with much of the demand coming data centers in Entergy’s and NIPSCO’s service areas. If built, this means we're saddled 20.3 GW of new gas infrastructure and its GHGs for another generation.

Despite a partisan split in opinion on #climatechange, most Americans say we are not doing enough (60%) and support international climate efforts (73%!)

Understanding Trump's deportation policy requires facing up to the reality that the white supremacism is alive and well despite Bovino's departure. Hopefully Bovino's open embrace of Naziism can be used to keep this issue alive.

The SEC today began the process of rescinding the climate risk disclosure rule promulgated in 2024 with broad support from investors. A core mission of the SEC is investor protection, but the Atkins-led version prioritizes loyalty to the Trump/ fossil fuel industry's climate denial script.

It appears the rollout Kevin O'Leary's Stratos data center project is not sitting well with Utah residents, who question why they should accept the massive air pollution & depletion of their fragile water supply. Gov. Cox now says the proposed 9GW of gas-fired power will be a mix of power sources.

The SpaceX IPO truly captures today's AI insanity. AI is a "cash incinerator," w losses of $6.4B on $3.2B of revenue last year. The stratospheric valuation of the enterprise applications market, $22.7T, is based on research from the Digital Cooperation Org, which virtually no one has ever heard of.

Could the data center boom be "complicated" by enterprise customers unwilling to pay the tab? And if so, what will happen to the hundreds of GWs of gas plants under construction & in various planning stages? [gift link]

Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"He added that the forgone tax revenue could have been used to fully fund Ohio’s fair school funding formula or provide property tax relief."

"No surprise then that billionaires were easy marks for AI hustlers, who promised the possibility of a world without people, where an army of "agents" could do the jobs that presently demand the contributions of unreasonable human beings who refuse to acknowledge that your priorities trump theirs."

The lesson here is that "decarbonization" is the best defense.

Over the past decade: a doubling in wind energy production, a 7X increase in solar energy production and a 77X increase in battery storage power output capacity.

Not following the logic here. Is he saying that Elon entered the country illegally?

@garymarcus.bsky.social on how Big Tech shifts the risks of its AI insanity: thanks to the SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs, "index funds, the staple of many people’s retirement funds, are going to be more or less forced to rapidly absorb these exercises in fantastical thinking."

Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

Investors & other smart folks outside the independent AI research field: LLMs are the future, will soon replace everyone's jobs. Independent AI researchers: they're wrong about 50% of the time. Most believe the “factuality” problem won't be solved anytime soon.

More evidence that the Trump regime hopes to use police-state tactics to counter the fast-growing movement against data centers & other tech industry abuses: calling free speech an "emerging extremism threat." NAACP LDF's Reynolds: beware of strong opinions being treated as precursors to violence.

Pretty good summary of why people are so pissed off about data centers, the physical representations of the technology companies keep saying is going to take everyone’s jobs away

Economic populism is the issue that unites Democratic voters. "Overall, 88 percent of the Democratic coalition said the economic system was generally unfair to most Americans. A similarly large 83 percent said the political and economic system in America needs at least 'major changes.'"

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Yesterday I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted.

The hyperscalers have made head nods in favor of grid utilization policy, but it's instructive that in CA they “haven’t been super active.” Wealthiest industry ever seen but.. can't find the resources to take this on? Somehow they're finding resources to pave the way for fossil gas buildout.

Investment in US clean energy production increased significantly over the last year, but Q1 2026 is 9% lower than Q1 2025. Early signs of the damage from Trump's blockages of wind energy.

Having seen, smelled and heard the pollution in-person, we an assure you it's not hard to tell these things should be nowhere near where people live.

SpaceX IPO: Elon recently committed to spending $2.8B to buy more portable gas turbines for xAI's data centers. These turbines emit enormous amounts of air pollution but, just to highlight his disdain for the Black community where his projects are sited, Elon has deployed them with no permits.

Ed Ballard: Tackling climate disruption requires "permanently" destroying fossil fuel demand, so don't overplay temporary blips, focus instead on the significant cap-ex needed to make this happen. Agree, and I'd add: these investments have enormous ROI, make sense even in tight fiscal moments.

Repubs, suddenly aware their constituents hate data centers, agree to Dems "sweeping" provision telling DOE to "identify and mitigate data centers’ potential impacts on energy and water consumption, grid reliability, transmission and distribution, and ratepayers."

This a tough time for DC, and we're not even halfway thru the second Trump regime's pillaging and defacing. So let's take a moment to celebrate one of the things that makes DC a great place to live and visit: our green spaces. Best big-city park system, according to @trustforpublicland.bsky.social.

If you're a VA resident worried about more utility bill increases due to the data center boom, the proposed acquisition of Dominion by NextEra is bad news. As @energyandpolicy.org explains, NextEra has a sordid history of gaining outsized profits via rate increases & regulatory capture.

"Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas." More evidence: low cost wins in power generation. Gas is expensive and getting more expensive.

Latest evidence that the Trump regime knows it's losing badly on data centers: here's Interior Sec'y Burgum on Elon's hellsite telling Breitbart that data center opposition is driven by "foreign influence campaigns."

New study finds data center demand could drive up C02 emissions in the next 3-1/2 years and increase utility bills up to 57% by 2030, with a national average increase of 6%-29%.

Texas has more wind projects in operation than any other state and 17 military bases with flight facilities. No problem - except we now have a thoroughly politicized DOD that thinks it's ok to invent a fake national security problem.

In this most consequential election year of our lifetimes, we need more discussion of this illegal federal takeover of our cities. Anti-authoritarian protesters have already shown themselves to be non-violent, but these troops are following Trump, not the Constitution, so they are at serious risk.

There may be hope for humanity yet.

Hundreds of additional heavily-armed federal agents will be deployed in DC ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration. Having watched these people walk around aimlessly for the past year, I can assure you this is not about public safety. #freedc

Mayoral candidate @janeese4dc.bsky.social has the support of DC's labor unions & her leading opponent certainly does not. The realtors' association must inform you of this... because it was found to be distributing door hangers inaccurately stating that their guy is the labor-supported candidate.

Venture capitalists Andreesen & Horowitz are the biggest donors so far in this political cycle, which means a blizzard of pro-crypto & pro-AI attack ads. Considering the unpopularity of Trump & AI data centers, will this be the cycle in which candidates fight back and win?

The Next Era- Dominion merger announcement expected this week, with a value of ~$400B, would be one of the biggest transactions of all time. Approvals needed: DOJ, FERC & state energy regulators. A key moment to challenge growing corporate concentration & the fossil power buildout for data centers.

MD OPC's Lapp: PJM shouldnt pretend there's a generic supply-demand imbalance. Non-data center growth is “negative to flat over the next ten years.” Don't allow data centers into markets without mapping every cost generated by data centers & preventing leakage into the bills of ordinary households.

The data center industry's lack of transparency has made it difficult to get timely reviews of environmental, cost & other impacts. Here's a new toolkit showing tools that states, local governments, and communities can use to stay informed of upcoming projects and their impacts.

If you're not already pissed about data centers, check out these latest figures on how Big Tech is forcing struggling ratepayers in PJM to cover its costs: in the last two PJM capacity auctions, it increased customers’ bills by $13.8B. More increases are coming unless policy changes.

NEW REPORT reveals how the US insurance crisis: 🔧Hampers the development & viability of affordable housing supply ⚡Gives insurance companies de facto permitting authority 🏚️ Leads to deferred building upgrades & green retrofits, making life worse for tenants climateandcommunity.org/research/ins...

The hyperscalers are "comically codependent" with customers Anthropic & OpenAI: 34% of Q1 2026 income came from investments in them; 60% of Alphabet's & Amazon's income came from them. These circular investments were the only way to get unprofitable companies to sign massive cloud competing deals.

NEW in @350.org: Fossil fuel pollution, which insurers continue to support through their underwriting and investment practices, is supercharging the extreme weather that is driving up home insurance prices.

The Trump regime doesn't just want to make energy unaffordable with war-mongering and increasing fossil fuel dependency, it wants to stop efforts to help the most vulnerable households with the increasing burdens. These folks are "DEI" so apparently they don't matter.

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source.