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Once upon a time, you could've lived next to a data center and never known it. For decades, they quietly powered Netflix, cloud storage, and the internet itself, tucked away near cheap power and fiber connections. www.wired.com/story/how-da...

wired.comHow Data Centers Broke American PoliticsWhat the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

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Then came ChatGPT. Suddenly, tech companies said we needed data centers everywhere, and fast. The boom is now spreading to Europe: London recently approved one for Brick Lane, one of the city's busiest areas, despite being in drought. www.wired.com/story/how-da...

wired.comHow Data Centers Broke American PoliticsWhat the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

4/8/26, 11:48 am14 reposts72 likes

WIRED

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4 Aug

People asked questions. Opposition has surged across the US. WIRED's Senior Climate Writer Molly Taft says they've never seen anything like the anger toward data centers, or how resistance has united people from opposite ends of the political spectrum. www.wired.com/story/how-da...

wired.comHow Data Centers Broke American PoliticsWhat the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

twotenths.bsky.social

@twotenths.bsky.social

5 Aug

I wonder how big a factor in this is that the A.I. boffins have been in the headlines showing themselves to be condescending, un-humanitarian creeps?

Bone Daddy

@bklynmichael42.bsky.social

4 Aug

Funny how people always feel like they’re not being told the whole truth, and when they find out they’re not, in fact, being told the whole truth, and haven’t been for some time, they get pissy and start asking questions.