Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools To 'Conserve Electricity' - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in ...
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I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers
It’s probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It’s about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities where they’re built, many of which are wrong.
Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study -- conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks lo...
The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon (WC Archive)
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Exclusive: Americans Now Overwhelmingly Oppose New Data Centers Near Them
A new Heatmap Pro poll shows a rapid shift in public opinion since last fall.
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
Vérité sur l’empreinte environnementale de l’IA : l’ultimatum de l’ONU
L'ONU somme les géants de l'IA de révéler leur véritable empreinte carbone, hydrique et foncière, alors que les data centers pourraient engloutir 945 TWh...
Dark Cloud Gathers as Bill Comes Due for AI Industry
AI companies are finding they can no longer sustain footing the bill of their heavily vibe coding customers.
Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning
From an environmental standpoint, there are a few crucial aspects of training a neural network that have a major impact on the quantity of carbon that it emits. These factors include: the location of the server used for training and the energy grid that it uses, the length of the training procedure, and even the make and model of hardware on which the training takes place. In order to approximate these emissions, we present our Machine Learning Emissions Calculator, a tool for our community to better understand the environmental impact of training ML models. We accompany this tool with an explanation of the factors cited above, as well as concrete actions that individual practitioners and organizations can take to mitigate their carbon emissions.
Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc
EDISON BROWSER
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Gathering the Custodians of the Internet: Lessons from the First CivilServant Summit - Citizens and Technology Lab
An agenda for citizen behavioral science to maintain and protect the communities we love online.
Digital Topology & Economic Power
The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.
City of LA Capital Projects Dashboard
Monitor LA infrastructure projects including wastewater, transportation, municipal facilities, and more.
