Data Centers - Database

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.

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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.

The Mud Lobster Data Center

Making the most of what you have

Are We Decentralized Yet?

Statistics on how concentrated user accounts and data are across the Fediverse, the Atmosphere, web hosting, email, and other Internet infrastructure.

Atmospheric Computing

Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.

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.

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.

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...

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...

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

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.

airspace

The database you already have.

European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Cirrus

The lightest PDS in the Atmosphere. A single-user AT Protocol Personal Data Server that runs on a Cloudflare Worker.

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.