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Politicians Who Once Championed Data Centers Are Now Bashing Them (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-21 | tags: greg abbott, josh shapiro, data centers

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GitHub says commits have doubled in the last four months (engadget.com)

2026-08-20 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: github, commits, data center

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Republicans Turn to Elon Musk and AI Super PACs for a Bailout Ahead of Midterms (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: elon musk, ai super pacs, midterms

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OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: liquid death, data centers, water cooling

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Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers (slashdot.org)

2026-08-20 | tags: voters, data centers, november

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Mark buys a castle (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, strancally castle

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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Vlad Fedorov | tags: github outage, github actions, github copilot

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Can AI solve the energy problem it created? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: data centers, energy problem, america

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AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by Ashley Capoot Garrett Downs | tags: openai, liquid death, garage beer

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SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: spacex, starlink, satellite megaconstellation

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The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-20 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: hydrogen, polycrisis, spacex

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Hyperscalers’ Off-Grid Power Push Comes With Risks (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-20 | tags: hyperscalers, off-grid power, data centers

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Digital Immortality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: huggingface, large language models, ai labs

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Gen Z are AI skeptics—and this is the tech CEO they trust the least (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: gen z, ai industry, data centers

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AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-19 | by Sarah Perez | tags: data centers, pew research, wall street journal

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Are underwater data centers sustainable for AI infrastructure? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: underwater data centers, artificial intelligence, ocean

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T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-19 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: t-mobile, salt typhoon, cybersecurity

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Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: sakura internet, japan government cloud, data center

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Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region (cnbc.com)

2026-08-19 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: nvidia, nordics, ai chips

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AI’s water problems run deep (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: data centers, u.s. electricity, water footprint

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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water' (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: liquid death, garage beer, jason kelce

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I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: hyperscale data centers, new york, meta

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The data center backlash is sending AI infrastructure to some unexpected places (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: data centers, americans, protests

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Inside Big Tech’s Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-19 | tags: big tech, data centers, listening sessions

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Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: air temperature, centers, data centers

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Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: data centers, phoenix, temperature increase

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AI data center boom pushes Caterpillar, Ford, and other US firms into new businesses (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: caterpillar, ai data centers, nvidia verarubin

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These Two Self-Described ‘Country Hicks’ Just Turned Down $26 Million to Build a Data Center on Their Land (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jon Small | tags: meta, data center, kentucky

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Planned US Data Centers Set to Produce 24M Cars’ Worth Of Carbon Dioxide (cnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Antuan Goodwin | tags: amazon, google, microsoft

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Spirit Airlines Is Dead, but Its Data Will Haunt Google’s Servers for Generations to Come (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: spirit airlines, google, data center