Anna Bacciarelli

AI research at @hrw & REAL ML 🤖 Ex @opensociety @amnestytech 🤖 🤖 DM for signal

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.

What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.

This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.

Read more here: https://t.co/36D0k5QD0R

@TBIJ

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Companies like Amazon build business models around denying workers their rights and make our streets less safe.

It's time for that to change.

Let's pass the Delivery Protection Act.

[Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf]

Only an AI company can announce what is ultimately a basic set of controls that should have been implemented years ago, and be praised by people who have never worked on complex systems as if this was groundbreaking technology.

[Bloomberg @business]

Norway will suspend further reservation of electricity connections for data centers while the country figures out how to handle the burden they place on the the grid https://t.co/eo6zsxfDne

[Anna Bacciarelli @a_bacci]

London air quality has been horrendous this past week 😷 smog + fireworks + bonfires = asthma overload

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

I’m triggering a high air pollution alert for London on Tuesday 10 November.

I urge everyone in the capital, especially those most vulnerable, to stay safe and follow health advice to minimise their exposure.

Please switch off engines when idling and avoid burning garden waste, which contributes to pollution.

https://t.co/waVUBk0Qro

[Clean Air in London @CleanAirLondon]

CODE RED: Widespread EXTREME AIR POLLUTION across UK on Sun 8 Nov 2026. Official: UK does not issue AIR QUALITY WARNINGS. So people have blasted fireworks into the fog for days to create a deadly smog full of toxic metals, smoke and other particles. Will @andyburnham insist on warnings now that @SciTechgovuk @DHSCgovuk has revealed the truth? HT @BarryGardiner

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress,

You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So:

- Subpoena Google for cramming AI down our kids throats. Threaten to amend the FAR to prohibit contracting across the U.S. government with any company forcing kids to use AI.

- Subpoena the private equity managers enshittifying hospitals, dialysis centers, your local vet, your local primary care provider. Name individuals, not just companies. Shame them. Show the public (and public pension funds) how they make their money.

- Subpoena health insurers who use AI to auto-deny valid claims, triage mental health emergencies, or upcode diagnoses. Make them stop that.

- Subpoena the airlines for systematically denying cash refunds to travelers. (“Here’s a voucher instead!”) Show your hand – threaten the subpoena now, before Thanksgiving.

- Subpoena Brazilian meatpacker JBS for literally anything. For child labor, for getting fat and rich off of cattlemen, for making their workers work so fast their hands curl into claws, for persistent hygiene allegations.

- Subpoena corporate landlords. Show the public how they get rich off of hidden fees and not fixing their apartments.

- Subpoena any company that has been slow to issue tariff refunds to small business owners. I bet they’ll get their checks a lot quicker!

Will it work? See what happened when Instacart was exposed as secretly marking up your grocery cart... Yes, it can work.

P.S. If anyone tells you “No, you can’t do that” or “No, there’s a process for that,” ignore them. You know what time it is.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

Tuesday's election results will have sweeping impacts on America's data center boom.

Our team at Cleanview analyzed the data and found that newly elected governors could pause 41% of America’s planned data centers.

Here are some more takeaways from last night's results:

On Tuesday, voters elected governors and passed local measures that will change the course of the AI infrastructure boom. But much of the early coverage has been misleading or wrong.

Tuesday’s results don’t signal the end of the data center boom. They will, however, likely bring a pause in some of the largest markets and new regulations across the country—even in traditionally laissez-faire states like Texas.

159 GW of planned data centers are in states where the new governor backs a pause. That's 41% of the country's planned data center pipeline.

Another 69.2 GW (18%) is in states where the winner wants to change tax breaks or other rules but hasn’t backed a pause.

This week’s elections will also impact the power projects that data centers depend on, likely bringing more clean energy in some states and fewer on-site gas plants in others.

On-site gas plants will likely face new rules and delays. To build an on-site gas plant, a developer needs an air permit. That approval often goes through offices controlled by the executive branch, which means new Democratic governors could delay or block those permits.

Developers may need to buy more clean energy. A number of candidates campaigned on a promise to make data centers buy more clean energy.

David Crowley in Wisconsin called for 100% renewable energy as a condition for communities that accept a project. Haaland’s plan calls for self-built renewables. Michigan Democrats have proposed a bill requiring 90% clean procurement.

Another takeaway from last night: Local elections went overwhelmingly against data centers.

Data centers were directly on the ballot in 41 local elections across the country. Some ballot initiatives proposed outright bans, while others proposed temporary pauses. All of the races that have been called went against data centers.

Many questions remain about how many newly elected officials will follow through with their pauses, how long they'll last, which projects will be affected, and what new guardrails would look like.

We're planning to continue to cover this over the coming months. If you're interested in reading our analysis subscribe to the Cleanview newsletter or follow along here.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

The election is a rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview, of tech oligarchy, of AI-powered inequality and replacement of human labor, of Musk, of kleptocracy

It's a rejection of the culture war, the scam economy, AI, the surveillance state. All of it

https://t.co/d91RZOGcpf

[WIRED @WIRED]

Almost a quarter of all voters told NBC News that data centers were “crucial” to their vote, while nearly two-thirds said it was either a major or minor factor. https://t.co/w7FOwmmJuH

[Axios @axios]

"What we just witnessed was an AI earthquake": Voters revolt against tech at polls https://t.co/zmlCzvzjYl

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

We at @heatmap_news published an early look at how dreadful the night was for the data center industry.

Some examples in here I haven’t seen covered elsewhere. Highly recommend you read & share 🗳️

https://t.co/A6c7Jl15xl

[Anna Bacciarelli @a_bacci]

Oh look, public pressure works. Frameworks are nice and all but we need binding regulation on tech infrastructure to be upheld, enforced, and not subject to bs national security exemptions.

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

crazy wild scoop from @RachelFrazin amidst election night news: big tech (microsoft, google, amazon) and major environmental nonprofits (sierra club, lcv, nrdc) are apparently in talks for a framework on responsible data center development

https://t.co/lEe4FQ9KcU

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

On Election Day, 44 various data center moratoriums were on the ballot across America. 43 passed.

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

Google DeepMind researchers say their contracts are preventing them from participating in the public conversation about AI safety https://t.co/N1Kgoa2cik

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

They are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing.

[Brad Carson @bradrcarson]

So the 41 datacenter moratoria across the country are, I predict, going to go 41-0. In nearly every case it's about 67-80% opposing datacenters. True in California, Ohio, everywhere. Read all the results here:
https://t.co/JujgCAXAoM

[J.D. Capelouto @jdcapelouto]

👨‍💻 THREAD on how data center-related ballot measures are faring tonight

data centers are on the ballot in ~40 localities across 13 states, including proposed bans, votes on specific projects, and recalls of pro-data center politicians

[Anna Bacciarelli @a_bacci]

As would balloting on AI infrastructure!

[J.D. Capelouto @jdcapelouto]

👨‍💻 THREAD on how data center-related ballot measures are faring tonight

data centers are on the ballot in ~40 localities across 13 states, including proposed bans, votes on specific projects, and recalls of pro-data center politicians

[Anna Bacciarelli @a_bacci]

Tech as a key election issue is unsurprising given that most people haven’t been consulted on massive AI-driven changes to their jobs, schools, neighbourhoods. Discontent is only going to grow with more corporate power consolidation and continued lack of democratic participation.

[Anna Bacciarelli @a_bacci]

Exit poll questions on AI and data centres would have been niche AF a couple of years ago https://t.co/a0qpCZqX28