Your mom’s ecological takes (He/Him)

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[Your mom’s ecological takes (He/Him) @kaLauntra]

Monday!! Also a great opportunity to say that I joined in Oct these brilliant and thoughtful folks at CCI as their Energy and Industrial Policy Manager!!! I’ve been using CCI’s work as my intellectual North Star for the last years, and

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

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[Mooski @mooskina]

spoiler alert I got fired for the funniest reason ever

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

as a journalist i would love to know examples where a community in the u.s. actually embraced a data center buildout & loved it so much. earnestly

[Stanford Medicine @StanfordMed]

Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that shows potential to protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.
https://t.co/ypukWUmJKv

[nature @Nature]

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus

https://t.co/OgfUZ00Hd4

[Keith Goldberg @kdgscribe]

@mollytaft Lawyers who work on data center development told me a few months ago that a gray market has developed for turbines and other equipment, along with short-term rentals. https://t.co/XBkVyKjRAz

[Your mom’s ecological takes (He/Him) @kaLauntra]

@petersterne I think it’s coz of his (actually too moderate) AI platform that attracted so much big tech money

[Bryce Greene @TheGreeneBJ]

Thinking about how there must be at least a few data centers projects that were started with land acknowledgements

[whatever man @_vectorist]

A better precedent than you know: before pervasive regulation, electric companies fomented populist anger. Ed Dunne became Chicago mayor in 1905 promising a public power takeover. FDR fought the Insull Trust. The trusts accepted PUCs, fearing socialism would come if they didn’t.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

"The right question should be how many data centers should we have collectively, and what purposes they serve." https://t.co/j0Ayo5jvFz

[Your mom’s ecological takes (He/Him) @kaLauntra]

@BigMeanInternet https://t.co/1sgq1XzhlI curious what u think here

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

The second group wants to withhold a social license to build from the tech industry until they can demonstrate the potential benefits to the public as such outweigh the dramatic costs to society, recognizing past mistakes re: the commercial internet and social media.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

These and other disparities illustrate that local governments have a lot of power to protect their residents from data center impacts -- but many don't use this power because so many politicians are beholden to Big Tech.

[Club des Cordeliers @cordeliers]

Alternatively, the grid might be entirely federalized, creating an illusion of public control that would satisfy the pwogwessives but dispensing with meaningful oversight, local input and democratic participation.

[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

I cannot see why they'd be worried abt another pandemic lol. I just can't. We have no solidarity or political awareness around this issue. Whoever talks about it gets "covidtelpro" shouted at them endlessly. Idk if hantavirus will be the next pandemic, but idk why they'd stop it.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

But the plan "worker leverage over production ➡️ socialist politics" has a ton of issues in the middle there and not a lot of successful American models. Gonna need more steps.

[Derek Seidman @derekseidman80]

The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI.

For @truthout.
https://t.co/FPjAtNZcZl

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The AI build-out depends on gas turbines and power transformers made by a handful of workers at a handful of plants in the US South.

That bottleneck is a vulnerability — and a rare opportunity for labor to exercise real power over the tech giants. https://t.co/w71gykkvBC

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Data centers as “speculative private infrastructure” is the most precise description I’ve read and I will be stealing this phrase