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Black Communities Across the US Refuse to Be Sacrifice Zones for Data Centers
From Texas to Virginia and everywhere in between, Black residents are confronting these projects in different ways.
Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival
“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South
The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.
Farage’s Visit to DC Underscores Alliance Between Far Right and Tech Titans
Silicon Valley is bankrolling the far right’s attacks on global democracy and getting anti-regulatory allies in return.
Organizers Are Demanding Palantir Drop Contracts With ICE and Israeli Military
Tech workers are also increasingly determined to hold their workplaces accountable for enabling the genocide in Gaza.
Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Water, But Tech Firms Don’t Say How Much
These facilities compete for water with existing communities and may deplete local groundwater aquifers.
AI Hype Is the Product and Everyone’s Buying It
AI’s flaws and dangers are glaring, yet the industry keeps growing, fueled by fantasies and fears of missing out.
Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control
These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism.
Airlines Are Using AI to Set Personalized, Jacked-Up Prices
Experts say multiple carriers using the same price-setting softwares could amount to “algorithmic collusion.”
Trump Is Setting the US Economy Up for Another Great Financial Crisis
Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.