Posts tagged "data-centers"
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Friday Roundup #20: The Footprint
The week the AI boom's receipts came due and read backward — a savings program that cost 300,000 jobs, data-center job math that sounds like a joke, incomprehensible pollution, and a surveillance grid arresting the wrong people — all of it a physical weight pressed into the grid, the air, the payroll, and the yard.
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Virginia's Data Center Bill Is Coming Due
Virginia's data-center fight has moved from zoning hearings to utility bills, tax policy, and state capacity. The rules need to be written before the next deal arrives.
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Friday Roundup #10: The Machine Enters the Room
Anthropic became a Washington problem, Musk v. Altman became the AI industry's public deposition, backlash got institutional teeth, data centers became land-use politics, and Hormuz entered the grocery bill.