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The Bipartisan Rebellion Against Big Tech’s Water-Gulping, Power-Grid-Squeezing AI Factories - Beez Loop News (beezloop.com)
The Bipartisan Rebellion Against Big Tech’s Water-Gulping, Power-Grid-Squeezing AI Factories #water #Amazon #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #DataCenters beezloop.com/the-silicon-...
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Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
🔥👁️🗨️ ''Big Tech is key to Trump's pogroms. Without Oracle's databases, Microsoft's administrative tools, Amazon's cloud, and Google's location data, ICE would be frozen in place..'' pluralistic.net/2026/08/04/t...
On the campaign trail, data centers are the new American boogeyman (tomorrowsaffairs.com)
The data center pushback have taken so many politicians off guard because it’s an example of a rare phenomenon in modern American politics - By @jamesoliphant.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/on-the-campa...
Microsoft's AI Revenue Heavily Dependent on OpenAI, New Filing Reveals — BigGo Finance (finance.biggo.com)
A Microsoft filing revealed OpenAI generated $24.1 billion of Microsoft's AI revenue this fiscal year, about 70% of the total, even as Nadella keeps talking up diversification into Anthropic and in-house models. #Microsoft #OpenAI #AI #TechNews #BigTech finance.biggo.com/news/0fd2573...
SEC Exempts Data-Center Bonds From Key Securitization Rules (bloomberg.com)
The #SEC has made it easier for #DataCenter owners to sell asset-backed securities, potentially opening the door for even more debt sales as #BigTech scours #WallStreet for ways to pay for #AI. ‘Data-center securitizations don’t need disclosures + investor protections that similar deals require.’ 1/
Bernie Sanders asked the leading AI CEOs to pause development. Read his letter. (flip.it)
. @sanders.senate.gov “wrote a letter to three leading #AI development CEOs: Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, & Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. He called for the leaders to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control.’" Good luck Bernie! #capitalism #BigTech flip.it/Mo0r5e
Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley (lithub.com)
Books about Big Tech and the future of society.
Meta's AI Manifesto Promises a Utopia — But Who Really Benefits? (fxcrypto24.com)
Meta's AI Manifesto Promises a Utopia — But Who Really Benefits? Meta's new manifesto, "The Future is for Everyone," promises democratized AI and personal superintelligence agents — but critics argue the vision masks a famili…