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This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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The tech workers are organizing!
This is now the biggest tech union in the country, and they are fighting for democratic control over how AI is used in their workplaces.
Read our piece here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-bigges...
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
When OpenAI & Anthropic go public, thousands of newly minted millionaires will flood the SF housing market.
JJ Lansing warns that “working-class residents, already struggling with exponential rent increases, will find themselves repeatedly outbid or evicted.”
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Joseph Cox
University of Chicago entered into a partnership with Anthropic "to provide Claude Enterprise for all academics and staff."
The financial details are still unclear.
Read @alexshultz.bsky.social's analysis: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/decipherin...
According to tech founder-turned-hospitality entrepreneur Ben Lee, billionaires have "1% of the worst nervous systems we have seen."
He's offering a "regulation retreat" to fix that.
Read the full interview by @aristeinhorn.bsky.social: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-blown-...
Monterey Park has become the first city in California to ban data centers. https://ow.ly/nxIf50Z9sRZ
With about 70% of Americans opposing the construction of data centers near them, it likely won’t be the last. https://ow.ly/oV8R50Z9sRW
San Francisco and its residents will be the first to find out what a culture and economy defined by AI investment looks like. They won't be the last.
Tomorrow's I.P.O. of SpaceX could turn out to be the universe's largest Ponzi scheme, and you and I are paying part of the price whether we like it or not. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-galactic-ripoff
Meta going around the building trades, when datacenter builds have been a boon for union jobs. The union builders are perhaps the only faction that’s ok with these datacenters. Now big AI is cutting them out. Wonder how this will end for them.
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scoop: a former Meta employee who lost their job in the company’s recent layoffs was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, sources tell WIRED. It’s unclear whether they remain in custody.
w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
Robert Reich
Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to reverse course. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to
After tabling a proposal for a massive data center in December, Monterey Park leaders will let voters decide the future of similar facilities in the city.
