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“Circular” Financing in AI & Big Tech

We know about the old-school “Old Boys’ Club,” but that club is largely now the Big Tech Boys’ Club. Tech nerds created products that scaled super fast with relatively minimal capital expenditures and became billionaires. Once you have a billion dollars, you have to be really dumb and bad with … [continued]

New Data Center Rate Structure Risks Wisconsinites Picking Up The Bill For Big Tech

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) is considering a new rate structure on data centers that favors profits and protections for Big Tech companies and We Energies, putting Wisconsinites at risk to subsidize the infrastructure costs needed for these billion-dollar companies to run their data centers. We Energies is … [continued]

Full Page Open Letter Calls on Amazon, Google, Meta, & Microsoft to Stop Fueling Climate…

INDIANAPOLIS – A full page open letter in the Sunday papers of the Indianapolis Star calls on the country’s largest technology company CEOs — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella — to power their data centers with clean energy, or risk failing to meet their own … [continued]

Can Geothermal Cooling Tame Data Centers’ Energy Appetite?

The world is increasingly run by data centers — huge, anonymous buildings that gobble up electricity and belch heat like angry dragons. Each click, stream, or swipe piles up more data in racks upon racks of humming servers. Yet few people realize just how thirsty these data dragons really are. … [continued]