Data centers expand, protests erupt

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Joanna Bryson

@j2bryson.bsky.social

AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU.

Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI.

#digitalGovernance #AIEthics

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CryptPad

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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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molly taft

@mollytaft.com

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.

www.wired.com

November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM

by Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell

@mmitchell.bsky.social

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 15h

The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h

Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)

Decided to check settings:

November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM

by Jonathan Hopkin

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Jonathan Hopkin

@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

An AI lobbyist writes

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1h

Opinion: “It’s difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of information technology.”

🖊️ Ian Richardson #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/zXc850Xpvbu

November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM

by Serge Belongie

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Serge Belongie

@serge.belongie.com

Interview from last week’s AI in Science summit in Copenhagen ais25.eu

Europe’s Win and Worry with Artificial Intelligence

Launch of RAISE – the Resource for AI Science in Europe.

www.sciencestories.dk

November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM

by Paul Dolan

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by Hakan Yilmazkuday

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HAKAN YILMAZKUDAY

@yilmazkuday.bsky.social

Free access to "Artificial Intelligence and Labor Markets: Evidence from Google Trends" is available at rdcu.be/eHd8u.

November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM

by Albert Park

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by Aija Leiponen

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Aija Leiponen

@aijaleiponen.bsky.social

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Reposted by Matthew E. Kahn

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Reposted by Avi Goldfarb

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by Michael J. Hicks

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Scholar power: 1.3%

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Michael Hicks

@profhicks.bsky.social

My newest post on the local labor market effects of Data Centers . . .

#DataCenters @profweinstein.bsky.social

michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/data-cente...

November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Reposted by Dean Baker

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by Daniel J. Solove

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Daniel Solove

@daniel-solove.bsky.social

“AI is trained based on a massive taking of people’s data without consent, oversight, limitation, or any consideration of the harms it might create.” – from “The Great Scrape” FINAL PUBLISHED ARTICLE papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM

by Kate Jackson

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Story's scientific field profile

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Kate Jackson

@katejackson.bsky.social

Can't get the government to promise to bail out AI? Well, entangle AI in Wall Street so much that the government will be forced to bail out both to preserve...the financial system itself.

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Reposted by Aija Leiponen

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Reposted by Cecilia Rikap

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Tagesspiegel Background

@tspbackground.bsky.social

#BuyEuropean reicht zur Stärkung des Digitalstandorts Europa nicht aus, argumentiert @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. Sie hat untersucht, wie sehr Google, Microsoft, Amazon und Meta inzwischen mit der #KI-Forschungslandschaft verwoben sind. Direkt, aber vor allem indirekt (Test/Abo) 👉 t1p.de/ssacc

Zitat von Dr. Cecilia Rikap, außerordentliche Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Forschungsleiterin am Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose des University College London: „Die EU hat das Ausmaß der Kontrolle durch US-Firmen noch nicht erkannt“ aus dem Interview mit aus dem aktuellen BRiefing Digitalisierung & KI.

November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM

Reposted by Kate Jackson

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Jacob Rosenberg

@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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