Mark Zuckerberg’s $250 billion Louisiana data center will create just 1,000 jobs. That’s $250 million spent per job.

From 24/7 Wall Street: flip.it/efyHVb

#Meta #DataCenters #Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg's $250 Billion Louisiana Data Center Will Create Just 1,000 Jobs. That's $250 Million Spent Per Job - 24/7 Wall St.

Meta is pouring an almost incomprehensible sum into a single Louisiana parish, and the ratio of dollars to permanent jobs raises a question every state chasing AI investment should be asking.

^{AJ Tiarsmith (24/7 Wall Street)}

📦️ Amazon circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

tomshardware.com/tech-industry…

#ai #datacenters #amazon #uspol

WATER BANKRUPTCY
data centers don't care...

#UN #WaterBankruptcy #DataCenters #Billionaires #PublicThreat

Data Center CEO chased out of Salem, OR city council hearing by protesters with guillotine.

Love that portable guillotine on wheels towed behind an Xtracycle extended bike.

Let's just say in a world of electrical/energy and water shortages, some cuts are necessary...

#AI #DataCenters #Guillotine

🏗️ The AI buildout is now a trillion-dollar construction boom, and the US, Europe, and China are funding it three completely different ways: private credit SPVs, public gigafactories, state banks.

hermez.prose.sh/the-trillion-d…

#datacenters #AI #infrastructure

The Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout: How the US, Europe, and China Build Data Centers Differently

^prose.sh

(6/n)

...see how these prices can last in the medium term.

Without #SpaceX' #Datacenters in space and #AI efficiency gains failing to materialize in the short term, the AI Industry being heavily leveraged, we have all the ingredients of yet another chip price crash in place.--Not only for memory chips, but also for #GPU|s.

With virtually all industries seemingly going "all in" on #AI, and keeping in mind that, at least in #Germany, the aftermath of the 1999...

@jpturcotte @mountdiscovery

#HPsCommentary

*#DRAM price hikes are unwarranted--Party Like It's 1999*

(5/n)

#DRAM price anomaly?

With a huge backlash now against #Datacenters (ex-China,) at least in the Western World, and energy supply being a strong limitational, factor, as #ElonMusk explained in his recent long #TheEconomist interview, I don't...

@jpturcotte

@mountdiscovery

But now with data centers sprouting up, the east is facing water issues also — and it's happening quickly.

"Virginia study on data centers calls for water regulations"

There a lot in this report:
"Virginia, the world’s largest data center hub, has released a long-delayed study that examined the state’s eastern region groundwater supply and the resource-hungry industry’s possible impact on it..."
apnews.com/article/data-center…
#DataCenters #Virginia #GroundWater

RE: mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/…

This is the great unifier of the people against #billionaires.

Left, right or center. Everyone hates them.

#AI #datacenters

Gerry McGovern

2026-07-24 11:06:30

Community resistance against data centers is working

"More than 300 cities, towns, and counties—including Monterey Park, Calif., Dekalb County, Ga., and Jefferson County, Pa.—have placed bans or moratoriums on the construction of hyperscale data centers. In the first three months of 2026, 75 major projects worth more than $130 billion were delayed or canceled in part due to organized local opposition."

time.com/article/2026/07/22/co…

Community Backlash to AI Data Centers Is Growing Across the U.S.

If there’s one thing most Americans agree on, it’s that they hate data centers.

^{Simmone Shah (Time)}

I needed something send to people who aren't aware of the issues with #AI but couldn't find anything comprehensive and authoritative enough, so I compiled a page of links that hopefully can provide enough evidence... 🚫🤖

#NoAI #LLM #Techbros #DataCenters #Capitalism

eobet.com/fun/llms/

The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point.

HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20.

Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com

#tech #datacenters #generativeai #books #reading #climate