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Don’t blame data centers for failed public policy
5+ min ago (565+ words) Data centers have become a kind of boogeyman among voters lately. Recent polling even suggests that new data center construction is less popular than the IRS. Only 27% of Americans at least somewhat favor new data center construction, according to Gallup....
Northern Virginia Data-Center Trip Exposes a 3-Gigawatt Grid Blind Spot
14+ min ago (576+ words) A Northern Virginia transmission-line outage on July 22 caused more than 3 gigawatts of data-center demand to disconnect from the PJM Interconnection grid nearly simultaneously, creating a voltage disturbance detected from the Washington area to Chicago. The lost demand equaled about 3% of…...
YouTube Cracks Down on Mass-Produced AI Content, Cutting Off Ad Revenue for Low-Quality 'Slop' Channels
25+ min ago (248+ words) YouTube has tightened the rules governing which creators can earn advertising revenue from artificial intelligence-generated videos, moving to strip monetization from channels that mass-produce low-quality AI content, use manipulative tactics to boost views, or deploy AI avatars to dispense advice…...
She moved to rural Georgia, then learned a hyperscale data center was planned through her backyard
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (629+ words) Rural Coweta County, Georgia, seemed like a place for Laura Beth to get away from the spread of development she had tried to leave behind. Now, that quieter move has been overshadowed by the prospect of a massive hyperscale data…...
Spring City leaders vote in favor of a 2-year pause on AI data centers
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (31+ words) WTVC Spring City leaders vote in favor of a 2-year pause on AI data centers...
Local-first AI in Telegram to Curb Web3 Outreach
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (25+ words) Telebiz's Sean Assaf urges moving CRM into Telegram with local-first AI to protect chat privacy, automate admin and preserve human control of Web3 outreach....
Google removes 'Don't Be Evil' motto from its Code of Conduct
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (251+ words) To be evil or not to be evil — that is the question, Google. It seems after years of the tech company's commitment to its low-key creepy-sounding mantra, "Don't Be Evil," Google has removed the phrase from its Code of Conduct....
My click tracker said 518 humans. Only 134 people loaded the page.
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (618+ words) For a few weeks my analytics told me a comfortable story: 518 humans had clicked an outbound link in the last 30 days. Then I put that number next to a different one from the same database — 134 page views — and the story…...
MASA Level 2 Explained: Google's Security Bar for VPN Apps
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (351+ words) MASA gives Android apps an independent security review badge. Here is what the two assurance levels actually test, and what the badge does not cover....
As city staff review data centre proposal, Burlington, Ont., councillors vote down data centre moratorium | CBC News
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (915+ words) Burlington, Ont., joined municipalities including Hamilton this week in debating how best to regulate data centres. As city staff review a developer's application to build a two-storey data centre, councillors voted against studying a one-year moratorium on such facilities. Councillors…...