Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight(404media.co)

42 points by sudonanohome 6 months ago | 14 comments

Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage(404media.co)

81 points by awoodbeck 19 days ago | 25 comments

A 404 Media article reporting that lawmakers introduced several bills to restrict Flock's license plate reader surveillance following the outlet's reporting.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester(404media.co)

347 points by sedatk 7 months ago | 161 comments

404 Media news article reporting that Proton Mail provided data that helped the FBI identify an anonymous Stop Cop City protester.

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'(404media.co)

357 points by 01-_- 3 months ago | 153 comments

404 Media news article about Henrico County, Virginia, home to 37 data centers, asking schools to conserve electricity.

404 Media Is Partnering with Wired(404media.co)

34 points by mrzool 2 years ago | 5 comments

iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine(404media.co)

239 points by jmsflknr 3 years ago | 165 comments

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land(tomshardware.com)

442 points by maxloh 4 months ago | 231 comments

Tom's Hardware news article about a Texas city selling land a farmer donated for a park, for $10M to a data center developer, with $30M in expected taxes.

Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built(wsj.com)

10 points by JumpCrisscross 28 days ago | 6 comments

WSJ article about a rural town where every household would receive $10,000 if a proposed data center is built; the capture shows only a device verification screen.

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter(anthropic.com)

36 points by artninja1988 13 days ago | 26 comments

Anthropic Frontier Red Team post reporting experiments suggesting small AI models may soon self-replicate on commercial IoT devices without datacenter access.

AI uses less water than the public thinks(californiawaterblog.com)

359 points by hirpslop 5 months ago | 320 comments

California WaterBlog post examining AI and data center water use, arguing concerns are overstated and drawing lessons for California water management.

Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours(bloomberg.com)

23 points by mfiguiere 16 days ago | 7 comments

Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers(theguardian.com)

401 points by heyimada 14 days ago | 115 comments

Guardian news article reporting that Google was ordered to halt work on two Finnish datacentre sites after failing to carry out environmental impact assessments.