Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources(19thnews.org)

445 points by benwerd 3 months ago | 175 comments

Blog post by Ben Werdmuller linking to The 19th's story about former NOAA staff rebuilding the defunct Climate.gov resource as Climate.us using open data.

Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet(kentik.com)

9 points by m-hodges 9 months ago | 1 comments

Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians(science.org)

56 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 31 comments

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal(politico.com)

76 points by impish9208 6 months ago | 69 comments

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat(politico.com)

36 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 5 comments

Software developer gets $5M judgement against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell(cnn.com)

89 points by latchkey 3 years ago | 16 comments

Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait(a16z.com)

26 points by gmays 15 days ago | 33 comments

An a16z American Dynamism article explaining why Texas's grid operator paused new data center interconnections amid a surge of large-load requests.

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage(1011now.com)

469 points by sensanaty 22 days ago | 608 comments

Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran(wsj.com)

497 points by berkeleyjunk 1 month ago | 415 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.

The US government is buying troves of data about Americans(wired.com)

417 points by benwerd 3 years ago | 198 comments

Wired article on a declassified ODNI report revealing that US federal agencies are buying large amounts of commercially available data about Americans.

The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution(capitalbnews.org)

463 points by doener 1 month ago | 337 comments

Capital B News article reporting that the EPA proposes rule changes limiting public input on pollution permits for data center projects.

AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers(reuters.com)

25 points by samizdis 13 days ago | 38 comments

Reuters article on an Anthropic warning that AI models may soon be able to self-replicate without access to data centers; page shows a device verification screen.