Giant datacenters are taking over the U.S. - & angering local residents. "They're noisy. They take a lot of power & water, & some communities do not want them." 👉🏻 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/25/nx-s1-5406359/giant-data-centers-are-taking-over-the-u-s-and-angering-local-residents

Conf. · Tue, Jun. 3, 17.30–21 and Wed, Jun. 4, 12–19 · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians. 👉🏻

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians. - Emergent Digital Media

CripShip: A revolt against AI - 2024 · A roleplaying game about resisting certain types of AI created by big tech. The game is inspired by disabled people destroying the systems of power that create and shape AI and building new worlds from disabled imagination. 👉🏻

art.josephwilk.net

CripShip: A revolt against AI

A TTRPG by Joseph Wilk where disability saves society from BigTech.

By the end of 2025 · energy consumption by AI systems could approach up to 49% of total datacentre power consumption, again excluding crypto mining. 👉🏻

the Guardian

AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’

Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today