"If you're wondering what happened to your computer from 20 years ago, it just might be at a massive e-waste dumpsite in Ghana, one of the major destinations for discarded electronics from Europe and North America. In the r/UrbanHell subreddit, one user shared photos that captured a haunting scene at an e-waste graveyard."

Yahoo News

Disturbing photos reveal astonishing truth about what happens to thrown-out electronics: 'Shame'

"We've become parasites within our own home."

The data centers are coming. Resist! "I never thought that a data centre would be built across the street from my house," she said. "I would not have bought this house if I had known what was going in across the street." "There are no birds around here anymore," he said, noting the humming or buzzing noise the centre emits scares away a lot of wildlife from his area.

BBC News

A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres in Virginia

Data centres were billed as a boon to Virginia’s economy. Now, residents are concerned about their impact on real estate and electricity costs.

AI is a racist, bigoted, imperialist male white supremacy tech bro shithead "When prompted to visualise Aotearoa New Zealand’s past, Sora privileges the European settler viewpoint: pre-colonial landscapes are rendered as empty wilderness, Captain Cook appears as a calm civiliser, and Māori are cast as timeless, peripheral figures."

The Conversation

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research

Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.