"The research reveals that LLMs can be overconfident in their own answers yet quickly lose that confidence and change their minds when presented with a counterargument, even if the counterargument is incorrect. Understanding the nuances of this behavior can have direct consequences on how you build LLM applications, especially conversational interfaces that span several turns." https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-study-shows-llms-abandon-correct-answers-under-pressure-threatening-multi-turn-ai-systems

"The City of Lowell announced Friday that it will suspend its participation in a proposed data center. According to a post on the city's Facebook page, Lowell will resume engagements in the project if and when the prospective tenant provides specific details about their water and wastewater asks."

WWMT

Lowell halts participation in data center project over lack of water, wastewater details

The City of Lowell announced Friday that it will suspend its participation in a proposed data center.

"Despite being valued at billions of dollars, data center companies like Switch are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies. Annually, Nevada spends $139 million in public subsidies for data centers. That means that taxpayers like us foot the bill twice: first, we give data center companies a massive tax break to build in Nevada. Then, we pay for the energy upgrades and ongoing energy use they require through our increased utility bills." https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/dirty-data-centers-will-drive-up-our-utility-bills/

Data Center Growth Draining Global Water Supplies A new report says the race to build data centers amid booming AI demand is a serious threat to the world’s water supply. We have a global water crisis. Big Tech is accelerating it. Big Tech greed will destroy life on earth. It has no bottom.

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Data Center Growth Draining Global Water Supplies

A new report says the race to build data centers amid booming AI demand is a serious threat to the world’s water supply.

Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's intervention in a local rezoning effort has sparked a fight over local control. “If you can’t show me what’s in it for Chandler, then we are not having a conversation,” Ellis said before voting against the project. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/arizona-city-rejects-data-center-after-ai-lobbying-push-00688543

Gas Networks Ireland recently announced plans to build a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal near Kildysart Co. Clare and gave the local community just 24 hours notice of a public meeting. As Minister for Climate, Energy and Environment, the decision to build the terminal falls under Darragh O Brien's remit and it is important to put public pressure on him and to highlight the negative implications of the proposal. Please sign and share:

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Open Letter to Minister Darragh O Brien, Department of Climate, Energy and Environment

December 2025 A LNG terminal in Clare in the middle of a climate crisis? (Link to sign letter:https://forms.gle/4qATrN8MsB3Mhw4v5) Dear Minister Oâ...

"Fifty years ago, following the discovery of vast mineral deposits, Leaf Rapids was designed and built in a span of four years and heralded as the town of the future. Today, it's hanging by a thread."

Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids

LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets ...

Mining always leaves devastation in its wake. It comes, it extracts and what it leaves is toxic waste, destroyed Nature and lost people. We will soon be mining a Mount Everest of materials every year to feed our devouring civilization. Collapse is coming.

How the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply "Water demand to service datacentres in Sydney is forecast to be larger than volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade. In Melbourne the Victorian government has announced a “$5.5m investment to become Australia’s datacentre capital”, but the hyperscale datacentre applications already exceed the water demands of nearly all of state’s top 30 business customers combined."

the Guardian

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply

The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade

The energy needs of 30 data centers that are planned or under construction across the Carolinas, according to one industry report, would more than double the current energy needs in the Carolinas. Projected demand on the power grid creates a slew of unknowns that North Carolina utility regulators have only recently begun to grapple with publicly. Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article312306586.html#storylink=cpy

One 10-second AI video on OpenAI’s Sora app takes about 1 kilowatt hour of energy – about 10 per cent of the daily energy used by an average German household. Netflix 1 hour’s streaming takes around 18 watt hours. One 10 sec Sora Video takes the same as watching 5 and a half of hours of Netflix. Alastair Alexander

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Alistair Alexander (@reclaimedsystems)

A few days ago I posted that creating one 10-second AI video on OpenAI’s Sora app takes about 1 kilowatt hour of energy – about 10 per cent of ...