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• Zvi Mowshowitz Newsletter 24 Aug The American People Really Hate Data Centers
• Paul Graham Korrent 1 Sept Stoke's reusable launch vehicles will be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit within a few years In a few years, Stoke's reusable launch vehicles are going to be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit.
• Meb Faber x.com 2 Sept Paul Kedrosky on the money flooding into data centers: "You have this incredible flow of money purchasing things that's increasingly divorced from what's going on inside the data centers." "From the standpoint of most…
• Nate Silver Newsletter 17 Aug Why does everyone hate data centers?
• Sriram Krishnan x.com 3 Sept talking to a few ai safety / alignment organizations and find broadly they are not sure what to make of the data center protests - also it’s not something that has shown up in any timelines or predictions. I see a split…
• Casey Newton Bluesky 31 Aug This is the message local communities have been waiting to hear to get them really excited about data centers. A masterstroke by the president
• Jasmine Sun Newsletter 9 Aug 🌻 abdul el-sayed on AI
• Jasmine Sun Newsletter 3 Aug 🌻 no data centers in my backyard
• Tomasz Tunguz x.com 26 Aug Does the token supply chain also experience the bullwhip effect? Here's my explanation of this classic phenomenon and what it means for AI data centers.
• Richard Stallman Site 5 Sept Urgent: Stand up to big tech on data centers
• Jasmine Sun x.com 4 Aug A real pleasure talking to @ezraklein about data centers, the permanent underclass, SBF mindset, and AI vibes from SF to Shanghai
• Noah Smith Newsletter 8 Aug Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
• Paul Graham Korrent 22 Aug Blocking data center construction in America would not slow the rate of AI progress, only the rate of AI progress in America. Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.
• Brian Potter Newsletter 8 Aug Reading List 08/08/2026
• Henry Farrell Bluesky 3 Sept this is a very interesting piece. The counterargument, made by people like Anton Leicht, is that data centers are very expensive, immovable and vulnerable to state action (see also journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).…
• Sriram Krishnan x.com 10 Aug …- the diffusion of AI spreads across the economy ( use more tokens ) - data center moratoriums are spreading across the country ( less infra for tokens) the answers have to be a) we figure out a way to make data…
• Brian Potter Newsletter 11 Jul Reading List 07/11/26
• Sabine Hossenfelder Blog 13 Aug The War on AI Has Begun
• Sriram Krishnan x.com 28 Aug This @axios piece on fracking and the national discourse around it as a parallel to data centers was fascinating. The current consensus answer seems to be : address local concerns while making the case for economic…
• Jasmine Sun x.com 21 Aug we're going to see a growing gap in the politics/policy of data centers e.g. Shapiro has to use combative rhetoric to meet the moment — but he's not doing a moratorium or banning subsidies. his standards are…
• Jasmine Sun x.com 4 Aug This piece is out! 4 sites, 10 days, and 6000 words on the politics of data centers in the Midwest: https://t.co/uOL7vmf3wC I talked to union leaders and real estate brokers, activists and local officials, politicians…
• Jasmine Sun x.com 21 Jul data center road trip // day 4-5 the AI backlash is bipartisan & showing up in politics in a big way - Abdul El-Sayed brought Bernie and AOC to rally with him in Lansing. all 3 decried AI oligarchy (Bernie with the…
• Jensen Huang Korrent 23 Mar Data centres should be built to degrade gracefully when the grid needs its power back, instead of demanding perfect uptime from utilities that have idle capacity most of the year. Now, the second thing is we have to build data centers that gracefully degrade.
• Brian Potter Changed their mind 30 Aug 2025 American data centres consume about 66 million gallons of water a day, a small fraction of what they withdraw. So to wrap up, I misread the Berkeley Report and significantly underestimated US data center water consumption.
• Casey Handmer Blog 30 Jan Direct Current Data Centers
• Brian Potter Korrent 10 Jun 2024 The efficiency gains that kept data-centre electricity use flat for a decade are largely spent, so new demand now arrives as new power demand. But many of these gains have already been achieved: the best data centers already use just 10% of their electricity for cooling and other non-IT equipment.
• Dario Amodei Korrent 13 Feb In this industry, profit means you underestimated demand and loss means you overestimated it, because the datacentres are bought years ahead. …the amount of demand you were going to get because you're buying the data centers ahead of…