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A seven-trillion-dollar buildout is going up on the assumption that AI demand shows up. If it doesn't, the towers still got built, the grid still got upgraded, and guess whose monthly bill carries it. Nobody asked us. We just got the invoice. fortune.com/2026/07/26/d...

Data centers were actually making electricity costs cheaper, but the $7 trillion buildout with no guaranteed AI demand is threatening the trend | FortuneFrom 2015 to 2024, average retail electricity prices decreased by 3.5% for every doubling of data center capacity, new research finds.fortune.com

Real question, and I want real answers: what did your July electric bill do? Mine jumped. Somewhere near a lot of us, a data center is pulling power like 100,000 homes so an app can guess what we'll buy next. Reply with your state and your number.

New Norton survey: a third of parents aren't confident their kid can tell AI-generated content from real. Two-thirds fear fake images made of their own child. That fear is rational. Five years ago it didn't exist. Talk to your kids tonight about who profits. newsroom.gendigital.com/2026-07-28-N...

Norton Study Reveals Emerging Risks for Kids Online, Prompting Parents to Have a New Kind of "The Talk"New findings from the Norton Insights Report reveal parents are navigating a world of AI-generated images, digital impersonation, and online relationships as childhood enters a new digital era....newsroom.gendigital.com

New York paused new hyperscale data centers for a year — first state in the country to do it. In one poll, a third of NY voters said they don't want them at any price. That came from people at zoning meetings. Your town hall is not too small to matter. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Could the data center moratorium cost New York grid investments?Hochul says over the next year, a public service commission will consider options including setting up a separate rate system for data centers.spectrumlocalnews.com

La gasolina pasó de $4 el galón. La luz sube. La comida sube. Y mientras tanto, las empresas más ricas del mundo se llevan tus datos gratis. "Si no pagas por el producto, el producto eres tú." — El Dilema de las Redes

Best thing I read this week: librarians are running "Avoiding AI" workshops. Bangor Public Library capped signups at 30. About 70 people kept showing up. Not billionaires. Not regulators. Librarians, a projector, and a sign-up sheet. techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.techcrunch.com

Honest question, no judgment: what's the ONE thing still keeping you on Facebook or Instagram? The family group chat? A local buy-nothing? Your business page? Grandma's photos?

Instagram feels safe because the harm is invisible. Nobody feels data being sold. You feel your cousin's baby photos. Slot-machine design plus your whole family in one place. That's the lock. Privacy lectures don't move people. Their kids and their bills do. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee tells juryAttorneys for the state of Tennessee told a jury in Nashville on Monday that Meta Platforms' leadership disregarded internal research about its Instagram platform's impact on teenagers as the company ...www.spokesman.com

Business owners: the EU just formally found TikTok broke child-privacy law. Meta is in front of a Tennessee jury right now. You're renting your customer list from landlords with growing legal exposure. On Bluesky your followers are portable. Start the migration! abcnews.com/Technology/w...

EU finds TikTok violates digital rule book by failing to protect privacy of minorsThe European Commission has found TikTok did not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minorsabcnews.com

Illinois power prices are 40–50% higher than two years ago. Since 2021 ComEd spent $3B+ connecting data centers. Deposits from those customers covered about 25%. You covered the rest. Nobody asked you. Nobody voted. It just showed up in the mail. www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2026/07...

Will Illinois meet the moment to rein in data centers and save us from skyrocketing power bills? | Citizens Utility BoardBy Sarah Moskowitz Executive Director Citizens Utility Board (CUB) (Note: A version of this opinion piece appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business on July 27, 2026.) This summer millions of Illinois consu...www.citizensutilityboard.org

La Comisión Europea determinó el viernes que TikTok no protegió la privacidad de los menores: dejó que adultos vieran las cuentas de niños. Ciberacoso. Contacto no deseado. Depredadores. No es rumor. Es una decisión oficial. Protege a tus hijos y sus datos.

In 2017 Meta's own product managers wrote that notifications and infinite scroll are "inherently at odds with well-being." They said the company should warn the public. The warning never came. A Nashville jury heard that Monday. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee tells juryAttorneys for the state of Tennessee told a jury in Nashville on Monday that Meta Platforms' leadership disregarded internal research about its Instagram platform's impact on teenagers as the company ...www.spokesman.com

Reading those posts on Truth Social would be an ordeal.

YES QUEEN! As the gays say!

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Nuevo México le dijo NO a Oracle — dos veces — a la tubería de gas para su mega data center. Razón: uso excesivo de agua y emisiones más del doble que toda la ciudad de Albuquerque. Si un estado puede decir no, tu comunidad también puede. Organízate.

Pennsylvania's new budget now REQUIRES big data centers to disclose their energy and water use. Not optional, but law. Transparency is a tool, not a favor. Ask your state: do OUR data centers have to tell us what they're taking? If not, demand it.

Google just raised its 2026 spending plan to as much as $205 BILLION, mostly for AI data centers! While grocery and gas bills climb. Two hundred billion dollars finds server farms fast. Funny how it can't find lower prices for the rest of us. datacentrenews.substack.com/p/weekly-dat...

Weekly Data Centre News - 24/07/2026The latest weekly news from the world of Data Centers..datacentrenews.substack.com

Data centers are now, per reporting this week, "the newest obsession of Congress" at least 5 bills are moving to address the water, power, and cost fallout. It took years of neighbors packing town halls to get here. Keep showing up. It's working. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

On the Hill: How data centers are becoming the newest obsession of CongressThe uncertainty around AI data centers is heating up in Congress, and lawmakers are eyeing ways to rein them in.www.deseret.com

Sit with this number: Project Jupiter is forecast to emit over 10 MILLION TONS of greenhouse gases a year! More than double an entire city's total. One data center. State officials said no because the math simply doesn't work. Neither should it, anywhere. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/new-...

New Mexico regulators reject natural gas pipeline for Oracle's 2.5GW Project Jupiter data centerPipeline was expected to feed fuel cells on the sitewww.datacenterdynamics.com