Huge majorities, 80 percent and more, want government support for retraining and education programs for those who lose jobs due to AI. They want regulations requiring corporations to give notice before replacing jobs with AI, and to be taxed to contribute to these programs. They also want to share in any benefits from AI through […]
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The noise kept getting louder. It became this terribly loud, high-pitched noise—and that’s along with the lower tone rumbling. I started reaching out to city officials. They’d say, “Yeah, we know it’s a problem. But it will be better next week.” That’s a phrase they kept repeating: “It will be better next week.” It’s never […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The widespread opposition to the construction of data centers is a huge opportunity for liberals and Democrats, says author and organizer Astra Taylor. In the latest episode of […]
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Deep Fission is also drilling its boreholes at the edge of the Roubidoux aquifer, an underground water source that’s part of the larger Ozark system. While Parsonites get their drinking water from nearby Lake Parsons, the Ozark system is used for commerce, farming, and rural water districts all over the shop. “If something did happen, […]
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The Trump administration, meanwhile, has been more than happy to help the companies that have cozied up to it. In just one recent example, the Department of Justice signaled that it’s “evaluating possible intervention or amicus participation” in a suit being brought against Musk by the NAACP, alleging that Musk’s xAI has illegally installed and […]
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The first data centers were clustered mostly in urban areas, but most new ones are planned for rural areas, especially in the South and Midwest. These rural locations, where land ranges over broader jurisdictions, can make it difficult to target the decision-makers, but the people in these areas are no less concerned about how AI may […]
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Amazon has agreed to invest as much as $25 billion more in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence start-up that created the Claude chatbot, the companies said on Monday, the latest in a series of massive deals between tech giants and A.I. start-ups. Amazon, which previously invested $8 billion in Anthropic, is already one of the start-up’s […]
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Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth of data centers planned for this year have been delayed or canceled. Just a third of those projects are currently under construction, the market intelligence firm Sightline Climate estimates in a forthcoming […]
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What unites these voices isn’t a shared position on labor policy or climate change. It’s a more fundamental conviction: Decisions should be made by the people who have to live with the consequences. The farmer whose well competes with a cooling system, the family whose electric bill doubles, the county commission that must weigh tax […]
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In the most on-the-nose example, Abundance 2025 also had two literal trade associations that represent major tech firms among its sponsors: Chamber of Progress and the New American Industrial Alliance. The former of these is funded by literally every prominent AI firm in the game, from Marc Andreessen’s a16z to Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, […]
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