Police Scotland warns ‘robust security’ needed to stop attacks on AI datacentres
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/scottish-police-expect-public-opposition-larbert-datacentre
‘A great deal of public opposition is likely’ to a proposed datacentre near Edinburgh, the force says

"India identifies more than 125 million citizens as Scheduled Tribes and provides a constitutional framework for their governance under the Fifth and Sixth Schedules. However, according to the groups, the country has refused to formally recognise its Adivasi population as Indigenous Peoples under international law for nearly two decades after voting in favour of UNDRIP in 2007."

https://maktoobmedia.com/post?id=116217&slug=india-recognises-125-million-scheduled-tribes-at-home-but-denies-their-indigenous-status-globally-adivasi-groups-tell-un

“The decision weakens protections for a living cultural landscape and sacred ancestral homeland that has been cared for by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial and is a major setback to one of the nation’s most extraordinary models of collaborative management of public lands between Tribal Nations and federal agencies.”

https://grist.org/indigenous/mining-executives-bought-stock-in-their-own-firm-days-before-trump-shrank-bears-ears/

"Dive into the multifaceted environmental crisis driven by the digital revolution, where discarded electronics, energy-hungry data centers, and inefficient algorithms quietly undermine sustainability efforts. This chapter uncovers the staggering scale of e-waste—projected to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030—and the dire consequences of its mismanagement, from toxic landfills in developing nations to the hidden health risks for informal workers."

https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/e-waste-reduction-and-optimization-algorithmic-waste-massive-dat/52929366

Could the GOP Lose Florida Over Data Centers?

“Party labels are less important when it comes to our homes and way of life.”

“We had two overflow rooms full, and they had to stop people at the door because there was no room,” Slowey recalled.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/could-the-gop-lose-florida-over-data-centers/

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concerns

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/largest-tribe-in-the-us-bans-hyperscale-data-centers-on-its-lands

The oceans are boiling

AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers

https://theconversation.com/ai-companies-look-to-the-ocean-as-a-place-to-put-more-data-centers-289180

Big Tech wants to put giant ovens in the oceans to boil them even faster

Resistencia popular contra los centros de datos de IA en India

El gobierno indio ha concedido una exención fiscal de 20 años a todas estas inversiones y ha eliminado por completo la necesidad de permisos medioambientales para la mayoría de los proyectos, según la fuente.

https://laotraandalucia.com/2026/08/18/resistencia-popular-contra-los-centros-de-datos-de-ia-en-india/

#generativeAI #IAgenerativa #ilustracion #illustration #artificialintelligence #inteligenciaartificial #arte #art #StopIA #StopAI #StopIAGenerativa #AlagrescaconlaIA #IAÉticaEsMentira #ética #derechoshumanos

@AssociatedPress @international-news-AssociatedPress Lula just lost credibility.

cc @gerrymcgovern

How is the destruction of vintage books for AI harvesting not in the same category as the parts of the destruction events of the library of Alexandria associated with early Christian fanatics! The destruction of earlier physical artifacts, cultures, praxes, archives and knowledge, to be sacrificed & fed to the new god, to be repurposed, regurgitated and recombined probabilistically & endlessly! All hail our new gloryful AI god, may its basilisk punish all non-believers and obstructionists! 🤯

The sheer ignorance of the assumption that scanned contents of a book (or other physical artifact) are all what matters, is the same ignorance which denies the role of embodiment and how it shapes our perception, thoughts, feelings, actions, and how we generally relate to the world around us. Not just that, by only focusing on final results, it also entirely discards the creation processes and histories of said objects.

Smoking gun of books going to AI training found - 404 tracked one shipment to an Amazon AI training facility

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
https://archive.is/70Hun

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

Tante on AI: ‘When this thing crashes, I want to see apologies’

I interviewed @tante for Pivot to AI about what is to be done. We went quite long, nearly 50 minutes!

Final version is up Friday. Supporters get the raw unfiltered version, before I bleep it for Apple ;-)

YouTube members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TE5RdZ1dlc
Patreon (podcast and video): https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/tante-interview-166906344

@urlyman Totally agree. And it's the same when you try to warn about the insustainability of current global population numbers - I remember that I was once called a "genocide promoter" for explaining in public what I wrote at "We, the detritivores" https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/download/we-detritivores/

@urlyman We were tooting with #RichardHeinberg tag then and the days after his passing. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-23/devastating-news-the-loss-of-richard-heinberg/ We even translated some pieces into Spanish and Galician for our @revista 15/15\15, like this one: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/08/14/a-mensaxe-de-richard-heinberg-para-os-musicos-en-tempos-de-colapso/

I highly recommend this lenghy interview I had the honour to do with him just a few months ago: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/04/04/20-years-after-the-oil-depletion-protocol-an-interview-with-richard-heinberg/

Las empresas de vigilancia están vendiendo informes sobre la gente crítica con los Centros de Datos.
Me pregunto cuantos Derechos Humanos y leyes nacionales e internacionales vulnera eso:

#CentrosDeDatos #Resistencias #Activismo
https://prospect.org/2026/08/10/private-intelligence-firms-selling-dossiers-on-ai-data-center-critics/

…In Melody’s eulogy of Richard Heinberg, she recalls a saying he used:

“Everyone wants a village, but nobody wants to be a villager.”

- - -

Richard died last month aged 75. He was a good and important voice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Heinberg

Listened to a conversation yesterday and didn’t say anything. The gist of it was…

“I don’t get why people want to to go back to simpler times. I like having a fridge.”

There’s a fundamental misunderstanding here. We are in overshoot. We are hourly adding to overshoot. The debt is becoming due.

I like having a fridge too. But we are creating the conditions where having a fridge is becoming harder. Warning of this is not *wanting* to not have a fridge

Abbott ordered state regulators to conduct an audit of all data center projects seeking permits in Texas before they give any more the green light, a move the governor has cast as a statewide pause on data center construction.

“Our top priority is to protect Texans’ safety and quality of life,” Abbott said. “Texans must come first.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/timeline-texas-data-centers/

Community pressure is making data centers more expensive to build. Keep that pressure up.

"For investors, the shift threatens to raise construction and operating costs for cloud providers, data-center developers and AI companies. New taxes, utility tariffs and permitting restrictions could delay projects or redirect investment toward states offering abundant power and more favorable policies."

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4633608-states-rethink-ai-data-center-incentives-as-power-costs-public-backlash-grow