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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 14h

Now anyone who walks past a Ring camera can have their face scanned by facial recognition software -- whether they consent to it or not: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 2d

"But there is nothing inevitable about the impact of technology on our society. The impact of AI and automation on workers will be determined by a set of choices." 👏👏👏 www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-mu...

AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires » Senator Bernie Sanders

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Fox News Everybody agrees that artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are going to have a transformative impact on our country and the world. There are strong disagreements...

www.sanders.senate.gov

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 5d

ICE, cops, the IDF -- all of the worst people you know are using Amazon Web Services to store their surveillance data. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

With a growing roster of partners, Amazon has been peddling AI drone surveillance, gun detection and real-time crime center tech to law enforcement agencies, public records reveal.

www.forbes.com

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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 9d

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 7d

These guys really think we'll forgive them for torching the planet and enabling fascism as long as they offer a few blue-collar jobs in exchange 🙄 fortune.com/2025/09/30/n...

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world | Fortune

The $4 trillion tech CEO warns the future won’t be powered by tech bros—but rather the blue-collar workers.

fortune.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 9d

"In a 2024 survey of Silicon Valley residents, three-quarters of respondents felt tech companies have too much power; nearly as many believe they have lost their moral compass." www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 12d

Worker organizing has pushed Microsoft to end this specific partnership. However, the Israeli military plans to transfer the data to AWS.

Amazon & Google must drop their $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israel. Join @notechforapartheid.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 12d

When we fight, we win.

Amazon has been found guilty of tricking tens of millions of us into signing up for Prime, and then made it impossible for customers to cancel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Claims It Tricked Prime Customers

www.nytimes.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 13d

If you want to know what it's really like to work at Amazon, listen to Amazon @teamsters.bsky.social' new podcast, Shut It Down:

open.spotify.com/episode/5gZ8...

Building Worker Power (Episode 1)

open.spotify.com

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 14d

Local communities in Indiana and across the country are fighting back against Amazon and other big tech companies' unfettered data center expansion.

This is a fight about putting people over profit. Watch this @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjka...

I Live Next To Amazon's Largest Data Center. They're Stealing Our Water

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

www.youtube.com

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 15d

This weekend, we held a rally against the dangerous alliance developing between Trump and tech billionaires.

We joined organizers fighting Big Tech’s data centers, and tech workers @notechforapartheid.bsky.social holding tech corporations accountable for participating in the genocide in Palestine.

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 17d

We rallied in NYC to expose how AI data centers are wrecking the climate just to make billionaires richer. Thanks to @stand.earth @mediajustice.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @biologicaldiversity.org and @nodesertdatacenter.com for the solidarity and art building skills.

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 19d

If AI is the technology of the future, why is it being powered by old-timey materials like coal? Data centers get 56% of their energy from fossil fuels. @mediajustice.bsky.social explains what that means for the South: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South - MediaJustice

Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as...

mediajustice.org

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 20d

Friends at @mediajustice.bsky.social , @athenaforall.bsky.social + @notechforapartheid.bsky.social are rallying this Saturday to fight back against the nationwide expansion of AI data centers + ways Big Tech tech is fueling oppression of black and brown communities. Join them: bit.ly/datacenterra...

Rally: No Data Centers for Billionaires

Our rally: We’ll hear from local, state, and national organizers fighting back against Big Tech’s data centers across the country, as well as organizers and workers who are fighting to stop Big Te...

actionnetwork.org

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 21d

Dunno, feels like the real problem here is corruption, not bureaucracy. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/a...

Amazon CEO Jassy says company is reducing bureaucracy, which is ‘anathema’ to innovation

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said he's working to root out bureaucracy from within the company's ranks as part of an effort to reset its culture.

www.cnbc.com

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 22d

"What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us." ...Yet Amazon, Google and Microsoft still supply computing power to the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

www.nytimes.com

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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 22d

This Saturday (9/20): Join workers, organizers, @athenaforall.bsky.social and @notechforapartheid.bsky.social as they rally against Big Tech's data centers that are powering AI, raising energy bills, and polluting communities across the country.

RSVP HERE: bit.ly/datacenterrally

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 23d

ou have to wonder why Google, Amazon and Microsoft are so threatened when employees question the companies' ties with the Israeli military 👀 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tech worker dissent over Gaza bubbles inside Amazon, Microsoft and Google

An Amazon employee said he was suspended for saying it must cut ties with Israel over the Gaza war. Microsoft and Google have fired workers for similar protests.

www.washingtonpost.com

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 26d

Fortunately, more people are waking up to the fact that these data centers don't actually bring jobs and prosperity to the communities that host them.

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26d

Founded in 2019, the Data Center Coalition is an industry association that is growing alongside the boom in data center construction, advocating for the industry’s interests across the US at multiple levels of government. But those who seek to counter industry messages are organizing, too.

Amidst Boom, Data Center Lobby Expands Its Influence, Spending, and Tactics | TechPolicy.Press

The Data Center Coalition is spending more money on behalf of its corporate members to lobby governments and public entities.

www.techpolicy.press

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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 28d

💥BREAKING💥THOUSANDS of low-wage #MOworkers and allies are rallying *inside* the state Capitol to fight Trump’s power grab — right as lawmakers try to ram through their illegal plan to redraw our districts, break up our communities, and steal away working class power ❌

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · Sep 2

Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14.
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't forget the handouts to Big Tech, whose server farms drive up water and power bills for everyone else. And they get tons of our tax dollars for the privilege of doing it!

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · Sep 5

Donald Trump is making your electric bills more expensive by slashing clean energy projects (and jobs) and letting his Big Oil billionaire buddies do whatever they want.

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amazon Web Services is already the largest cloud computing provider for DHS. Now it's offering the gov't $1 billion in free IT services. If this isn't complicity, we don't know what is. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Amazon Web Services to provide US government agencies with up to $1 billion in savings

Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. government agencies with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization and training through the end of 2028, the U.S. General Services Administration said on Thursday.

www.reuters.com

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · Sep 4

More evidence that Amazon doesn't actually lower prices -- it's facing a class-action lawsuit for blocking third-party sellers from offering lower prices on other sites. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales

Amazon.com must face a class action on behalf of hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers over claims that the online retail giant overcharged for products sold by third-party sellers, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled.

www.reuters.com

Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tucson's residents and city council overwhelmingly rejected a proposed Amazon data center last month -- but the company *really* doesn't want to take "no" for an answer. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...

Amazon-linked data center project in Tucson, Arizona, requests power despite water denial from local officials

Project Blue still moving forward despite strong opposition

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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