AI data centers spark scrutiny

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HAKAN YILMAZKUDAY

@yilmazkuday.bsky.social

Free access to "Artificial Intelligence and Labor Markets: Evidence from Google Trends" is available at rdcu.be/eHd8u.

November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM

The Guardian

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

An expert explains how communities in some of the world’s driest regions are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment. This Q&A originally appeared as part of The Guardian’s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here. The data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom are enormous in every sense: their finances, their physical scale, and the amount of information they hold are so vast that halting their construction can seem like stopping an avalanche in progress.

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Aija Leiponen

@aijaleiponen.bsky.social

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Data center race: 'The pace is great by German standards'

The capacity for artificial intelligence is set to quadruple here, according to a new report. Billions are flowing into data centers. Yet the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Data center race: 'The pace is great for German conditions'

AI capacity in this country is set to quadruple, with billions flowing into data centers. Still, the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

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by Michael J. Hicks

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Michael Hicks

@profhicks.bsky.social

My newest post on the local labor market effects of Data Centers . . .

#DataCenters @profweinstein.bsky.social

michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/data-cente...

November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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molly taft

@mollytaft.com

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.

www.wired.com

November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM

by Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell

@mmitchell.bsky.social

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 7h

The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)

Decided to check settings:

November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Wired

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis attempts to estimate AI's upcoming environmental footprint in the United States and finds that the ideal data center sites aren’t where they’re being built.

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Serge Belongie

@serge.belongie.com

Interview from last week’s AI in Science summit in Copenhagen ais25.eu

Europe’s Win and Worry with Artificial Intelligence

Launch of RAISE – the Resource for AI Science in Europe.

www.sciencestories.dk

November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM

by Kate Jackson

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Kate Jackson

@katejackson.bsky.social

Can't get the government to promise to bail out AI? Well, entangle AI in Wall Street so much that the government will be forced to bail out both to preserve...the financial system itself.

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM

by Daniel J. Solove

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Daniel Solove

@daniel-solove.bsky.social

“AI is trained based on a massive taking of people’s data without consent, oversight, limitation, or any consideration of the harms it might create.” – from “The Great Scrape” FINAL PUBLISHED ARTICLE papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM

The Wall Street Journal

The Political Left Is Dialing Up Scrutiny of Data Centers

A group of Democratic senators are demanding the White House answer for higher electric bills they blame in part on the AI boom driving one of the most expensive infrastructure build-outs in U. S. history.

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Jacob Rosenberg

@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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Kathimerini

Wave of layoffs at tech giants due to AI

The future has arrived earlier—much earlier. It has been no more than one or two years since studies and projections began to appear about the global impact on the job market of the recent surge in artificial intelligence, its applications, and the dizzying investments in the new technology.

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Handelsblatt

Data Centers in Germany: AI Computing Power Will Quadruple by 2030

More and more data centers are being built in Germany, especially for AI applications. But compared with countries like the United States and China, Germany and Europe still have substantial catching up to do.

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AI data centers spark scrutiny

Scholar power: 3.0%

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

Scholar power: 1.5%

Data center race: 'The pace is great by German standards'

Data center race: 'The pace is great for German conditions'

Scholar power: 5.9%

Scholar power: 1.3%

Scholar power: 10.6%

Scholar power: 29.7%

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

Scholar power: 45.9%

Scholar power: 4%

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The Political Left Is Dialing Up Scrutiny of Data Centers

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Scholar power: 0.0%

Scholar power: 1.5%

Wave of layoffs at tech giants due to AI

Data Centers in Germany: AI Computing Power Will Quadruple by 2030

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