New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. Photo collage showing smoke and data centers. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: WIRED STAFF; GETTY IMAGES New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects—which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—have the potential to emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

"Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024"

Wild new @mollytaft.com @wired.com piece:

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Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Photo of US President Donald Trump NEW EPISODE | Trump is fighting for a worse deal with Iran Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

After tearing up the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal, Trump is trying to bomb his way to a better outcome & it’s failing spectacularly.

@jonatomic.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social discuss the US-Iran negotiations & the vanishing guardrails around nuclear weapons.

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In a nutshell. 😊

Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not For the attorneys who helped fuel the president’s efforts to remain in office, the consequences have been severe. Take John Eastman, for example.

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him...

Eastman: disbarred

Giuliani: disbarred

Chesebro: disbarred

Clark: facing possible disbarment

Ellis: law license suspended

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

The world faces a grim reality, even if Trump exists in a different one The world is stuck watching a performative series of announcements about meetings that could, may, will happen, involving a president not dealing with the reality that he is in a weak and confused bar...

Questioning Trumps sanity. From Australia’s pre-eminent journo Laura Tingle

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Bombs, rain and destruction: Life in Gaza six months into a ceasefire Palestinians in Gaza fear they are being forgotten as the Iran war drags on, with Israeli strikes continuing despite a ceasefire and the humanitarian situation still dire.

Israel is a terrorist state
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Glad to see the Australian government on board. Massive milestone today with Bowen acknowledging EV growth is already offsetting the oil crisis. Increasing reserves while demand falls makes no sense.

Now for a solar carport mandate!

Charge baby charge. ☀️⚡ #Bettrification #EVs

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.

The entire American conservative MAGA “movement” has been a Russian funded op the entire time. Follow the money. It’s a straight line from Putin to CPAC.

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Cartoon by David Rowe @rowecartoon.bsky.social

The MAGA Civil War Is Just Getting Started Trump is fighting a growing list of right-wing pundits and influencers who are critical of the Iran war—and who are playing a long game.

It’s not 2016 anymore. It’s not even 2024. Trump is weak, and opportunists on the right are betting against his administration. trib.al/oYRbztl

Trump's strait blockade has two immediate implications for the world and China Donald Trump's planned United States naval blockade of Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz reveals the president once again playing loose with the fortunes of financial markets and the global econ...

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How Hungary’s Child Sex Abuse Scandal Contributed To Orban’s Downfall Peter Magyar’s Tisza, which scored a landslide win over Viktor Orban's Fidesz, shot to prominence following a controversial presidential pardon in a child sex abuse case.

Peter Magyar’s Tisza, which scored a landslide win over Viktor Orban's Fidesz, shot to prominence following a controversial presidential pardon in a child sex abuse case.

As Artemis II is celebrated, the world faces hard questions about US leadership in space

The US disregards international law on Earth. Is that what we want on the Moon?

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

This win by Peter Magyar is far better than most imagined.

Particularly because Orban conceded so quickly.

But the real question is - does he have a super-majority? Because if so... that revolutionises what he can do.

And Trump & Putin are the big losers from this. Here's why. 👇

22 People Connected To Jeffrey Epstein Have Died Under Mysterious Circumstances - uInterview "There were a lot of people entrapped and entangled through Epstein’s web, and many of those people are gone now - dead," private investigator Ed Opperman tells the National Enquirer earlier this week...

22 People Connected To Jeffrey Epstein Have Died Under Mysterious Circumstances
Article from August 16, 2025
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Israel's minister of defence, Israel Katz, has called for the destruction of "all houses" in Lebanese border villages "in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza.
The IDF destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah in south Gaza.
#HolocaustNeverAgainEh?

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

@rowecartoon.bsky.social

By David Rowe.

What Israel is doing to Lebanon is obscene, carpet bombing civilians, massacring people in their hundreds, total disregard for human life. Truly plumbing the depths of evil. The single greatest source of violence and instability in the region and it's not even close.

BREAKING: Netanyahu jubilant as ceasefire talks with Iran collapse just before his corruption trial was set to resume. Thousands more innocent people get to die so he can postpone his imprisonment ♥️

A mass murderer

Impeach, Arrest And Imprison The
Entire Regime, And Those That Don't Cooperate.......

He’s also indicating he expects to be dethroned

The world's 20 richest people gained $90 billion after US-Iran ceasefire sparks relief rally in stocks Mark Zuckerberg grew about $13 billion richer in one day as buzz over Meta's new AI model combined with the relief rally after the US-Iran ceasefire.

I've long suspected that Trump uses TACO to get his friends richer.

Last month, about 10 minutes before Trump announced his ceasefire with Iran, an unidentified entity bought $1.5 billion in futures.

The same thing happened when he lifted tariffs last year

www.businessinsider.com/richest-peop...

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