This is exactly my thinking (and it was the same with all the announcements of new nuclear reactors in the 2000s) unless people are putting their own money in, it doesn’t exist. #datacenters #datafarms
#DominionEnergy#PJM #DataFarms #FirstEnergy
#HighEnergyBills.
@dominionenergy.bsky.social
I just received the worst electric bill on this house since 1991 when we got our occupancy permit.
I’m a Dominion Retiree.
Funny how our pensions didn’t go up enough to cover these rate increases.
They are building an even bigger plagiarism machine. 👀💻 #ai #datafarms
"For example, I think Google [NZ] pays out about 95-97% of all the revenue that it earns [in "service fees" to the parent company] ... and FaceBook would be very similar, Uber would be. The percentages vary, but it's most of it, in most cases."
#NickMiller, Tax Justice Aotearoa, 2025 […]
"As we become aware as a public we're putting pressure on our democratic institutions. We need new law, we need new regulatory regimes that interrupt and outlaw the key mechanisms of surveillance capitalism. Including the very principles of taking human experience unilaterally and turning it […]
"Maybe we should stop conversing in the billionaire machine where they make money out of our arguments ... Data is the new f'ckn oil. Like, where are these people getting their money from? Our behaviour. They're mining our behaviour like oil."
#BlindBoy Boathouse, 2025 […]
The fight against data farms vs real farms is beginning in #Virginia. #techsky #datafarms #econsky
A grassroots fight against data centers builds in rural Pittsylvania County cardinalnews.org/2025/04/14/a...
"The universe of firms could be limited to the largest social media companies, such as Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. Perhaps it could also be extended to other large technology companies, such as Amazon or Apple, or other critical companies in the internet stack." […]
"Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are structured around a social graph in which users follow and are followed by other users. In turn, the content we see depends on what’s shared in our network."
#ZeveSanderson, #SolomonMessing,
#JoshuaATucker, 2024 […]
Soon the countryside will be #solarfarms #datafarms & real estate as farmer's sell off to recover from govt cuts. Let's remember 'pastoral' doesn't mean mindless, self-centred flaneury, but on the ground with the de-urbanised, queer & very real visceral movement towards awareness of nature.
Thinking about this some more, the story I tend to tell about moving from the DataFarms to the fediverse is a political-economic one. About who's in control of the social web - and the development of digital tech in general - and who gets to make money from it.
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#fediverse #DataFarms […]