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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech (Big Tech data-centers are increasing fossil fuel use and GHGs, while the executives are making prophecies that “AI will fix it")

The articles on how over 90% of enterprise doesn't reach their return-on-investment goals with new AI models because their devs have to fix bugs and loops causing more token spend due to those developers "not constructing the correct prompts" is hilarious. Full on blame shift away from the AI providers and the underlying point. "Its a skill issue"..."Its a tooling issue"... While there can be issues with training when it comes to this... It has nothing to do with the new models using more internal reasoning tokens and increasing extended loops when it comes to unknown edge cases? There's a bottleneck and these enterprises, which already haven't proven ROI from AI models, aren't using new models due to these vast valleys in token overuse. If anything they're focusing on using free and open source models for a large majority of the work with cascading logic to bypass token spend. Which doesn't look good for further investment into new models if the majority of enterprise tasks simply do not require super compute models...and future valuations for these models therefor hits a financial wall. Compound that with the circular nature of keeping these AI companies afloat....yeah.... The more I research, the more I go...."wtf is happening here".... @mttaggart@infosec.exchange#ai #noai #tech #openai #anthropic #xai

CBS NEWS(max) IN MEMPHIS: “It sounds like there’s a jet plane coming towards me. I can understand why residents are losing sleep over this.” #XAI @memphisvsmusk @nonewdatacenters Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUXSkFJH/

@jcrabapple@dmv.community You mentioned training but you did not give details on your machine learning setup. Sadly, explainable AI is not the norm these days. #XAI

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 推出 主打局部編輯及多圖參考功能 Elon Musk 旗下 xAI 今日（8 月 8 日）以 SpaceXAI 名義發布網誌，宣布推出 Imag […] #人工智能 #應用軟件 #AI繪圖 #GPT-Image-2 https://unwire.hk/2026/08/08/grok-imagine-image-2-launch/ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grok-imagine-image-2-launch

xAI Grok Build Uploaded Entire Git Repos to Cloud Storage 🔗 https://cybersecurefox.com/en/xai-grok-build-git-repository-upload-incident #xai #grok #build #git #repository #upload #source #code #privacy #secrets #exposure #google #cloud #storage

#Mississippi homeowners blame a noisy #DataCenter plant for sleepless nights. The mayor's advice? "Consider selling." By Lauren Fichten, July 16, 2026 "It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday and 46-year-old Jason Haley was once again wide awake. "The suburban silence that Haley had grown used to in his two decades as a resident of #SouthavenMS, had, for the last few months, been replaced by a constant whirring, like an airplane hovering over his home, he said. "The noise keeping Haley awake was coming from a plant powering #ElonMusk's #xAI #datacenters in the area, according to a lawsuit filed in June against the company and its subsidiary, #MZXTech. Haley and two other #Southaven residents, who live within a mile of the plant, allege in the suit that 'near-constant' noise and vibrations are causing negative physical and psychological health effects. "The filing comes amid growing #resistance toward data center development, with the majority of Americans opposing local construction of a data center, according to a Gallup poll published earlier this year. "Similar disputes are playing out across the country, like in #MountPleasantWI, where a lawsuit this month filed by residents alleges a data center emits 'unreasonable and excessive noise' onto residents' properties and in #LowellMA [a city with a large #Latino population -- #EnvironmentalRacism], where noise from a data center's cooling center 'disrupts neighbors' sleep,' according to an April suit. "There are more than 4,000 data centers in the U.S., according to a recent United Nations report. To power the data centers, developers are building their own plants, sometimes with little warning to residents like Haley. "Haley reached out to Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite about the noise in emails he shared with CBS News. In one last November, he urged Musselwhite to drive through the neighborhood 'and take a listen to the constant #HighPitch noises.' " " 'I am aware of the noise and working on a solution with xAI officials,' Musselwhite had responded to Haley an hour later. 'It is a problem,' he said in another email later in the day. "But soon, another sleepless night rolled around and Haley was emailing the mayor again. ""Anyone else I can reach out to?" Haley wrote to Musselwhite. "It's almost 4 am and I can hear it from my bed. The high pitch and roaring combined is full force at this time. My ears are ringing. I can't live in this. How was this ever approved?" [In a later email, this was Musselwhite's response] "I know they want houses for employees, so you may want to consider selling your home." 😡 Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-elon-musk-xai-data-center-power-plant-noise/ #ElonSucks #BigDataSucks #NoisePollution #BigData #CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #USPol #AISucks #DatacenterMoratorium #AIDatacenters #EnvironmentalRacism #PreyingOnThePoor #EnergyVampires #ResistAI

CounterPunch.org | The Troubling Precedent of Federal Immunity for Corporate Pollution by Matt Sedlar AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article reports that the Department of Justice has asked a federal court to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over its “Colossus” gas‑turbine plant, arguing that the turbines are essential for data centers that run the AI tool Grok—deemed critical to U.S. military operations in Iran—and that federal policy, national‑security interests, and the public‑interest outweigh local environmental concerns, even asserting that citizens lack standing to sue under the Clean Air Act. The case stems from complaints by residents of Memphis’s predominantly Black Boxtown neighborhood, who say the methane‑burning turbines emit nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and carbon monoxide linked to asthma, heart disease and cancer, with measured pollutant levels rising sharply after the plant’s installation. The DOJ’s stance mirrors a recent Supreme Court ruling in Plaquemines v. Chevron, which framed corporate environmental liabilities as federal matters when tied to government contracts, potentially granting corporations a special shield that weakens local regulatory power. The article warns that such precedents could erode community protections against corporate pollution unless state regulators or a more environmentally focused administration intervene. Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/29/the-troubling-precedent-of-federal-immunity-for-corporate-pollution/ #ElonMusk #xAI #NAACP #EPA #environment

This morning before heading to the store, I cleaned my car windows. After I got home, it poured down rain for a couple hours. I just wiped the windows again, to prevent water spots, and the clean cloth came back covered in this black gunk. Black gunk that had to come from the rain. #Memphis #xAI #turbine #pollution?

Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Lie Is Finally Collapsing - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYobECzM2ho #AI #xAI #Grok #SpaceX #Musk #Trillionaire #Business #Capitalism

bing news | Bill Ackman Reveals "Important Cornerstone" of SpaceX's Value That Will Surprise Many AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Bill Ackman has been sounding an alarm about investors’ current obsession with “new‑new” stocks like SpaceX, whose $2 trillion‑plus IPO has drawn feverish attention and driven prices to staggering levels; he argues that this hype may eclipse the more modest but fundamentally solid “old‑school” quality stocks, including the Magnificent Seven, and cautions that the premium placed on novelty could fade as investors recognize the enduring value of established companies. Ackman points out that SpaceX’s massive market cap gives it strategic advantages, such as executing huge all‑stock deals (e.g., the $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor) and leveraging its AI arm xAI for synergistic growth, suggesting that while the firm could continue to climb toward even higher valuations, the buzz may eventually settle as the market balances excitement for new ventures against the proven worth of traditional, high‑quality equities. Read more: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/06/18/bill-ackman-reveals-important-cornerstone-of-spacexs-value-that-will-surprise-many/ #BillAckman #PershingSquare #SpaceX #Cursor #xAI

CounterPunch.org | AI is a Public Resource: You Should Own Half of It by Bernie Sanders AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Bernie Sanders argues that artificial intelligence—foreseen as the most transformative technology in history—will reshape every aspect of society, from the economy and democracy to health, the environment, and education, and that its impact is inevitable; the real question, he says, is who will own and control that future. He stresses that AI is built on the collective knowledge, creativity, and data of generations of people—books, songs, art, journalism, code, research, conversations, images, and ideas—yet the tech elite have appropriated this work without permission or compensation. To prevent a handful of billionaires from monopolizing the benefits, Sanders proposes an “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act,” which would impose a one‑time 50 percent tax in the form of stock ownership in the largest U.S. AI companies, creating a public sovereign wealth fund so that the wealth generated by AI is shared by all rather than concentrated in a few corporate moguls. Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/08/ai-is-a-public-resource-you-should-own-half-of-it/ #BernieSanders #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #SiliconValley #SamAltman #ElonMusk #DarioAmodei

NBC News Top Stories | SpaceX aims to make its stock market debut at $1.77 trillion value by Steve Kopack AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. SpaceX filed to go public next week, proposing to sell more than 555 million shares at a fixed $135 each, which would raise roughly $75 billion and value the company at about $1.77 trillion—enough to make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillion‑dollar individual and give him roughly 82.4 % of the voting power. The proceeds are slated for further investments across SpaceX’s expanding portfolio, including its recent acquisition of Musk’s AI venture xAI and the social network X. At that valuation, SpaceX would become the seventh‑largest publicly traded company worldwide and Musk’s second trillion‑dollar firm after Tesla. The IPO’s pricing is unusual in that it offers a single fixed price rather than a range, relying on Musk’s global profile to attract investors across platforms such as Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, SoFi and E*Trade. Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/spacex-ipo-valuation-elon-musk-rcna348287 #SpaceX #ElonMusk #xAI #Nasdaq #Tesla

US Top News and Analysis | SpaceX sets aside up to 5% of shares in IPO for certain employees and friends AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. SpaceX has set aside up to 5 % of the shares in its upcoming initial public offering for a “direct share program” that will allow selected employees, customers and friends to purchase stock without lock‑up restrictions, according to an amended filing. The company, valued earlier this year at about $1.25 trillion after Elon Musk merged it with his AI startup xAI, hopes the IPO will raise roughly $75 billion, potentially debuting on the Nasdaq as early as June 12 with Morgan Stanley handling the direct‑share allocation and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley serving as lead underwriters. The filing also details a lucrative yet terminable cloud‑computing deal with AI firm Anthropic, which pays SpaceX up to $1.25 billion per month through May 2029. This approach mirrors similar programs used by firms such as Airbnb, Uber, Rivian and Tesla in past IPOs, giving select insiders benefits traditionally reserved for large money managers. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/spacex-sets-aside-up-to-5percent-of-shares-in-ipo-for-employees-and-friends.html #SpaceX #ElonMusk #xAI #MorganStanley #GoldmanSachs

Observer | Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO Is Really the Public Debut of His Lifelong ‘X’ Ambition by Sissi Cao AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. El Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for a Nasdaq IPO that will bundle his rocket‑building, Starlink satellite internet, xAI artificial‑intelligence venture, and the rebranded X social platform into a single $1.75 trillion conglomerate, marking the public debut of his long‑standing “X” ambition. The move traces back to Musk’s 1999 creation of the online bank X.com, which later merged into PayPal before he reclaimed the domain in 2017. Over the years, his vision of a unified ecosystem of finance, social media, commerce and communication has unfolded through acquisitions such as Twitter (now X) and the integration of Starlink and xAI. The IPO therefore represents not just a rocket company going public but the culmination of Musk’s decades‑old plan to merge all of his flagship businesses under the X brand. Read more: https://observer.com/2026/05/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-x-superapp-ambition/ #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Starlink #xAI #XCorp

yahoo news | Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a leaked audio recording released by the worker‑advocacy group More Perfect Union, said Meta plans to monitor employees’ keystrokes, mouse clicks and screenshots to feed vast amounts of usage data into its AI models, arguing that watching “very smart” staff use computers will give the company a decisive advantage in the fiercely competitive AI race. He insisted the collected content would be stripped of personal details and not used for performance assessments, although European staff would be exempt under GDPR. The revelation was published the same day Meta announced 8,000 job cuts and mirrors similar internal‑data‑collection efforts by other tech giants such as Microsoft and OpenAI. Read more: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/22/zuck-defends-monitoring-employees-to-win-ai-race-in-purported-leaked-audio/5245379 #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #EU #Microsoft #xAI #ElonMusk

qwant news | Why Anthropic Is Now Paying Its Biggest Competitor $1.25B A Month - Gadget Review AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Anthropic has struck a massive deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, agreeing to pay $1.25 billion each month through May 2029 for access to over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs housed in SpaceX’s Colossus I and II data centers—a commitment that totals roughly $15 billion a year. The arrangement, announced in May 2026, removes the five‑hour rate limits and code‑generation caps that previously constrained paying Claude subscribers, giving them essentially unlimited compute power. By renting this infrastructure, Anthropic sidesteps the lengthy process of building its own GPU farms, even though the data centers were originally built for Musk’s competing AI venture, xAI. The deal highlights the precarious nature of the AI compute market, where soaring demand and GPU shortages force even leading AI firms to rely on costly, rival‑owned resources, underscoring both the scale of the AI boom and the fragility of its underlying hardware supply chain. Read more: https://www.gadgetreview.com/why-anthropic-is-now-paying-its-biggest-competitor-1-25b-a-month #Anthropic #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Nvidia #xAI

CounterPunch.org | Mirrors of Greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the Tech Brat Battle by Binoy Kampmark AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article “Mirrors of Greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the Tech Brat Battle” recounts Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, in which he alleged that CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman misled him into investing $44 million by promising a non‑profit, humanity‑focused AI mission that was later abandoned in favor of a for‑profit structure and a $10 billion Microsoft partnership. A jury in Oakland dismissed the case on statute‑of‑limitations grounds, leaving only untested claims of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment. The piece highlights the broader clash between profit‑driven AI development and the original altruistic ideals, noting Musk’s own xAI and SpaceX ventures facing regulatory scrutiny, and suggests the ruling may reassure investors while underscoring the precarious balance of safety, ethics, and commercial interests in the rapidly evolving AI industry. Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/mirrors-of-greed-elon-musk-openai-and-the-tech-brat-battle/ #ElonMusk #OpenAI #SamAltman #Microsoft #xAI #GregBrockman #IlyaSutskever #YvonneGonzalezRogers

Business Latest | SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers by Paresh Dave AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. SpaceX has committed over $2.8 billion to purchase portable gas turbines that will power the data centers supporting Elon Musk’s AI unit, xAI, amid a nationwide electricity shortage that is constraining the data‑center boom. The turbines will supply the Colossus 1 (Memphis, TN) and Colossus 2 (Southaven, MS) facilities, which together already consume about 1 GW—roughly the power usage of a large U.S. city—and are being leased to Anthropic for $15 billion a year. While the turbines offer a quick, grid‑independent solution, their use has drawn public complaints, lawsuits, and regulatory scrutiny over carbon emissions and permit compliance. The spending details appear in SpaceX’s IPO prospectus as the company prepares for a Nasdaq debut, revealing prior agreements for $805 million in turbines through 2029 and a pending $2 billion deal for additional mobile units, bringing the total portable turbine count to 46. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-spacex-spending-gas-turbines-grok/ #SpaceX #ElonMusk #xAI #Colossus1 #Colossus2

English – The Conversation | When AI giants go public, will ordinary investors know if they are along for the ride? by Sara Ali, Research Fellow and Academic Database Advisor, Auckland University of Technology AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article explains that as major AI firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI prepare for public listings, ordinary investors are likely to acquire shares in them indirectly through retirement funds, pensions and other index‑tracked investments, even if they never choose to buy the stocks themselves. It highlights the huge scale of AI spending—billions on computing power and infrastructure—and the rapid influx of capital that has already outpaced a full year’s investment in a single quarter. Index providers are also revising rules to fast‑track newly listed “mega‑cap” AI companies into benchmarks, meaning passive money could flow into these firms almost immediately. The piece urges investors to question fund managers about the efficiency, governance and ethical implications of these AI giants, and calls for a decision on whether people should be automatically swept into the AI “gamble” or given a genuine choice. Read more: https://theconversation.com/when-ai-giants-go-public-will-ordinary-investors-know-if-they-are-along-for-the-ride-282963 #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #Nasdaq100 #SP500 #ElonMusk