Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
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An interactive map tracking data center construction and AI policy, built by Isabelle Reksopuro. When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn't initially know what to believe. "There's a lot of misinformation about data centers," she said. "Google has denied taking that land." Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state border, sought to reclaim that land, "and Google is just a big, unnamed power user." The city had in fact asked for ownership of a 150-acre portion of Mount Hood National Forest, claiming it needs access to Mount Hood's watershed to meet municipal needs as its population - 16,010 as of the 2020 census - … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read full articleTown’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just seven percent said they were "strongly" in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data center - even at its peak, opposition to nuclear power plant construction topped out at 63 percent. Gallup's data is based on a March 2026 survey of 1,000 randomly-selected American adults in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia, along with an April 2026 survey of 2,054 adults "who are members of the Gallup Panel." … Read the full story at The Verge.
The post OpenAI Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Data Sharing With Meta and Google appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A class action filed in California federal court accuses OpenAI of disclosing private ChatGPT user data to Meta and Google. The complaint says the company used embedded tracking technology without consumer consent. The lawsuit covers United States residents who entered queries on ChatGPT.com. It argues that OpenAI funneled personal questions and account details to two firms whose advertising networks reach billions of people each day. What The Complaint Alleges The filing centers on tracking technology that Meta and Google supply to website operators for analytics and ad targeting. According to the complaint, OpenAI embedded that code into its ChatGPT site and allowed it to transmit user information automatically. The plaintiffs say the disclosed data included query topics, account identifiers, and email addresses tied to individual users. The case argues that
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, tech giants like Google and Amazon, and a few names that don’t commonly show up in the lists.
The post Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. For years, the cybersecurity industry has warned that AI would eventually be weaponized by hackers. That theoretical future just became the present. Google’s threat intelligence team has identified what it describes as likely the first documented case of cybercriminals using a large language model to discover and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the wild. The target: a flaw in a widely used open-source system administration tool that allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication. What happened The vulnerability was found in a Python script within a popular open-source login platform. Attackers identified a flaw that, when exploited, could circumvent the 2FA protections that millions of users and organizations rely on as a critical second layer of security. Here’s what makes this case different from every previous cyberattack. The exploit code itself appears to have been gene
AI-assisted hacking could significantly increase the frequency and scale of cyberattacks, challenging current cybersecurity defenses. The post Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Data centers' closed loop cooling systems promise significant water savings and energy efficiency improvements. The post Asher Genoot: AI demand is just beginning, Honeydade’s multi-technology infrastructure strategy, and the role of data centers in reducing energy prices | The Pomp Podcast appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Well, hell’s bells: It’s finally happening. After years of misguided rumors and off-base expectations — over a decade’s worth, even! — Google is actually now on the brink of combining Android and ChromeOS into a single superpowered platform for laptops and mobile devices alike. The company officially announced the advent of an entirely new type of product called the Googlebook as part of its pre-Google-I/O “Android Show” event on Tuesday. According to Google, the Googlebook is “a new category of laptops” that brings together Chrome, the Google Play ecosystem of apps, and “a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence” (a fancy way to say “there’ll be lots of Gemini AI this-and-thats”). At their core, Googlebooks appear to sport an interface that’s somewhere between Android as we know it and ChromeOS — with echoes of the 2010-era large-screen-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb era — to create what Google seemingly now sees as the future of the laptop experience. In a lot of ways, Goog