Week 46: Data Centers Outpace Oil, AI Hikes Your Power Bill, Robots Fire Human
THE SHADOW STACK
Every shiny new technology is built on a foundation we’re not meant to see. This week, the ground started to shake, revealing the immense and often unsettling shadow stack — the hidden layers of energy, capital, and data — that powers the AI boom. As the true costs of this revolution came into focus, the cracks in the infrastructure began to show.
THE PHYSICAL FOUNDATION CRACKS
Data Centers Outpace Oil as global investment in new digital infrastructure is projected to surpass spending on discovering new oil sources by $40 billion this year. AI Hikes Your Power Bill with the massive energy demands of data centers beginning to significantly impact residential electricity costs across the country.
THE DIGITAL FOUNDATION DEGRADES
OpenAI Violates Copyright Law after a German court ruled the company illegally trained its models on licensed musical works, ordering it to pay damages. Search Engine Fights AI Slop as Kagi Search launches “SlopStop,” a community-driven initiative to detect and filte…
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