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NEW: Elon Musk made direct appeals to President Trump to reverse his sweeping new tariffs, going around Peter Navarro, the WH trade official he criticized over the weekend. Musk and Tesla have long opposed tariffs. Story: Lizza Dwoskin, @pranshuverma.bsky.social Trisha Thadani and me wapo.st/4j9Jxpl
08.04.2025 00:00 — 👍 64 🔁 25 💬 15 📌 5If you are a Tesla worker that wants to quit your job at a dealership because it's becoming too dangerous, please reach me on Signal at @pverma.50
10.03.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new: Anger at Elon Musk is turning violent. People are burning his cars and shooting his stores, leaving frontline Tesla workers and ordinary vehicle owners to bear the brunt of the anger incited by Musk's politics. w/ Trisha Thadani
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A blind man criticized DOGE on Capitol Hill last week, and Elon Musk responded as he so often does -- by siccing his mob on the man, with a tweet that got 21 million views.
Excellent reporting, via @pranshuverma.bsky.social / Washpost
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some personal news: Thrilled to be The Washington Post's next New Delhi bureau chief: www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/01/2...
29.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
From @washingtonpost.com story on Musk's "Nazi-style salute": It’s seen by neo-Nazis "as a legitimation, a normalization … a direct validation of their beliefs" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @pranshuverma.bsky.social @byelliesilverman.bsky.social @pietsch.bsky.social
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As data centers cause America to run out of power, Arizona is emblematic of the sacrifices ordinary people face to fuel the boom.
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Screenshot from Washington Post article, reading: "CAMERON, Ariz. — Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electric power, Thomasina Nez’s entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckets of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood-framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unrefrigerated produce rots quickly in the Arizona heat. It’s a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heater after its fumes killed her two dogs."
Screenshot from Washington Post article, reading: "Nationwide, concern is rising in local communities about the burgeoning data center industry, with residents complaining that the units bring little in the way of jobs or revenue while straining local resources, raising utility prices and forcing communities to return to outdated and environmentally suspect modes of electricity generation, including coal and natural gas. In drought-ridden Arizona, several towns have passed ordinances deterring tech companies from using water to cool the supercomputers that fuel the artificial intelligence revolution. That has forced the data centers to chill their warehouses with electricity, making the stress on the power grid especially intense, experts said."
Screenshot of the Washington Posr article, reading: "After a years-long courtship of Big Tech by local politicians, power companies and utility regulators eager for the promise of tax revenue and jobs, the strain on Arizona’s power grid is already apparent. Often, vulnerable communities are paying the price. While Nez and her neighbors lost a shot at getting power, the historically Black town of Randolph, almost 60 miles south of Phoenix, faces the expansion of a massive natural gas plant that emits particulate matter linked to asthma and lung cancer."
Excellent reporting about how Big Tech's insatiable desire for AI data is sapping electricity from power grids, leaving many people without basic services or dealing with the fallout from environmentally destructive power plants.
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Arizona is hiking power rates to support the state’s data center boom — while leaving Navajo residents who have NO electricity to take cold showers in the dark www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
23.12.2024 16:40 — 👍 102 🔁 51 💬 8 📌 7
Read the entire article here on how AI is exacerbating existing issues re access to electricity in Arizona. This is only going to get worse, unless we stop pretending that AI has no downsides and also MUST be incorporated into every aspect of our lives.
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In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power. Altho power lines sit near their homes, many Navajo Nation members have been without power for decades.
By Pranshu Verma
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new: Amid Arizona's AI fueled data center boom, thousands of Native Americans still live without power. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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