Nathan Taft

New report: Household upgrades could offset all new projected data center energy demand | Rewiring America Our report, Homegrown Energy, finds household upgrades are the best, fastest solution for increasing energy demand.

Check out @rewiringamerica.bsky.social's paper on this idea here: www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

Having hyperscalers pay for people's home energy efficiency upgrades sounds like a fantasy – but actually makes a lot of sense.

It would free up energy on the grid significantly faster than building new power plants, lower people's energy bills, and reduce climate pollution.

That's a win-win-win.

Is your bank on the list? 👀

The turnout was huge. The vibes were immaculate. Orange County, California says #NoKings

Photo of climate protesters marching at New York City Climate Week, with Nathan Taft, Senior Digital Campaigner at Stand.earth, visible in the foreground holding a banner that reads “Microsoft’s AI Pollutes” with Microsoft’s logo and Stand.earth’s logo and the text “stand.earth/Microsoft”. Photo credit reads “Photo: Jun-Ting Zhou” in bottom left corner of image.

Photo of climate protesters marching at New York City Climate week, with Rachel Kitchin, Corporate Campaigner and Nathan Taft, Senior Digital Campaigner of Stand.earth chatting with a fellow protester as they hold a red banner that reads “NO DATA CENTERS FOR BILLIONAIRES”. Photo credit reads “Photo: Jun-Ting Zhou” in bottom left corner of image.

1 / Members of Stand's Big Tech campaign kicked off #ClimateWeekNYC over the weekend by rallying as part of a coalition of local and national organizations speaking out against data center pollution as harm. 🧵

Photos c/o Jun-Ting Zhou.

I'm a co-author on this report – please check it out 🙏

It Is Genocide » Senator Bernie Sanders Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend...

He's right. What started as a war of self defense in the wake of the atrocities of Oct 7th has turned into a genocide. It must stop.
www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/it-is...

What an image
(J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

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The situation in Gaza is horrific and untenable.

Allow in humanitarian aid.
End the war.
Release the hostages.

And while you're at replace the leadership of both peoples with folks who believe in a future where Palestinians and Israels can live side by side in peace.

Costs for gas are going up, costs for solar+storage are going down (battery tech costs went down 40% last year), it really isn't complicated

Not to mention for all their talk of needing immediate buildout, new renewables can come online way faster than new gas

That big tech companies aren't prioritizing solar+storage for data center buildout is such a big miss on future-proofing that it borders on malpractice

🚨🚨BREAKING: A new Morning Consult poll finds an overwhelming 80% of Prime members want Amazon to take stronger action to cut emissions from its delivery and transportation operations. 🧵

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Several hundred people have turned out (in the heat on the middle of a Tuesday!) at Rep. Young Kim's office in Anaheim to urge her to vote no on this dangerous budget bill.

There's lots to be concerned about with AI and how it's going to impact our society and lots of schools of thought on how to address those problem.

One issue that where there's a straightforward solution though? Making sure AI data centers run on renewable energy.

Tech giants’ net zero goals verging on fantasy: researchers - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Tech giants set ambitious climate goals. The growth of the AI industry is making those pledges look less and less achievable. Something has to change.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2025/06/29/2003839409

Nothing to see here, just the world's richest man adding dozens of unregulated fossil fuel generators to a Black community that already suffers extreme rates of pollution in order to power an AI supercomputer that spreads white supremacist conspiracy theories 🙃

If the federal government isn't going to act to protect our communities, the very least it could do is get out of the way and allow states and local governments do their job.

If you have a chance, please call your Senators and urge them to oppose this provision (specifically Section 43201(c)).

Beyond obvious end use abuse like AI making adverse and biased healthcare decision and victimizing people with deepfakes, there's also the impact AI data centers are having in local communities.

Increased fossil fuel pollution, higher electricity rates, depleting water resources, the list goes on.

In the absence of federal action, state laws are one of the last defenses we have to try and ensure this new technology isn't abused (any more than it already is).

Amidst the firestorm of terrible news flying around, something deeply nefarious is slipping under the radar.

Specifically, a provision in the #BigBeautifulBill 🙄 that would *prohibit states from regulating AI.*

It's hard to overstate how dangerous this is.

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.”

So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…

It was always a lie.

Just unconscionable that anyone, let alone a sitting Senator, would make jokes and spread misinformation about a cold-blooded murder

There were more people at the No Kings protest in Boise, Idaho

Great turnout at the #NoKings rally in South Orange County today. People are pissed, but also full of hope and joy. Our community won't tolerate attacks on immigrants or democracy.

Trump's Big Bill Would Let Him Expand His L.A. Immigration Crackdown 'Everywhere' The “Big Beautiful Bill” would give $75 billion to ICE, and allow Trump to carry out militarized immigration raids in “d

One aspect of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that isn't getting enough attention? 

It would give ICE tens of billions in additional funding to conduct more violent raids and abductions across the country.

A big, ugly, authoritarian nightmare.

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

If you weren't planning on it already, find and attend a No Kings protest this Saturday. We need to say loud and clear that what is going on right now is not okay.

www.nokings.org

If you know folks in the immigrant community reach out. If you can do so safely, publicly speak out.

We CANNOT abandon our immigrant brothers and sisters right now while they are being harassed and kidnapped by masked, extrajudicial thugs.

She wants to "liberate" a US city from its duly elected officials. Let's be clear how dangerous this rhetoric and the actions being taken are