Amazon Employees for Climate Justice

This...seems a little troubling.

YouTube video by AP Archive Trump's AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here's how it may affect energy in the U.S.

Trump's "AI Action Plan" calls for building data centers fast by weakening environmental safeguards and ramping up fossil fuels. 💻

@amandadsmith.bsky.social explains that if left unchecked, consumers could be left footing the bill and bearing the environmental consequences. @apnews.com
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“Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.”

Actual language from Trump's plan: "We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma."

Translation: we know this will cause climate change. We don't care.

Again, we knew all of this was likely. But the details are truly: masks off. These people mean to pillage the world for AI.

And finally, the real kickers: "Expedite environmental permitting by streamlining or reducing regulations...Make Federal lands available for data center construction and the construction of power generation infrastructure for those data centers."

Because...ecosystems are too healthy, apparently.

They also plan to "revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, & climate change."

Telling mix of very bad things (misinfo, climate change) they pretend aren't bad, & very good things they pretend are bad (DEI). Just delete!

Actual language from Trump's plan: "We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma."

Translation: we know this will cause climate change. We don't care.

Trump unveiled the AI Action Plan today, and it’s just as bad as we feared—maybe even worse.

Remember the 10-year moratorium on regulation that got taken out of the budget bill? Some folks think this is even worse: 🧵

None of this is a surprise—David Sacks, Trump’s science/tech adviser, said AI regulation is “trying to control the tide”. But he’s wrong: implementing something powerful & new at a pace necessary to safeguard human life, privacy, & the stability of life on Earth is…precisely the job of government.

Trump administration's deep cuts to public health leave system reeling Public health leaders said the cuts are reducing the entire system to a shadow of what it once was, threatening to undermine even routine work at a time when the nation faces the deadliest measles out...

And: “the plan also discusses fostering science and research around AI development, investing in biosecurity as AI is used to find new cures for diseases,”...so that’s their plan, now that they've cut funding from federal & local public health agencies, including the CDC, NIH, & NSF: AI.

The same article says “The Trump administration wants to create a “‘try-first’ culture for AI across American industry,” which includes “aggressive” use of untested AI in the military: if that isn’t a tragedy waiting to happen, we don’t know what is.

Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything The White House wants to slash red tape it sees as standing in the way of innovation.

According to The Verge, “the plan also suggests cutting rules that slow building data centers and semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and expanding the power grid to support “energy-intensive industries of the future.”

What rules? Environmental rules, of course.

It also has a “commitment to eliminating ideological bias and social engineering from federally supported AI tools”--we know what that means: the government will be telling companies what their AI’s can say, in a witch hunt for “woke”, despite the fact that:

Trump unveiled the AI Action Plan today, and it’s just as bad as we feared—maybe even worse.

Remember the 10-year moratorium on regulation that got taken out of the budget bill? Some folks think this is even worse: 🧵

There's a lot of commentary about the zombie moratorium that's come back in the AI action plan. I just want to point out that this is much worse than the provision in the bill, because it lets agencies make opaque decisions about what constitutes a limit on AI with no clear guidelines at all. 1/2

People's AI Action Plan

The White House released its AI Action plan this morning. We know where it came from: straight from Big Tech. But there’s another path available to us: we and over 100 other orgs called for a People’s AI Action Plan. Read it here: peoplesaiaction.com
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AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill • Washington State Standard Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage,...

Just out yesterday: “Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage”

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People's AI Action Plan

Stay tuned—and if you're an org, make sure to sign on to peoplesaiaction.com so that we can fight back together, and make sure this pivot point of history lands us in a future where we all can thrive, not one exclusively for oil barons and oligarchs.

Trump's Plan is expected to direct the National Institute of Standards & Technology to revise its AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate “references to DEI, misinformation, and climate change”.

In other words: discrimination, misinformation, and pollution are welcome!

Tomorrow, Trump will sign several EO’s on AI, including the "AI Action Plan". They are....not good.

While setting the stage for federal land giveaways and air & water pollution, they also penalize states that put safeguards in place.

So we signed the PEOPLE'S AI Action Plan. 🧵

ICYMI...a little Saturday reading to get you really riled about what Amazon's doing to our world.

Amazon’s emissions increased 6% as the company builds more data centers to power AI Increased AI use has ended the company’s downward trend of emissions—and employees say the official numbers aren't telling the whole story.

In 2019, Amazon pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. Instead, its emissions *increased* by 33% over the next 5 years 💀 www.fastcompany.com/91370175/ama...

ICYMI! Super, super important to understand what Amazon (and the other big tech co's) are up to right now, because it's devastating.

What Is Up With These Tech Billionaires? This Astrophysicist Has Answers In his new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker probes the technocrat worldview

"What Sam Altman is saying is that his plan for solving global warming is to build a machine that nobody knows how to build and can’t even define and then ask it for three wishes.... it’s really, really easy to believe stuff that makes you rich."

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In Ohio, Amazon’s primary provider is American Electric Power (AEP). 67% of AEP’s power is generated by coal—and in May, AEP Ohio received regulatory approval to deploy on-site electricity generation from gas for one of Amazon’s data centers in central Ohio. That, too…wasn’t in the Climate Pledge.

Virginia hosts the largest concentration of data centers in the world, including nearly 100 Amazon data centers and counting. 55% of Virginia's total in-state electricity net generation comes from natural gas, 32% from nuclear power, 12% from renewables, and 2% from coal.

Nearly 3/4 of Amazon’s data centers are located in Virginia and Ohio, and Amazon intends to build its largest data center operation to date in Indiana. Local utilities in these states are planning to meet projected energy demands from Amazon’s data centers by building....new fossil fuel plants.

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says.

Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.