Gerry McGovern

“This data center issue, at least for Michigan, is one that we aren’t necessarily prepared for in terms of zoning and planning,” Wixom City Councilmember Keenan Gottschall told Planet Detroit.

https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2026/03/22/wixom-weighs-data-center-ordinance-we-arent-necessarily-prepared/

"Several data centers are in regions where population growth and extreme weather events are already straining water supplies, such as Northern Virginia, which has the highest concentration of data centers in the world, with Texas on track to be the new leader by 2030. According to Bloomberg News, about two-thirds of data centers built since 2022 in the United States are in high-water stress areas, which can endanger local ecosystems and intensify water shortages."
https://www.phcppros.com/articles/23140-data-centers-are-expanding-fast-so-are-their-water-demands

The dry and barren fields of India, the desert areas, the fields struggling to give up a crop, they were transformed into nonstop engines of agriculture by cheap pumps powered by solar panels. As with the Ogallala Aquifer, though, the constant pumping meant that the watershed was retreating, the watershed was sinking, the watershed was shriveling and shivering and gasping.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/world-water-day-emergency/

Modern, scientific man has written women out of history

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/british-museum-samurai-women-warrior-myth-b2913476.html

The Viking Woman Warrior of Birka, Sweden
https://www.history-channel.org/a-viking-mystery-the-woman-warrior-of-birka/

Early Women Were Hunters, Not Just Gatherers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/

‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history
https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/

The sports where women outperform men
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men

Modern, scientific man has written women out of history

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/british-museum-samurai-women-warrior-myth-b2913476.html

The Viking Woman Warrior of Birka, Sweden
https://www.history-channel.org/a-viking-mystery-the-woman-warrior-of-birka/

Early Women Were Hunters, Not Just Gatherers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/

‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history
https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/

The sports where women outperform men
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men

Modern human happiness is unsustainable

Just in: Finland is the 2026 happiest country in the world. In 2025, Finland overshot it's allocation of earth's resources on April 1.

Most happy countries are hugely resource intense.

The exception is Costa Rica, at No 4, but in recent years it has significantly backtracked on its environmental standards.

The 2026 8th happiest country is Israel.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260317-the-worlds-happiest-countries-for-2026

https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

Time to rise up against AI. It's not too late

Is this product 'human-made'? The race to establish an AI-free logo

Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for "human-made" products and services as part of the growing backlash against AI use.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0d6el50ppo

"The guide wire felt wrong. My hands, trained over two decades and thousands of procedures, sensed a resistance the navigation screen denied. The system’s three-dimensional reconstruction, a confident render of the patient’s sinus anatomy, showed a clear path. My proprioception, however, suggested I was about to perforate bone. I paused, withdrew the instrument, and re-evaluated with conventional fluoroscopy. The screen had been mistaken."

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ai/the-ai-adverse-event-problem-nobody-is-talking-about/

In order to achieve our 'Green' Transition, we will need to mine more copper in the next 25 years than in all of previous history.

We will cause over 500 billion tons of toxic waste in the process. That's roughly three Mt Everests' of waste.

Not to mention the massive quantities of toxic wastewater and huge amounts of fossil fuel energy required to process.

Copper mining is among the most environmentally destructive forms of mining.

We label this ecocide green and clean and renewable

US military families face waves of AI videos meant to sow discord and tug at heartstrings

Fake videos of soldiers grieving over fallen friends and AI-generated combat scenes are reaching families of deployed U.S. troops.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/iran-war-misinformation-military-families/

AI is the destroyer of truth and the feeder of hate and fear. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do by Big Tech.

The Big Tech business model is hate and fear, and a world of barely functioning addicts that it will use to do its will.

"Women usually go back to work a day or two immediately after childbirth to earn a living in the landfills. They often leave their children with their other children of school-going age to take care of them (13-17 years). The moment the children are of age (13-17 years), they are expected to fend for themselves; as a result, they drop out of school and start working the gate at the landfills."

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/lead-exposure-from-e-waste-a-case-study-of-dandora-dumpsite-nairobi-kenya

Such an evil scam on so many levels

"The altcoin damage is even uglier. Ethereum fell to $2,025 from around $3,400. Solana went from $260 to $85. And Trump’s own memecoin, the Official Trump token that peaked near $73 just before he took office, now trades at $3, a 96% wipeout. The First Lady's coin has fared worse still, losing 99%."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/03/09/thank-you-mr-president-trump-oil-price-shock-crashes-bitcoin-price/

"More than 140 Indigenous people, led by the Middle Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement (MMIMX), have occupied the Brazilian federal Indigenous agency FUNAI’s regional office in the Amazonian city of Altamira to demand the suspension of Belo Sun’s mining license for its “Volta Grande” gold mine on the banks of the Xingu River."

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0311-amazonian-indigenous-women-occupy-federal-agency-to-demand-suspension-of-belo-sun-minings-license

20 ton of poisoned earth for one gold ring.

Thailand to send 284 tonnes of e-waste back to US

Containers found at Laem Chabang were falsely claimed to hold scrap metal from Haiti

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3213938/thailand-to-send-284-tonnes-of-ewaste-back-to-us

This happens all over the world. There is a growing e-waste crisis and the Global North solution is to dump e-waste in the Global South by mis-labelling and all sorts of other tricks. Often, e-waste is sent as "second hand" equipment. The whole tech industry is built on a growing cesspit of toxic waste.

"Enabled emissions are the additional greenhouse gases released when AI, IoT, and cloud computing make more fossil fuel production possible.
Fossil fuel companies use these tools to turn high-risk operations—fracking, offshore projects, deep reserves—into data-driven decisions, driving faster exploration and far greater fossil fuel output."

https://www.enabledemissions.com/

US Data Centers Could Require as Much Water as New York City by 2030, Study Shows

"Peak daily water demand—the amount required during the hottest days of the year—for a large state-of-the-art data center using evaporative cooling can often exceed 1 million gallons per day, and for some planned facilities it may reach 8 million gallons per day."

https://gizmodo.com/us-data-centers-could-require-as-much-water-as-new-york-city-by-2030-study-shows-2000730811

"With data centers in the mix, potentially contributing to air pollution, residents could feel health impacts if they live within five miles of the facility — maybe even 20 miles."

"Data centers can contribute to fine particulate matter, a type of air pollution composed of tiny microscopic droplets filled with toxic chemicals. Breathing this type of pollution can lead to respiratory issues, such as asthma, lung cancer and premature death."

https://mirrorindy.org/data-center-health-pollution-environment-impacts-indianapolis-marion-county/

Mining copper is environmentally devastating

In 1920, mining 1 ton of copper caused 30 ton of toxic waste

In 2020, mining 1 ton of copper caused 180 ton of toxic waste

Since 1900, the energy required to produce a unit of copper is up 16 fold.
The water required has doubled.

We need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years than in all of previous history.

In 2020, a data center might have used 5,000 tons of copper.

An AI data center can require up to 50,000 tons of copper

'Green'?

Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

"The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports. The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the unsuspecting rural community that Musk chose to build the data center in, can’t provide the electricity the facility needs."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-facility-mordor

Through relentless public pressure from communities, Microsoft has been forced to terminate non-disclosure agreements with four west Michigan communities where it is pursuing data center development, releasing municipal officials from their promise not to disclose details about its plans.

Classic 1984 speak:

"As part of Microsoft's commitment to work openly and constructively with the communities where we seek to operate, we have decided to terminate this agreement"

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/03/03/microsoft-terminates-nda-non-disclosure-confidentiality-michigan-data-centers/88949102007/

"Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives."

https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/paradigm-instead-growth.html

"Public disclosure of whether a data center may be coming into a community would be mandated under a Florida bill, which cleared the Senate floor unanimously Feb. 26. It's part of Florida’s overall push to regulate data centers."

https://eu.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/state/2026/02/27/florida-moves-to-require-disclosure-on-new-data-center-locations/88900157007/

AI data centers across South Korea could consume more electricity and water than the country is projected to supply over the next decade.

The 10 largest projected AI data centers alone would require 5.26 gigawatts of electricity and 126 million liters of water per day.

Based on average household consumption, that level of electricity could power about 21 million people, while the water usage would meet the annual needs of roughly 640,000 residents.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/25/ai-data-center-electricity-water-consume-projection/9991772071954/

“Our findings show that current AI systems can treat confident medical language as true by default, even when it’s clearly wrong. A fabricated recommendation in a discharge note can slip through. It can be repeated as if it were standard care. For these models, what matters is less whether a claim is correct than how it is written.”

https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/articles/feeding-ai-bad-info-can-cause-catastrophic-health-guidance-study

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs." Every word is a lie."

A short while later:

"When I asked about the best hot dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing."

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemini-i-tried-making-lie-about-me-2026-2

"It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them. Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millions. These offers dwarf the value of their properties, but farmers have refused to put a price on the lands that they love most."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/im-not-for-sale-farmers-refuse-to-take-millions-in-data-center-deals/

Altman lays bare Big Tech's plan for human genocide and eugenics.

"Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’"

Humans and Nature are expensive. They consume a lot of energy and materials. AI is much more deserving of resources.

This plan to wipe out most life on earth and replace it by an elite 'served' by AI and robots, is a long, long time in the planning by the tech bros.

We are so easily bought and sold by some cheap fun and convenience.

So Big Tech has started undressing our children so as to make even more profit off them.

Where are the Irish, UK and USA governments? An Irish Minister blames users. While the EU is complaining about Twitter on Twitter.

Big Tech own our governments. They own our politicians.

It's all about innovation and progress. Here we are having our children stripped of their rights and clothes to be sold for Big Tech profit. Here we are, with women facing an onslaught of Big Tech misogyny.

Toxic men.

Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon, Spain use water more efficiently.

That's the same Amazon that is using huge quantities of water for its data centers in Aragon, Spain

The same super-secretive Amazon that does its very best to hide its water usage figures from the public.

Welcome to the world of Big Tech: grifters, con artists and scammers. Mafia-like thugs who swear local governments to silence.

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@tunubesecamirio@masto.es

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water