Personal Digest: AI's Hidden Cost: Power, Profit and Peril
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electricity near AI data centers up 267% — Demand from AI compute is driving a 267% spike in local electricity use, straining grids and prompting huge investments and debates over climate and supply chains.
| Artificial IntelligenceAI's appetite: power, profit, peril — and a few healers too Power grid (google.com) · Capital Expenditure (fool.com) · Child sexual abuse material (lakemchenryscanner.com) |
 | CybersecuritySupply chains and space: cyber risk keeps widening Medical Device (insights.citeline.com) · Data Breach (etnownews.com) · Stock Market (chron.com) |
 | BaseballMilestones, streaming and comeback theatre keep baseball lively Seiya Suzuki (japantimes.co.jp) · Apple TV Plus (jsonline.com) · Transfer portal (tigerrag.com) |
 | DogsPet safety alerts: recalls, heat risks and police confrontations Food Safety (azfamily.com) · Heat Waves (wthr.com) · Police Harassment (cbsnews.com) |
 | UfoCongress turns up the heat — declassification showdown looms United States Department of Defense (msn.com) · United States (al.com) · Astronomy (skyatnightmagazine.com) |
 | EducationCulture wars, cash shifts and classroom tech gaps collide Child Abuse (ktsm.com) · Athletic scholarship (washingtonpost.com) · School Choice (naplesnews.com) |
 | BRCA-2Male breast cancer in the spotlight after actor Tyler Mane's diagnosis |
 | CoffeeCoffee shops as climate actors and community lifelines Sustainability (youarecurrent.com) · Homelessness (spectrumnews1.com) · Community (wafb.com) |
 | IranConflict calculus: diplomacy, arms flows and economic resilience Recessions (fxstreet.com) · Iran-United States relations (thehill.com) · Israel-Iran conflict (nbcnews.com) |
 | ParentingSharenting and AI: parents juggling privacy, pedagogy and new tech Artificial Intelligence (nytimes.com) · Sharenting (businesstoday.com.my) · Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas (ketv.com) |
 | TennisWimbledon drama: new stars, surprise upsets, and missing names Grand Slam (tennis) (nytimes.com) · Jannik Sinner (srnnews.com) · Wimbledon Championships (independent.co.uk) |
 | AntisemitismInquiry hears online hate has gone off the rails in Australia |
 | ArtFrom Yellow Kid to Harlem kids: comics and community art endure Comic Book (smithsonianmag.com) · Art Education (neighbors.columbia.edu) |
 | LoveLove goes retro on screens and rooftops Love Island (TV series) (lohud.com) · Romance (elle.in) · Patriotism (christianitytoday.com) |
 | Disneyland ParisDisneyland Paris retires carriages and shutters Pixar favorite |
 | MisinformationPublic figures quit platforms as falsehoods corrode civic trust |
 | DisneyStudios forced to unmask AI playbooks in Midjourney lawsuit Copyright (variety.com) · Artificial Intelligence (comicbasics.com) |
 | dehumanizationLanguage as weapon: rhetoric strips people of personhood Migration (borkena.com) · Conspiracy Theory (rawstory.com) · Israeli-Palestinian conflict (arabnews.jp) |
 | Fourth of JulyScorching skies put a sweat on America's 250th celebrations Heat Waves (cbsnews.com) · Barbecue (inquirer.com) · Fireworks (abc7news.com) |