Sen. Bernie Sanders on Twitter / X

People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds

The data drops as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on datacenter construction. 'We need to take a deep breath. We need to make sure that AI and robotics work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'

Stop the AI Build-Out, Start the Fight

Across the country, working-class communities are rising up against Big Tech’s data center boom. A moratorium isn’t the end goal — it’s the only leverage we have to force real democratic control over artificial intelligence.

Is the Left Making a ‘Massive Strategic Blunder’ on Data Centers?

A conversation with Holly Jean Buck, author of a buzzy story about Bernie Sanders’ proposal for a national data center moratorium.

AI Is A Money Trap

In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that

Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds

Is AI the next era of social media?

Where Republicans and Democrats stand on AI data centers

Five charts exploring how Republicans and Democrats feel about AI data centers and what that might mean for the road ahead

Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s… pic.twitter.com/GEq0q6hEM0— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) July 13, 2026

Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry

But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics.

Bernie Sanders “Interviewed” A Chatbot To Expose AI’s Secrets. It Has No Secrets. It Just Agrees With You.

Senator Bernie Sanders has a viral video making the rounds in which he “interviews” Anthropic’s Claude chatbot about the dangers of AI and privacy. It has over two million views. …

Dave Troy on Twitter / X

Fears over datacenters are distorted along a few important axes:1) anxiety over AI, future employment, and control; they symbolize what people fear they are losing,2) compute centralization, which is actually probably not going to actually occur, because of financial…— Dave Troy (@davetroy) August 21, 2026

Suhail on Twitter / X

Oh, this is coming back in such a big way this year with AI. We were a bit too early.Remember: Browser = OS pic.twitter.com/YoMaS8cjmI— Suhail (@Suhail) June 23, 2025

Michael Geist -

The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology is one of several committees in the House and Senate conducting hearings on artificial intelligence. I appeared before the committee yesterday (my fourth appearance on the issue in recent months), but rather than reiterate previous testimony on privacy, copyright, and transparency, I focused on the big issue of the moment: bans on social media and AI chatbots for children. The committee had been hearing from many supportive witnesses who emphasized the risk of harm associated with AI. Indeed, one Senator asked the panel before mine to raise their hands if they supported a ban, and virtually all hands went up. I was unsure about how my comments would be received, but I found the Senators open to debate on the issue. A video of my opening remarks, together with the transcript, is posted below. A future Law Bytes podcast episode will delve into the discussion that followed.

Data Center Proposal Tracker

Explore data center proposals across the United States. Stay informed on AI-driven growth and infrastructure projects shaping the future.

Data Center Proposal Tracker

Explore data center proposals across the United States. Stay informed on AI-driven growth and infrastructure projects shaping the future.

The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed

We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.