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They fought against datacenters. Now they are running for local offices

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Across the US, anti-datacenter organizers are harnessing community anger to win local electionsAfter four months of teach-ins and canvassing, Steven Kung helped Monterey Park, just east of Los Angeles, become the first US city to ban datacenter construction. Now, the organizer is running for city council – and he’s taking on an incumbent who supported […]

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A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop

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She wanted to pry her late mother’s vineyard from two of her brothers. Instead, her lawyers were fined nearly $110,000 for citing bogus case law generated by artificial intelligence.

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‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

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The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residentsWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies – that he filed a complaint in court to have the mayor and city

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Behind the Somali daycare panic is a mother-and-son duo angling to be top Maga influencers

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Nick and Brooke Shirley have for years published conspiracy-minded takes on hot-button rightwing issuesYouTube influencer Nick Shirley, whose viral video alleging fraud by daycare centers servicing Minneapolis’s Somali American community came days ahead of the Trump administration’s declaration of a national funding freeze, has for years published conspiracy-minded takes on hot-button rightwing issues.He also has

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