“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
-Anthony Moser on hating AI
“It is planet-immolating, stultifying, fascist tech. The extruding plagiarism machine is disgusting and we should break it.”
@rbreich.bsky.social:
Dozens of 
frac’dgas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers.
These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.
We need a data center moratorium — now.
A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing is not recovered, and consequently this water is lost permanently to re-use, which differs from some other water uses in which water can be recovered and processed for re-use.
The AUC rejects Syanpse’s Olds power plant operation for the second time. It’s good that power plants are regulated by the AUC and not the AER! Can you imagine the noise & air pollution of 600 diesel back-up units?
The decision is here: prd-api-efiling20.auc.ab.ca/Anonymous/Do…
‘Not suitable’: Utilities commission rejects power plant for Olds, Alta., data centre by Lauren Krugel The Canadian Press, August 17, 2026, Global News
The Alberta Utilities Commission has denied an application to build a natural gas plant that would have powered a massive data centre complex in the small agricultural town of Olds, Alta.
Synapse Real Estate Corp. had proposed a 10-building campus with 1.4 gigawatts of power generation — about enough to power the city of Edmonton.
The plan also included 1.8 gigawatts of emergency and backup diesel generation.
But the commission, in a decision published Monday, said the site won’t work.
“The project is too close to the surrounding community, and Synapse failed to demonstrate any compelling justification for selecting that location,” the commission said.
“The site is simply not suitable for the proposed development.”
Many residents in the town of 10,000 voiced fervent opposition to the project within town limits.
They are concerned about noise, pollution, home values, safety and strain on local health care and emergency services.
Olds is 80 kilometres north of Calgary.
The commission noted strong local interest. It said it had received applications from about 1,500 parties wanting to participate in hearings. It granted standing to more than 900.
Typical proceedings would attract a few hundred applicants.
The Alberta government has been courting big tech companies to set up shop in the province but is prioritizing projects that provide their own power for their data centres in order to not overburden the grid.That’s bullshit, Smith and her Nazis don’t give a shit about the grid or ordinary Albertans not having electricity. Smith and Carney are shoving AI and AI data centres down our throats to please the orange kid-raping mass murdering King of Evil, and are saying the tech Nazis must produce their own power to drive up demand for natural gas. Fucking insanity.
Data centres house computer servers and other hardware needed to power many facets of technology.but, the big push is not for just ordinary data centres, it’s for fucking useless unwanted, kid and woman abusing, racist, bigoted, mass surveillance AI.
With the advent of artificial intelligence and the enormous processing power needed to train and run large language models, questions are being raised over whether they are worth the environmental impact and electricity demand.Easy to answer. No! AI is not worth the harms, pollution, noise, lights, vibrations, PFAS, lies, abuse, violating privacy rights, etc., not in the least.
The commission is tasked with determining whether the accompanying power infrastructure is in the public interest, but decisions around zoning and land use for data centres fall to municipalities.
The town government has seen data centre development as an opportunity for increased tax revenue and local employment.stupid stupid stupid. The town for sure did not do their homework about AI. The jobs are lies, just like how the frac’ers lied about jobs.
It said it had not received a development permit application from Synapse.
“Throughout this process, the town has maintained that development must meet the required safety, environmental and regulatory standards before it can proceed,” the town said on its website Monday.
“The AUC’s review is an important part of those checks and balances, and we respect its decision.”I bet Danielle Smith won’t
Data centre development has stoked consternation elsewhere in the province.
Meta Platforms Inc.,another fucking kid abuserthe tech titan behind Facebook and Instagram, announced plans last month to build a $13-billion data centre complex in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton.
It would be linked up to an adjacent frac’d gas powered power plant to be built by Pembina Pipeline Corp., Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor Asset Management.
Hundreds of people gathered outside of Sturgeon County’s office earlier this month to protest the Meta data centre plant.
Last month, a rural municipality bordering Calgary voted to pause new data centre proposals while the Rocky View County government works to pin down the rules that apply to such projects.
The provincial government has announced it is holding a series of town halls in the coming weeks to gauge residents’ views on data centre development.no, not to get our views, to lie to us and bully us.
1:58Why there’s growing pushback against AI data centres
- Olds data centre application resubmitted for review
- Alberta man plans to protest AI data centres as province announces town halls
- Protestors voice concerns over new Alberta AI data centre
- Capital Power CEO excited about Alberta AI data centre opportunities
Dirty Tech
AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds, AI companies are the fossil fuel industry’s best friends. by Victor Tangermann, Aug 14, 2026, Futurism
The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating.
The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models, the trend is only going to get worse from here.
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up, as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details. The authors found that the industry has been using AI to increase productivity, drill for more oil, and reap even greater profits, vastly outweighing any benefits from AI-enabled advances in the renewable energy sector.
Put simply, AI’s impact on the environment greatly exceeds emissions linked to data centers.
“Predominant analyses examine the relationship between datacenter energy demand, renewables optimization, and demand-side efficiencies, but insufficiently address how AI also reshapes fossil fuel supply economics,” wrote authors, led by former Microsoft managers turned sustainability researchers Will and Holly Alpine, who are married.
They concluded that AI’s “enabled emissions,” meaning additional pollution a new tech enables, “exceed avoided emissions,” or pollution reductions due to advances in renewable energy. Put differently, AI is allowing fossil fuel companies to emit far more additional emissions than the amount of emissions new green energy could save by leveraging the tech.
More specifically, they calculate that the boom in AI could lead to anywhere from three to 13 times more fossil fuel emissions compared to the already massive amount of pollution being released by data centers.
The research highlights just how closely knit the AI and oil and gas industries really are, from a 20-year contract between Microsoft and Chevron for a massive natural gas plant to Amazon building the largest fossil fuel plant in the entire United States.
“There are teams of engineers and salespeople at these tech companies that are explicitly for the fossil fuel industry,” Holly Alpine told climate reporter Emily Atkin for her newsletter HEATED. “They are engineers writing code explicitly in partnerships with oil majors to expand production.”
“It is difficult and frustrating for us to see the conversation around ‘the true climate impacts of AI’ just stop at operational emissions,” she added.
“We cannot get across enough how important it is to include what [AI] is used for.”
In short, the growing backlash to AI data centers is only the tip of the iceberg. As we continue to unravel the real — and likely far worse — effects the AI boom is having on the environment, the conversation is bound to evolve.
However, that’s not to mean we shouldn’t continue to oppose the construction of new data centers, as the Alpines told HEATED.
To save us from being pushed “toward a climate-negative future,” the Alpines are now calling for tighter “guardrails” as the level of emissions continue to rise, straying us ever further from the path needed to meaningfully address the planet’s growing climate crisis.
More on AI and emissions: Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Pennsylvania AI Data Center Developer Asked Trump Administration Official to Help Loosen Toxic Emissions Limits, Brian O’Neill asked the State Department attorney to set up meetings with state and federal officials that would clear the way for his project’s gas power plants. by Edward Donnelly, Aug 12, 2026, desmog
Series: Tech vs Climate
Pennsylvania real estate executive Brian O’Neill sought the help of an attorney at the United States Department of State to lobby state and federal officials to waive national federal air pollution limits on his proposed gas-fired power plants in the Philadelphia suburbs, emails obtained via a public records request show.Douche fucker!
The power plants are crucial components of O’Neill’s plans to construct a giant AI data center complex spanning the communities of Upper Merion and Plymouth townships, in Montgomery County. Combined, the data centers would consume one-gigawatt of energy — enough to power the equivalent of about 800,000 homes.
The documents, shared by the No Conshy Data Centers community group, and published by DeSmog, open a new window into O’Neill’s lobbying of state officials in 2025 and early 2026, as he sought to pave the way for his company, MLP Ventures, to move ahead with the project.
The State Department official, Michael Tierney, worked in 2023 as legal counsel for Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D). He helped O’Neill coordinate his data center plans with state officials in early 2025, while working as a private attorney.
In March 2025, Tierney took his initial role in the Trump administration as general counsel at USAID. He remained copied on emails related to O’Neill’s project, however, and subsequently attended a May 2025 meeting about the project that also included a state official and O’Neill.
Tierney moved to the State Department as a deputy legal adviser in October 2025.
The Shapiro administration said in response to a request for comment that, “When Mr. Tierney contacted the Shapiro Administration, the Administration understood him to be an outside advisor engaged by MLP Ventures — one of several attorneys and consultants working for the developer,” and that every communication with Tierney “came through his private sector email address.”
“Mr. Tierney did not disclose his federal employment in those conversations,” the Shapiro administration said.
On December 26, 2025, O’Neill emailed Tierney and asked him to help set up talks with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), federal and state agencies that handle various forms of planning and permitting for major power generation projects.
At this time, MLP Ventures was in the process of closing a deal with a major data center company by December 31, O’Neill said, but faced a years-long wait to secure the huge amounts of power needed to run the project from the grid. O’Neill’s solution was to add construction of “behind-the-meter power” to his plans: on-site power generation in the form of generators and natural gas turbines.
However, O’Neill was concerned that federal limits on air pollution could present a roadblock to his gas-fired power generation plans. Montgomery County is designated by the EPA as a “non-attainment zone”, meaning that concentrations of key air pollutants exceed national air quality standards. This designation sharply reduces the emissions allowed from new sources of pollution, such as power plants.
O’Neill was focused in particular on the annual cap of 25 tons on emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), airborne chemicals which increase the risk of asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other illnesses.
“Is there any flexibility in that 25-ton number?” O’Neill asked Tierney, one of five points he said he wished to discuss with the EPA and PUC.
O’Neill said that “emissions reduction credits,” a pollution allowance that companies can buy from other companies that have reduced emissions, were not available in the region, “making the 25-ton limitation difficult to achieve.”
Since utilities were unable to provide the huge amount of power his project needed in “a timely manner,” O’Neill asked Tierney if the EPA could provide waivers to the emissions limits.
“Are there strategies the EPA is working on, similar to what they have done with coal-firing plants, to reduce these limits?” O’Neill asked. “Can we implement a strategy in partnership with the EPA?”
(Credit: Lena Ilse/DeSmog)
In addition, O’Neill wanted to “get on the phone with someone senior” at the PUC [Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission], noting that, “I do not think PA or the US wants to fall behind China and other countries in the development of data centers and AI.”
Existing air pollution standards were “put in during the “green movement’” and “may not be appropriate or applicable to today,” O’Neill added.JFC! Triple douche fucker
“The time urgency of this is immediate,” he wrote Tierney, noting that a deal on his “$10 to $20 billion of economic development” was due to close within six days.
O’Neill named Digital Realty, an Austin, Texas-based real estate investment trust listed on the Fortune 500, and one of the world’s top data center companies, as a potential partner in his center project, according to emails previously reported by DeSmog.
Less than two weeks after O’Neill reached out with his December 26, 2025 request, Tierney was in contact with officials at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, emails show.
“Following our calls, please see below email to me from MLP Ventures CEO. Thank you for helping us arrange a meeting with a senior PUC official,” Tierney wrote Matthew Wurst, chief of staff for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Chairman Stephen DeFrank, on January 5, 2026, forwarding O’Neill’s email about reducing emissions standards.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment or make Tierney available for comment.
On January 7, MLP Ventures and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission held a video call, according to meeting records.
Later that day, O’Neill emailed the CEOs of Philadelphia-area utility PECO and its Chicago-based owner Exelon with a series of requests related to securing power from the grid in tandem with on-site power generation, including “confirmation that my power from [grid operator] PJM, PECO and Exelon can be expedited if we allow you to disconnect on high demand days.”
O’Neill wrote that “I am well aware of the pressure to not raise rates on individual consumers, and I applaud those initiatives. I am therefore providing an off-grid alternative and based on that, I want to make sure that my transaction closes and moves forward.”What a fucking asshole this shit is.
Copied on the email were officials from the Pennsylvania Office of Transformation & Opportunity, an agency that expedites large industrial projects, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), an agency that O’Neill had identified to Tierney in his December email as “extraordinarily cooperative.”They sure the fuck are with gross polluters and greed mongers that harm public health
The DEP said, in response to a request for comment, that it “met with MLP Ventures for routine explanations on how the state permitting process works,” and that it has not received any permit applications for data center projects in Montgomery County. “Any communications with potential applicants do not represent DEP approval or advocacy for a particular project or outcome or the Governor’s policy opinion on a proposal.”
On January 12, PECO replied to an inquiry from Matthew Wurst, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission chief of staff, titled “MLB [sic] Inquiry/ PECO Information.” The specifics of Wurst’s inquiry are not clear, because the version included in the public records release is fully redacted.
In response to a request for comment, the PUC stated that its communications with MLP Ventures “involved inquiries concerning power generation, environmental oversight and grid interconnection issues. Consistent with the Commission’s normal practice, PUC staff worked to provide information and clarify the Commission’s role and jurisdiction regarding those issues.”
The PUC stated that it is routinely in touch with officials, businesses, government agencies and other stakeholders in utility-related projects, terming these communications “an important part of being a responsive regulatory agency, particularly as Pennsylvania and the broader region work through increasingly complex questions involving energy infrastructure and large new electric loads.”
MLP Ventures, Digital Realty, PECO, Exelon, the EPA, and USAID did not respond to requests for comment.
By early March, when O’Neill’s MLP Ventures formally applied to build a gigawatt-scale data center complex in Upper Merion Township, state officials had been confidentially coordinating the project with O’Neill for more than a year.Fuckers, the lot of them
The proposal has ignited opposition from local community members concerned about air pollution, sound and light impacts, falling home values, rising utility bills, and other potential harms.PFAS, heavy metals and biocide pollution, water loss, etc.
At a May 27 public meeting in Upper Merion, O’Neill presented his plans for on-site power generation to hundreds of local residents, addressing what he called “myths” about data centers with “facts.”Wanna bet his “facts” were lies?
O’Neill said that it was a perception that “data centers reduce air quality,” but that it was “not true.” MLP Ventures was “spending billions of dollars on emissions control equipment,” O’Neill told local residents.So what? Doesn’t mean that equipment will be installed.
Tierney, the State Department attorney, was nominated by President Donald Trump in April to serve as assistant secretary of the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. His confirmation in the U.S. Senate is pending.
Upper Merion officials are scheduled to vote on whether to approve or deny MLP Ventures’ plans at public hearing on August 13. Hearings on whether to approve the company’s plans in Plymouth Township are ongoing and expected to last several months.
The reporting for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Developer Sues Upper Merion Township to Clear Path for Massive Data Center Complex by Northeast Times News, August 13, 2026
A Montgomery County township is facing a lawsuit from the developer behind a proposed cluster of data centers, as community opposition and legal maneuvering collide in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Douche Fucker Supreme Developer MLP Ventures filed suit against Upper Merion Township’s planning commission and board of supervisors, according to CBS Philadelphia, after the approval process stalled. A court order has placed the matter on hold, potentially delaying a township vote that had been scheduled for Thursday. The board was still set to meet and, per its posted agenda, planned to consider letters of extension tied to the proposal.
What MLP Ventures Is Proposing
The project, brought forward by Pennsylvania real estate executive Brian O’Neill under the MLP Ventures banner, would place data centers at five locations spanning Upper Merion and West Conshohocken. The facilities would total more than 4 million square feet. O’Neill has argued the development would generate a 54 percent increase in local tax revenue, rely on a closed-loop water systemwhich can use cancer-causing PFAS, and regularly require dumping and refilling, with that PFAS-laden waste too often dumped into the environment, contaminating area drinking water supplies, despite endless promises to protect communities and their environment, meet noise requirements, and reducereduce? that’s not good enough, it needs to be completely mitigated, FFS light pollution.
As DeSmog reported in detail, the Upper Merion complex alone would span 4.6 million square feet, making it roughly seven times larger than the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Company documents reviewed by DeSmog put the project’s cost at $35.16 billion. On-site gas-fired power plants generating one gigawatt of electricity are also part of the plan. In adjacent Plymouth Township, MLP Ventures is separately proposing a two-million-square-foot complex on a shuttered steel plant site.
Residents Pack Community Meeting
Residents are not waiting on the courts.Bravo! CBS Philadelphia reported that hundreds of people filled Upper Merion Middle School on Wednesday evening to voice opposition, many wearing No Data Centers stickers. One resident told the outlet the placement of such facilities near homes was deeply unfair.
The pushback is not new. DeSmog reported that more than 200 people packed Freedom Hall at an earlier May 27 planning commission session, with hundreds more spilling into the lobby. O’Neill presented his project amid boos and hecklers, and township supervisor Zach Davis was quoted by DeSmog as saying the proposal seemed to move from zero to full speed before the township had even finalized its AI data center ordinance.
State-Level Support Adds Tension
Upper Merion’s dispute sits within a broader political context in Pennsylvania. DeSmog reported that Governor Josh Shapirosleazy untrustworthy traitor and back stabber, who betrayed the frac harmed of Dimock, wants to be president, thus has publicly described the state as all in on AI, with dozens of data center applications filed statewide since early 2025, many accompanied by plans for dedicated gas-fired generation. Emails reviewed by DeSmog indicated that the governor’s office engaged in behind-the-scenes discussions with state officials to help advance the Upper Merion project specifically.douche fuckersb Shapiro and O’Neill make a great couple
Resident Basit Rasool told DeSmog the proposal was bringing significant stress to the community. Another resident, Patti Erickson, described a particular aspect of the plans as the real kicker for those mobilizing against it, according to the same report.
The legal challenge means the township’s next steps remain subject to court proceedings, with the board’s Thursday meeting limited to procedural matters tied to the pending application.
And, the biggest AI douche fuckers in North America, are Mark Carney and his bestie, Danielle Smith, doing what Nazi Trump orders them to do.
@bobatbsky.bsky.social:
Stop sending it to the Yanks!
@yodada.bsky.social:
Ontario has hydro, nuclear, and windfarms but my electricity is still over $100 a month. Are we exporting it all or what?
@dawhack.bsky.social:
If you are using gas fired plants to increase electricity you are not creating “clean electrical power from source”.
@chroniccanadian.bsky.social:
I’d like to see some government assistance with residential solar panels.me too, and heat pumps for every small business, apartment and house
@cleanenuff.bsky.social:
Export taxes on oil, gas, potash, and electricity would help.
@jc-in-rothesay.bsky.social:
Then stop subsidizing oil and gas and give green energy the same breaks
Again: We’re financing the burning of gas – for a U.S. tech giant to benefit U.S. owned /aligned oil & gas corporations:
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n…
Wasting tens of billions on a marketless pipeline.
And while the country is on fire, you cut wildfire response:
and yes it matters what Canada does and what you do in terms of climate change re gas: www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m…
For more on why Canada’s emissions DO in fact matter: davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic… & bsky.app/profile/seth… & www.theenergymix.com/13-canadian-… & youtu.be/jiY4oDxEzB8
Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
you gutted the clean electricity regs: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/n…
And that’s just the start of the ways your policies have made set Canada back: bsky.app/profile/sust…
@frankyplata.bsky.social:
Who’s doubling it? Why aren’t the ones behind doubling it paying their part? Why are we subsidizing an obvious scam?
@mortimerb.bsky.social:
… Canada SAYS it’s investing in the future.
Unfortunately it doesn’t.
Carney is a liar.
@dwcisme.bsky.social:
Maybe stop selling it to the U.S. at a discount?
@cmct.bsky.social:
Because of all the data centers that are being planned? They are a really bad idea. How much of this electricity will be generated by renewables such as solar and wind?
@everyripple.bsky.social:
Electricity supply is going to be sucked dry by AI that no one wants and that will be used to surveil and manipulate the public.the main reason why Smith and Carney are all in on AI.
Mark Carney has cut EV mandates to save all the power for AI data centres.
@thestar.com @theglobeandmail.com @theguardian.com @mark-carney.bsky.social @avilewis.ca
@wbwmontreal.bsky.social:
Why not work on reducing our consumption? Your short-term vision and grow-grow-grow mentality will be the death of us.
@swingingbunt.bsky.social:
The audacity to say “clean”.Carney is a grand liar, cruel and inhumane, just like Trump without the orange.
@therealdee.bsky.social:
How about no data centers???
@stellacrowell0.bsky.social:
My electricity has already doubled in the last 4 yrs.And Albertans, stupidly voting again and again for corrupt gov’ts that abuse them, pay the highest rate in Canada.
Haven’t received any help with that.
You want to double it again.
@thecowscamehome.bsky.social:
Or reduce the population by half.
@jcbrown.bsky.social:
News is monstrous. We have absolutely evil people running this country. It’s time for the decent people supporting them to stop and refuse to be part of this fascist. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world is the one we must fight for. …
In my view, Mark Carney is Trump with manners, less stupid, less orange, less vulgar, less weight.
@jess587.bsky.social:
I wish we had more solar options as energy costs have skyrocketed in Alberta.
@sandverge.bsky.social:
No promises that the mining products will not be sold to the US, and the best date I can find for the proposed cash flow to Newfoundland and Labrador is for 2041. We need clean energy NOW, solar and wind especially, and a much bigger push for EVs. The most used power source for mining is diesel.
Other countries are proceeding with solar now, it doesn’t require a magic wand or time machine. The tech is available and getting more affordable, and investing in pipelines is problematic. The next round of forest fires & storms may take out more infrastructure than we have invested in.
@rewhan.bsky.social:
Especially if you get your way on these data centre proposals.
And before somebody jumps up my ass saying I need to give up YouTube and Netflix, there’s a gulf of difference between a streaming webhost data-centre and an LLM data-centre.
@jurgenhissen.bsky.social:
Exactly. Those giant new data centers aren’t about providing streaming services to consumers. They’re about hoovering up every measurable bit of data ABOUT consumers
@canadiancynic.bsky.social:
My loathing for Mark Carney cannot even be expressed in words.Me too, I saw his quisling pro Nazi USA, pro Israel’s genocide, before the election.
Please forgive me for voting Liberal in the last federal election.
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