"Data centers are slated to account for 50% or so of U.S. power-demand growth for the rest of the decade, Axios' Ben Geman reports from a new International Energy Agency analysis.

The AI-driven rise of huge data centers is a big reason IEA sees overall U.S. demand rising 2% annually on average from 202630.
That's twice the pace from 201625."
Axios

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"Data centers are slated to account for 50% or so of U.S. power-demand growth for the rest of the decade, Axios' Ben Geman reports from a new International Energy Agency analysis.

The AI-driven rise of huge data centers is a big reason IEA sees overall U.S. demand rising 2% annually on average from 202630.
That's twice the pace from 201625."
Axios

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When fewer data centers are built than projected who will end up paying for the huge electricity generation investment?

I just hope when the robots go on their murderous rampage, they come for the billionaires who built them first

"It was ready to kill someone, wasn't it?"

"Yes."

Daisy McGregor, UK policy chief at Anthropic, a top AI company, says it's "massively concerning" that Anthropic's Claude AI has shown in testing that it's willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down. pic.twitter.com/RuNO4LJKcu

— ControlAI (@ControlAI) February 10, 2026

READ THIS. IT'S HORRIFYING

Something Big Is Happening matt shumer https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

This is ancient history by now but general concept alive:
The best way to counter bad artificial intelligence is using good AI https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2024/06/20/the-best-way-to-counter-bad-artificial-intelligence-is-using-good-ai/

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bearister said:

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"Data centers are slated to account for 50% or so of U.S. power-demand growth for the rest of the decade, Axios' Ben Geman reports from a new International Energy Agency analysis.

The AI-driven rise of huge data centers is a big reason IEA sees overall U.S. demand rising 2% annually on average from 202630.
That's twice the pace from 201625."
Axios

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When fewer data centers are built than projected who will end up paying for the huge electricity generation investment?

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No one. Any excess supply will be soaked up by the growth in EV numbers.

Once the robots start killing us, AI won't need data centers:

DNA can store data at a density roughly 1 million times greater than current flash memory. Theoretically, you could store the entire internet in a shoebox full of DNA.

Durability: While a hard drive might fail in 10 years, DNA can remain readable for thousands of years if kept cool and dry (as proven by sequencing woolly mammoth genomes).

Energy Efficiency: DNA doesn't require power to "hold" the data; it only requires energy when you want to write (synthesize) or read (sequence) it.


A cyborg coming to harvest Cal88's DNA..

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Once the robots start killing us, AI won't need data centers:

DNA can store data at a density roughly 1 million times greater than current flash memory. Theoretically, you could store the entire internet in a shoebox full of DNA.

Durability: While a hard drive might fail in 10 years, DNA can remain readable for thousands of years if kept cool and dry (as proven by sequencing woolly mammoth genomes).

Energy Efficiency: DNA doesn't require power to "hold" the data; it only requires energy when you want to write (synthesize) or read (sequence) it.


A cyborg coming to harvest Cal88's DNA..

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I'll take my chances with a 1980s Honda XR 250. Funnily enough, I had the street legal version of that very bike while at Cal :

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READ THIS. IT'S HORRIFYING

Something Big Is Happening matt shumer https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

This is ancient history by now but general concept alive:
The best way to counter bad artificial intelligence is using good AI https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2024/06/20/the-best-way-to-counter-bad-artificial-intelligence-is-using-good-ai/

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"The biggest talk among the AI crowd yesterday was entrepreneur Matt Shumer's post, "Something Big Is Happening," comparing this moment to the eve of COVID. It went mega-viral, garnering nearly 70 million views in 36 hours…"
Axios

"AI is evolving faster than the systems designed to evaluate it. So lots of the scientific research you may read is already out of date by the time it's published, Axios' Herb Scribner reports.

Why it matters: AI skeptics and critics will have to learn to keep up or risk presenting misinformation themselves.

Case in point: A study from Oxford University this past week found that AI often gave wrong health advice, mostly due to how users asked questions.

As pointed out by Kevin Roose, N.Y. Times tech columnist and podcaster, the study was based on users who worked with only three much older or little-known models OpenAI's GPT-4o, Meta's Llama 3 and Cohere's Command R+. Roose said he's "begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models."

Similarly, a study led by a Brown researcher found that using AI for therapy may breach ethical standards. But the study was done by prompting now-outdated LLMs.

The bottom line: AI research can have a very short shelf life."
Axios

AI Made the Best Anti-AI Meme So Far pic.twitter.com/C1UvvqqzQX

— TaraBull (@TaraBull) February 15, 2026

"Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia and NYU are calling for guardrails on certain infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses, Axios' Megan Morrone writes.

Why it matters: Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled and regulation won't matter if the knowledge itself is already widely distributed.

An international group of more than 100 researchers has endorsed a framework to govern certain biological data the same way we handle sensitive health records."
Axios

ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide

At least 1,000 more planned

Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills

“ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data… pic.twitter.com/bO6ANaE7L5

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 18, 2026

this video will be referenced over and over in the next 20 years. pic.twitter.com/Y00wyup6Vw

— NZ ☄️ (@CodeByNZ) February 18, 2026

Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said https://t.co/55NYoGQuAV

— WSJ Tech (@WSJTech) February 20, 2026

Will AI be able to spell words in images correctly someday?

— Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) (@kenklippenstein) February 21, 2026

Sam Altman:

“People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model but it takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes 20 years of life & the food you eat.”

He’s comparing a HUMAN LIFE to a robot. They will end humanity unless we fight back.pic.twitter.com/KZ38ks2AdN

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) February 21, 2026

Bernie Sanders once again proving that he's CLUELESS as usual.



Weekend With Bernie

Aunburdened said:

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Sam Altman:

“People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model but it takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes 20 years of life & the food you eat.”

He’s comparing a HUMAN LIFE to a robot. They will end humanity unless we fight back.pic.twitter.com/KZ38ks2AdN

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) February 21, 2026

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The real race is inventing ethical AI that is more powerful than evil AI so that it can destroy it.


Hymie help us.

If you look back to the outsourcing/free trade debates of the 1980s-2010s, many parallels with AI. Promised efficiency and new wealth, investors and business that stood to benefit hired away top WH officials and lawmakers as lobbyists and "advisors" to expedite policy changes.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) February 23, 2026

AI is going to be financed by consumers and industry paying 2-3 times as much in energy costs in years to come.

The Consequences of Abundant Intelligence

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true


In other news….

What could go wrong?

"Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: Up to now, Anthropic's Claude has been the only model available in the systems on which the military's most sensitive intelligence work, weapons development and battlefield operations take place. But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.

Anthropic has refused the Pentagon's demand that they make Claude available for "all lawful purposes," insisting in particular on blocking its use for the mass surveillance of Americans and the development of fully autonomous weapons."
Axios





Bonus track:

How a doomsday AI blog post wiped out billions

https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/doomsday-ai-substack-wiped-billions-stocks-ccsbpgqb2

What an Ad. pic.twitter.com/AJUwkmD0t1

— Shubham Mishra (@brahma_4u) February 26, 2026

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What could go wrong?

"Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: Up to now, Anthropic's Claude has been the only model available in the systems on which the military's most sensitive intelligence work, weapons development and battlefield operations take place. But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.

Anthropic has refused the Pentagon's demand that they make Claude available for "all lawful purposes," insisting in particular on blocking its use for the mass surveillance of Americans and the development of fully autonomous weapons."
Axios

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I'm sure they would love to bypass the human element in enforcing their will domestically and internationally

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Friday he was ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company's unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.
https://abc7news.com/post/anthropic-refuses-bend-pentagon-ai-safeguards-dispute-nears-deadline/18657113/

"Officials at multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk's xAI artificial-intelligence tools in recent months, highlighting continuing disagreements within the U.S. government about which AI models to deploy, according to people familiar with the matter."
WSJ

Hey did you accidentally bomb Iraq instead of Iran???

ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right good catch! https://t.co/xDDqMyywzz

— Danny Polishchuk (@Dannyjokes) February 28, 2026

"This is the shorthand used by executives and investors to describe how AI is getting more capable and more independent.

Vibe coding: Using AI to generate code from high-level prompts (aka, vibes). With vibe coding, a chatbot can build an app or website mostly by itself, but a human must still debug and refine it.

Agent swarms: A "swarm" is a group of specialized AI agents working together to solve a complex problem. In the case of "agentic AI," AI-powered systems act autonomously to accomplish a task without consistent direction from a human.

Recursive learning: When AI teaches itself, using its own outputs to inform its next version, potentially creating a feedback loop of rapid improvement without needing human-generated data. While recent models from major AI labs have helped train themselves, they are mostly still trained using human-created data.

Human in the loop: This means what it sounds like: Keeping a person involved to review, approve or intervene, especially when AI systems act autonomously.

Model Context Protocol (MCP): An open-source framework founded by Anthropic that lets a model securely connect and interact with other apps or data systems. This allows an AI model to talk to Excel or PowerPoint, executing tasks autonomously.

METR Curve: Derived from the nonprofit METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), this tracks how long it takes AI to autonomously complete tasks without human intervention. That baseline has been increasing exponentially, doubling in about 7 months on average, according to their research. Industry insiders rely on this as a means of sussing out AI's progress.

HALO: For markets nerds, it's an acronym for "heavy assets low obsolescence." The term is used to refer to the HALO effect around stocks or assets that are tangible (aka, not replaceable by AI). After years of a tech-driven rally, real-world stuff is cool again for investors. Gold is a recent example, up over 23% year-to-date.

The "North Stars": Where AI is heading

AGI (artificial general intelligence): This is the point where an AI can perform any intellectual task a human can do. AI CEOs ranging from

OpenAI's Altman to Google DeepMind's Hassabis increasingly hint that we are within a few years of this milestone.

The Singularity: A hypothetical point in the future where technological growth accelerates beyond human control and becomes irreversible."
Axios


The Singularity



The Singularity harvesting DNA to power AI in place of data centers.

Aye Eye?? hush child. signed, old fort

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Same vibes. It’s over.pic.twitter.com/ggjg2Rj4c5 https://t.co/FJRVQY23w2

— The ₿itcoin Therapist (@TheBTCTherapist) February 28, 2026

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I saw a headline that Anthropic refused to pentagon demands and were then Out.

Then I saw a headline that OpenAI is IN with Pentagon.

Then I saw a headline that Anthropic just had its biggest day of new app downloads, or subscriptions.

Then I saw the above text, and I thought, "oh no, Trump is going to be cataloging everything every ChatGPT user has ever entered into chatgpt! That's why Anthropic users went up - I'd better abandon OpenAI, too."

Then I saw the Terminator video and thought, "oh, this is why Anthropic denied Trump - their CEO doesn't want to become SkyNet."

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Trump and his half a brick short lads stepped on their dicks and will back peddle on this on.

Pete Hegseth


Anthropic Statement on the comments from Secretary of War
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

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It merits posting the statement.

I anticipate the day when Trump enters Anthropic (or pick your company) boardroom with guns and says, "your company is now mine."

And who is going to stop him?

Quote:

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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Feb 27, 2026
Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk. This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

We have not yet received direct communication from the Department of War or the White House on the status of our negotiations.

We have tried in good faith to reach an agreement with the Department of War, making clear that we support all lawful uses of AI for national security aside from the two narrow exceptions above. To the best of our knowledge, these exceptions have not affected a single government mission to date.

We held to our exceptions for two reasons. First, we do not believe that today's frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America's warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented actionone historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company. We are deeply saddened by these developments. As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government's classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.

We believe this designation would both be legally unsound and set a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government.

No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.

What this means for our customers

Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement. Legally, a supply chain risk designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of Department of War contractsit cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers.

In practice, this means:

If you are an individual customer or hold a commercial contract with Anthropic, your access to Claudethrough our API, claude.ai, or any of our productsis completely unaffected.
If you are a Department of War contractor, this designationif formally adoptedwould only affect your use of Claude on Department of War contract work. Your use for any other purpose is unaffected.
Our sales and support teams are standing by to answer any questions you may have.

We are deeply grateful to our users, and to the industry peers, policymakers, veterans, and members of the public who have voiced their support in recent days. Thank you. Above all else, our priorities are to protect our customers from any disruption caused by these extraordinary events and to work with the Department of War to ensure a smooth transitionfor them, for our troops, and for American military operations.

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