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President Donald Trump has a message for Americans who scorn data centers: you’re making a foolish mistake.In a bizarre interview with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, flagged by Forbes, the president went out of his way to defend the AI industry’s data center frenzy, in opposition to the vast majority of American voters.“Frankly, communities that don’t take a data center are making a mistake,” Trump hectored. There are “plenty of communities” that want them, he continued, calling those that embrace the facilities the “smart ones.”His pitch isn’t exactly the most inspiring, falling back on tired — not to mention…

The future of food is looking a little grim.In the event we turn all arable land on this planet into a barren heath incapable of growing food, humankind may have to resort to reaping what we sowed by eating our own plastic pollution.A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale just demonstrated that this was possible by using specially engineered yeast to create tasty — and yes, edible — cookies which they 3D printed out of plastic waste.The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like discarded plant stalks into proteins, fats, acids, and flavorings…

The tech industry’s standing in the eyes of the US public has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last few years. Where Americans were once excited for new tech products and industry ideas, they’re now exhausted by the sector’s intrusions into their lives, whether with AI-generated slop or the data centers that power it.Pretty much everyone has received that message loud and clear: political strategists are issuing frenzied memos about the data center backlash, while tech financiers are now forced to consider the financial cost of AI hatred.At this point, there’s just one group that hasn’t caught on, and it’s…

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is struggling to keep his ahead above water.With the backlash against his company’s AI-powered surveillance network reaching a boiling point, Langley tried to reason with his critics by calling for a “compromise.”“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said in a recent Fox News interview, as spotted by TechCrunch. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”It’s the latest attempt from the Flock CEO to save the company’s image as…

As the bipartisan hate for data centers continues to grow, Texas governor Greg Abbott is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune.During a Sunday interview with ABC, Abbott said that AI companies have “basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”His comments indicate that it’s not just blue states growing wary of data centers. It’s a particularly noteworthy new take for Abbott, who mere months ago was an outspoken supporter of the massive facilities powering the AI boom. Just in November, he gloated that Texas was the…

Under the Trump administration, the federal government is sending wild horses straight into the meat grinder.An investigation by the New York Times found that the Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of these free-roaming animals and selling them to private buyers for pennies on the dollars, who then sell the horses to slaughterhouses at a huge profit. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the investigation found that the agency is exploiting a legal loophole to offload the animals so it can save it millions of dollars it’d have to spend taking care of them.“The BLM is saying to the…

A fashion tech entrepreneur has been ordered to serve time in prison after her ridiculous excuse for defrauding investors crumpled in court.On Thursday, Christine Hunsicker, former CEO of the “clothing-as-a-service” startup CaaStle was sentenced to five years in prison for committing nearly $300 million in fraud, the Financial Times reports.As part of Hunsicker’s defense, her lawyers tried to argue that the fraud stemmed from a traumatic brain injury after a “thirty-pound” mirror fell on her head. During the trial, a doctor testified on the CEO’s behalf that had she not been injured, she would “not have engaged in the fraud.”On…

Derek Chadwick, the cofounder of the new gay dating app Goose, has suddenly quit the company after the platform was exposed for tricking men into signing up using fake, AI generated influencers, the magazine Out reports.Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post.“Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve stepped away from Goose,” Chadwick wrote. “This was not a decision I made lightly. Building something for our community has been one of the most meaningful things I’ve gotten to do, and I’m proud to have…

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that pending home sales in the US had dropped to their lowest level in three years. That coincided with a sharp drop in construction of new homes, which plummeted to the lowest level in over three and a half years in July — two signs that things are not so sunny for the country’s housing market.While complicated factors like unchecked inflation and stagnant wages are surely having an effect on both weak housing supply and demand, there’s at least one novel factor contributing to the financial morass: AI data centers.According to policy publication the Center…

Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market. In a June 2026 report, the resume service Resume Builder surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 20 and 28 who graduated with a bachelor’s degree within the past year. Some 34 percent of them said they had a job offer that was yanked out of their hands after it was accepted. Of that contingent, 13 percent said it happened to them multiple times.Radio silence from employers was even…