Ben Inskeep
@Ben_Inskeep
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Program Director @cacindiana | consumer & environmental advocate | #YesCers | he/him | views expressed are mine
Indianapolis, IN
Joined July 2014
Join me & my @cacindiana colleagues @KerwinOlson & @brycemgustafson on Tuesday night for a webinar on Data Centers in Indiana!. We'll share new insights that we've uncovered from our research and organizing over the past year. We're now tracking >40 data center proposals đź«
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Transmission projects to serve new data center loads are a major factor contributing to a more than fivefold increase MISO's Expedited Project Review project costs in 2025
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List of WVPA's transmission projects. Note the projects with "LEAP" in the description, which is the location of the new Meta data center.
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Wabash Valley Power Alliance is increasing spending on local transmission projects by ~1,300%, primarily to interconnect a massive new Meta data center. WVPA will spend least $627 million in transmission upgrades to serve Meta. Will rural cooperative members pay higher rates?
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RT @MrCrabatious: Round up the usual suspects. #MrCrabatious @Indy_reporter_ @jstewartIndy @CouncilorHart @IndyCouncil @nickroberts317 @Ron….
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RT @MrEwanMorrison: Nearly one in three (31%) company employees say they are “sabotaging their company’s generative AI strategy,” according….
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Imagine if our government protected its citizens instead of facilitating our exploitation by Big Tech 🤔.
China is ahead of the US & UK on AI labelling. From today, AI-generated content in China must be labelled as such. Some key aspects of the legislation:.- All major AI media types covered.- Visible/audible watermarking and metadata labelling both required.- Requirements must be.
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RT @benigma2017: We’re gonna lock up some more homeless people and throw all their belongings in the trash to impress our billionaire donor….
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RT @MattLech: very rich people are quite simply not compatible with democracy or any sort of functioning society.
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RT @berningman16: This is obscene. What kind of a sick planet allows this madness to continue?.
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RT @halfheldsky: I cannot believe this story is getting buried data centers are striking private deals with utility companies to offload th….
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RT @UnionDrip: At the US Open, a millionaire stole a hat meant for a kid. Remember who we’re fighting against this Labor Day weekend. https….
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Will the city-county council side with Google or with Hoosier families?. Approval of the data center could push utility bills higher, cost billions in subsidies, and burden the local community. Indy Democrats now control the fate of the southside Google data center.
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RT @nkulw: I have so much hate in my heart for the people who spent the first months of the genocide denying that it was happening, denying….
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RT @BL_Balthaser: My mostly 1st gen rust belt students openly hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-report….
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RT @jstewartIndy: 🚨The shell company behind Google’s Indianapolis data center is VERY SIMILAR to the one in Monrovia. ⏰ Registered less tha….
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RT @angryyEgyptian: "I'm not into politics" this sucks cause even the water you drink is political.
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AI bills are skyrocketing đź‘€.
We were promised Cheap AI but it's getting more expensive (to run)! AI token prices drop 10x annually, but new reasoning models burn 100x-1000x more tokens per task. Basic queries need 50-500 tokens while complex workflows consume 100K-1M+. This means AI bills are skyrocketing as
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