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Living next to the cloud: MA residents claim data center is ruining their neighborhood.

u/Carlosallmight4 — 1 day ago
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Flock's surveillance cameras went from scattered dots to covering America in less than two years

This map shows the increase in Flock cameras over a 2 year period.

The top image is November 18, 2024.
The bottom image is August 17, 2026.

Those blue dots are reported automated license plate reader cameras across the U.S.

In 2024, the map was still relatively sparse. By 2026, huge parts of the country are covered in blue.

And this is only a crowdsourced map, meaning these are just the cameras people have actually found and reported.

u/MaleficentSlide9876 — 1 day ago

Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify as 29 states accuse Meta of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to hook kids

u/Otherwise-Meek-67 — 1 day ago
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Jason Kelce and Liquid Death ask fans to mail their urine to AI data centers

u/KeanuRave100 — 1 day ago
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A North Texas county has shut down its network of Flock automated license plate reader cameras, saying the technology amounted to warrantless surveillance of residents going about their daily lives.

u/SockOk5701 — 2 days ago
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An Amazon-owned site in Pecos County, Texas, received a permit to release up to 33 million tons of CO2... This is more than even the largest coal plant in the country emits.

u/Alarm-Solid — 2 days ago
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Need public transit? Form a committee. Need more cameras? Grab a ladder

u/FoxLynx64 — 3 days ago
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"They take away your jobs, your water, your children": Rep. Ryan Zinke dismisses community outrage over AI data centers, claiming the criticism is pushed by foreign enemies

u/DumbMoneyMedia — 2 days ago

President Trump on Flock cameras: "You have pros and cons. It's being studied right now. We'll have an answer sort of as to our views on it over the next couple weeks"

u/Spirited-Gold9629 — 3 days ago
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Attorneys general from across the country agree that Meta has built an addictive and exploitative product, just like tobacco executives did 30 years ago.

u/BeheadingBoomer61 — 3 days ago