Notable links: May 29, 2026On sustainably building tech that serves humanity.Ben Werdmuller·May 30·14 min readKnow your Point CIn his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful fewData Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begunwith real knock-on effects for communities
When the AI boom subsides, the data centers will remain. What we do now mattersData centers are the new factories. How we think about the precedents they set matters.Ben Werdmuller·May 27·3 min readData Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begun, by Edd Gent at SingularityHubwith real knock-on effects for communitiesdon’t actually show if people’s lives are improvingdevelopers are considering building distributed data centers into people’s homes
