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Cost of Living Concerns with 8-10% annual increase in electricity prices to 2030, pushing back renewable energy targets, neglecting essential investments in infrastructure, for a massive misallocation of capital, are major issues for Data Center Buildup of $2-$3 trillion by Tech companies.
11/16/2025
Tech companies are on a binge. But is it good for Society and the Nation? There are many warning signs.
Grouped Articles
What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom
Pew Research Center 11/16/2025
AI responsibilities too great to be placed on the shoulders of a few computer specialists
11/19/2023
No one talks of climate change risks being tackled by a few technology specialists. AI is too big and the risks so great for humanity to be placed on the shoulders of a few computer specialists. Watching Joanna Stern of WSJ interview Sam Altman and Murali Murthi gives the impression that Altman was moving too quickly and Murthi was saying the right things but lacked the experience and capacity to tackle AI's vast responsibilities. This also stems from the fact that what young Stanford and other tech graduates in their early thirties have done in the last 2 decades ends a chapter in America's tech history. AI is an entirely different technology which requires the involvement of major parts of America's whole technological and scientific community and its society, not just a few individuals. This is also the lesson from the pandemic for virus research where not just the Cambridge, Massachusetts community, a government agency and Chinese researchers needed to be involved, but vast parts of America'a health and medicine scientific community and the American public. A million lives were lost in the pandemic in the US alone, and millions all over the world. It is a lesson that should never be forgotten- that technology can get out of control.
Grouped Articles
Sam Altman Is Out at OpenAI After Board Skirmish
WSJ 11/18/2023
Many Details of Sam Altman’s Ouster Are Murky. But Some Things Are Clear.
NYTimes.com 11/18/2023
Meet Mira Murati, the Engineer Now Leading OpenAI
NYTimes.com 11/18/2023
Sam Altman Is Out at OpenAI; Mira Murati Will Be Interim CEO
WSJ 11/17/2023
Escaping the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others
12/29/2021
If and how it is possible to escape the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others, harmful for girls and the young, and to mental health, diversity, and education that leads to upward mobility, is the subject of a WSJ series in 2021.
Grouped Articles
The TikTok Spiral, Part 1: Descent - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/27/2021
The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/29/2021
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos
WSJ 12/17/2021
Teens Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok May Be A Factor. - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 11/08/2021
Facebook Faces Official Questions in India Over Policing of Hate Speech
WSJ 10/28/2021
Facebook Whistleblower’s Testimony Builds Momentum for Tougher Tech Laws
WSJ 10/05/2021
Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
Grouped Articles
The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/2021
WSJ 09/15/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/2019
WSJ 09/16/2021
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/2021
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
Great American Revival Industry Task Force
04/15/2020
The Trump Business task force has two tasks. How to respond to the economic damage from coronavirus and how to reopen the economy. The president is fine with reopening parts of the economy at a time, with the federal government working together with state governors - the least risk ones going first, the most risk ones coming last done on the advice of health experts. Testing and virus tracking are key issues in reopening the economy with systems that are both efficient and reliable needed for public to have confidence.
Grouped Articles
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing
WSJ 04/15/2020
Infrastructure a top German priority in 2019
08/07/2019
Grouped Articles
Germans Grow Frustrated With Their Slow-Poke Internet
WSJ 08/05/2019
German train passengers get €53 million for delays | DW | 18.02.2019
DW.COM 02/18/2019
Germany agrees €86 billion plan to improve Deutsche Bahn rail network | DW | 26.07.2019
DW.COM 07/26/2019
Microsoft revival under Satya Nadella 2014-2018
11/30/2018
Grouped Articles
Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?
New York Times 11/29/2018
Women in engineering, tech and scientific fields - the UK
06/21/2018
Grouped Articles
Dame Ann Dowling: We need to give engineering a new face for the future
The Times 06/21/2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and transformation of jobs in the future
01/17/2018
Grouped Articles
Ginni Rometty on How AI Is Going to Transform Jobs—All of Them
WSJ 01/17/2018
Big Tech and surveillance technologies in China- tracking citizens as accepted practice
12/06/2017
Grouped Articles
Inside China’s Big Tech Conference, New Ways to Track Citizens
The New York Times 12/05/2017
Trump’s Tough China Tack Wins Over Skeptical CEOs
WSJ 12/08/2018
Demonetization as a fundamental shift by digitzing large parts of the informal economy- new perspectives for India in 2017
11/25/2017
Grouped Articles
Demonetisation: the great reset, a year later
The Hindu 11/08/2017
India Clings to Cash, Even as Tech Firms Push Digital Money
The New York Times 01/07/2018
Times of India Blog 05/30/2018
India's 2017 Supreme Court decision on privacy rights and data protection
08/28/2017
Grouped Articles
The Hindu 08/27/2017
Huge mismatch between profits of $20 billion and investment of $400 billion for AI in 2025 and $1.5 trillion in spending to 2028 that is crowding out investments in repairing America's crumbling infrastructure, manufacturing, renewable energy, housing, health, education
11/16/2025
Grouped Articles
The shutdown is over, but the nation’s aviation problems are not.
The Washington Post 11/16/25
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale Insights 11/15/25
Simple maths says the AI investment boom ends badly
Firstlinks 11/15/25
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press 11/15/25
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
The Wall Street Journal 11/12/25
Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/25
Expanding Indian ties to the European Union in manufacturing, trade and advanced technologies
03/07/2023
Italy signs a strategic partnership agreement with India. President Scholz of Germany visits India with a business delegation. Siemens plans railway modernization manufacturing plants in India. New aviation sector is being built with French and US assistance and a huge order from Air India. Denmark's Maersk and other Danish companies help build the port logistics in India after a business and trade agreement with Denmark. The European Union joins the US in building a new supply chain based in India to replace one that caused inflation and bottlenecks, and was seen as a security risk with concentration of the supply chain in one country.
Grouped Articles
India, Italy elevate ties to strategic partnership, sign MoU on defence cooperation
The Hindu 03/02/23
Germany's Scholz in India: What's at stake? – DW – 02/25/2023
dw.com 02/28/23
On India visit, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz drinks tea at a street corner in Delhi
The Hindu 02/27/23
Siemens partners with India on railway modernization – DW – 02/27/2023
dw.com 02/27/23
The Hindu 12/04/22
A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition
The Hindu 02/08/23
Serious rethink of existing global supply chains
10/05/2021
Redesign of global supply chains is underway.
Grouped Articles
Supply chain crisis causes rethink at multinationals
10/03/21
‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
The Guardian 10/02/21
East Asia’s Economies Face Slowing Growth and Rising Inequality, World Bank Warns
WSJ 09/28/21
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable
WSJ 06/19/21
For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap?
NYTimes.com 05/11/21
Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy of Amazon- the growth story of cloud computing and online retail
02/04/2021
Grouped Articles
Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
WSJ 02/03/21
Jeff Bezos Exits as CEO, but His Role at Amazon Will Likely Little Change
WSJ 02/04/21
Jeff Bezos to stand down as Amazon chief executive
The Times 02/04/21
Profile: Andy Jassy, the new Amazon boss taking over from Jeff Bezos
The Times 02/04/21
Amazon: End of an era but also the dawn of a new day
The Times 02/04/21
Great American Revival Industry Task Force
04/15/2020
The Trump Business task force has two tasks. How to respond to the economic damage from coronavirus and how to reopen the economy. The president is fine with reopening parts of the economy at a time, with the federal government working together with state governors - the least risk ones going first, the most risk ones coming last done on the advice of health experts. Testing and virus tracking are key issues in reopening the economy with systems that are both efficient and reliable needed for public to have confidence.
Grouped Articles
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing
WSJ 04/15/20
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/20
Telemedicine revolutionizing the medical profession in 2020 with coronavirus crisis
03/26/2020
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Virtual Doctors Are Here to Stay
WSJ 03/26/20
BBC Black Hole images from galaxy M87- so large, larger than the Solar System galaxy
04/10/2019
Grouped Articles
First ever black hole image released
BBC News 04/10/19
China's investments in U.S. tech firms
06/25/2018
Grouped Articles
Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports to China
WSJ 06/25/18
China's response to the tariffs on steel and high tech products of the Trump administration in 2018
04/04/2018
Grouped Articles
China Threatens U.S. Cars, Planes and Soy in Response to Trump
WSJ 04/04/18
Tariff Showdown Shifts to Intense Negotiation Period
WSJ 04/05/18
Trump’s Tariff List Aims at China’s Exports—and Aspirations
WSJ 04/04/18
A Trump Win on China Tariffs Could Aid Auto Plants in U.S. —Just Not American Ones
WSJ 04/20/18
Treasury Secretary Says U.S., China Have Suspended Tariffs
WSJ 05/21/18
China has ‘nuclear options’ in trade war with US ... really?
South China Morning Post 05/25/18
Tech and Journalism
01/09/2018
Grouped Articles
Tapping Technology to Advance the Future of Journalism
The New York Times 01/03/18
The issue of net neutrality in 2017 with changes by the Trump administration
11/29/2017
Grouped Articles
The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.
The New York Times 11/29/17
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
The New York Times 12/14/17
The negative effect of the use of tablets, iPads, and laptops in classes- how technology leads to less learning
11/24/2017
Studies at Princeton and UCLA showing the negative effects on learning of the use of laptops in classes.
Grouped Articles
Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting.
The New York Times 11/22/17
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