IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

• Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections
• Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach
• Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers
• Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
• Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
• Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud
• Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment
• Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
• Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
• Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!
• OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"
• AI Spenders Get Spooked
• Musk says Grok bot's costs were 'unsustainably high' weeks after touting rapid growth
• He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too
• The best coffee is back at PERC
• Padre's Cofeemaker
• Cupertino

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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