With some 300 data centers already in operation and 200 more in development,

80 GW of new gas plants into construction. The half is reserved for data centers.

The colossal Stargate project is using minor permits, that allows 62 backup diesel generators. That's 1.6 million tons of CO2a and 1000 tons of air pollutants. It's not minor anymore.

In several cases, data centers secured these permits before seeking massive expansions later on, deploying a “small first, big later” strategy that watchdogs say limits public input and creates unstoppable momentum for their projects.

Stargate expanded for example the next year 4 times more turbines and 30% increase of generators.

As John Quiggin writes, the pre-2020 Musk was the Musk of Tesla, batteries and Starlink. The post-2020 Musk is the Musk of Starship, robotaxis, Cybertrucks and Twitter – a string of commercial flops and assets that literally exploded.

It matches the "Dead Economy Theory" from https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory.

The actual dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles.

That's not just a dead economy – it's one that'll kill everyone you love and everything that matters.

Let's Encrypt bans its usage to countries sanctioned by the USA to conform to the U.S. law. That's added page 3.

You are not a person or entity that is:
(a) located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory that is the target of comprehensive U.S. sanctions;
(b) a prohibited or restricted party under U.S. or other applicable sanctions and export control laws and regulations; or
(c) owned or controlled by or acting on behalf of anyone described in (a) or (b). You agree to use Let’s Encrypt Certificates and any services provided by or on behalf of ISRG in compliance with applicable U.S. export control and sanctions laws and regulations.

It's ironic and someone pointed it out: "Let's Encrypt’s mission is to create a more secure and privacy-respecting web, except for people residing in countries with the most need for a more secure and privacy-respecting web. Sure, that's great."

We need an European alternative. Search on web directories related to EU alternatives and you get https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/lets-encrypt

That's why some are already migrating away https://souverain.ovh/certificat-ssl-souverainete-numerique-actalis/

Trouve les dépendances américaines à partir d'une URL. Le site retourne un score de santé sur la souveraineté des technologies utilisées.

Le FBI, la CISA, la NSA, l'EPA, le département de l'Énergie et le Cyber Command américain ont publié un avis conjoint. [...] Six agences fédérales qui publient un avis commun, ça donne une idée de la gravité du truc. Le fait que des hackers puissent encore trouver des automates industriels directement accessibles depuis internet en 2026, c'est quand même assez idiot. Surtout quand ils contrôlent des stations d'eau ou des centrales énergétiques.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/07/politics/iran-linked-hackers-disrupt-us-industrial-sites

Thoughts about people living in the USA

Le gouvernement exploite les IA pour son propre intérêts. Exemple où aucune entreprise ne doit y échapper.

Les investissements ont financé la croissance, qui semble reposer sur rien de concret pour le moment.

Similarly, https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

About the "the Civilian Conservation Corps, which went on to employ 3m workers (5% of the US male workforce!)"

Laut Reuters ist eine VPN-Funktion vorgesehen, die den Nutzerdatenverkehr als US-amerikanisch erscheinen lässt.

freedom.gov is the reserved domain for it.

It's only a political move, because there are already VPNs outside of the EU

Un enfant de 5 ans arrêté et détenu par l'ICE afin de capturer sa mère

In 2023, the FTC ordered the company to pay $5.8 million over claims that employees and contractors had unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years.

Great

Le ministère des Affaires étrangères (State Department) des États-Unis a interdit à cinq Européens d’entrer sur son territoire, les accusant d’avoir obligé les entreprises de la tech à censurer ou invisibiliser les points de vue de la population américaine.

(via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?5NMG-Q)

Une expertise juridique commandée par le ministère allemand de l'Intérieur confirme ce que beaucoup redoutaient : les autorités américaines peuvent accéder aux données stockées sur des serveurs européens. La localisation physique des données ne protège en rien contre la surveillance américaine.

1. Le Cloud Act (et le Stored Communications Act, et la Section 702 du FISA) ignore les frontières
2. Microsoft avoue ne rien pouvoir garantir
3. Le chiffrement ne suffit pas, puisque le droit américain peut exiger des fournisseurs qu'ils conservent les données en clair.

Les clauses contractuelles et les labels « cloud européen » ne suffisent pas à contourner les lois extraterritoriales américaines