How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments

• Sam Altman’s “AI empire” alone is using as much power as New York City and San Diego, combined
• Google’s AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of power, with electricity use hitting 30.8 million megawatt-hours in 2024, nearly doubling since 2020 — while inking deals with the Israeli military
• Elon Musk’s xAI has constructed the world’s largest AI supercenter, Colossus, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the country’s most impoverished cities

Thirty-five years after the Pinatubo eruption forced them from their ancestral lands, the Aetas of Kalangitan are still fighting to recover the abundance they once knew

This is the first of a three-part series examining how the Aeta resettlement community in Kalangitan in Capas, Tarlac fares 35 years after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.