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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0d530-82a2-7376-b8fd-c6fa24fe2f54", "title": "What I get out of effective altruism", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/what-i-get-out-of-effective-altruism/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T13:44:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d530-82a2-7376-b8fd-c6fa25c37080", "title": "Don’t treat surface-level metaphors about AI as if they describe fundamental reality", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/dont-treat-surface-level-metaphors/", "published_at": "2026-09-19T03:17:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e300695e8", "title": "AI safety and the data center backlash", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/ai-safety-and-the-data-center-backlash/", "published_at": "2026-09-01T11:50:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e3085e5c7", "title": "I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/i-think-the-data-center-backlash/", "published_at": "2026-08-25T19:08:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e30e8e8ba", "title": "Thinking about other industries like we think about data centers shows how impoverished the debate is", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/other-large-industries-show-how-impoverished/", "published_at": "2026-08-18T19:33:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e30f89d98", "title": "I’m very skeptical that China has played a meaningful role in the US data center backlash", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/im-very-skeptical-that-china-has/", "published_at": "2026-08-08T01:52:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e31937475", "title": "Toward liberal environmentalism", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/toward-environmental-liberalism/", "published_at": "2026-07-10T04:57:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e320d258f", "title": "AI art as curation", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/ai-art-as-curation/", "published_at": "2026-07-03T05:10:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e32c2e311", "title": "What does it mean for AI to be democratic?", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-be-democratic/", "published_at": "2026-06-21T01:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e33982967", "title": "A plug for a tool I made to show how little most current AI chatbots add to your emissions and water use, with citations", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/a-plug-for-a-tool-i-made-to-show/", "published_at": "2026-06-11T02:46:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e341e23e7", "title": "A simple trick to fix the data center debate", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/a-simple-trick-to-fix-the-data-center/", "published_at": "2026-06-06T16:03:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e34b7479d", "title": "Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic", "url": "https://andymasley.com/writing/why-i-think-panic-about-local-impacts/", "published_at": "2026-06-04T05:13:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08729-9eff-73aa-845c-a08e34b77d71", "title": "A history of the data center panic - 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2026

What I get out of effective altruismoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Don’t treat surface-level metaphors about AI as if they describe fundamental realityoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
AI safety and the data center backlashoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centersoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Thinking about other industries like we think about data centers shows how impoverished the debate isoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
I’m very skeptical that China has played a meaningful role in the US data center backlashoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
Toward liberal environmentalismoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
AI art as curationoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
What does it mean for AI to be democratic?original ↗
21 Jun 2026
A plug for a tool I made to show how little most current AI chatbots add to your emissions and water use, with citationsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
A simple trick to fix the data center debateoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panicoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
A history of the data center panic - part 1original ↗
20 May 2026
A crash course on US air pollutionoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
Let’s not compare data center heat exhaust to nuclear bombsoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
Data center land use issues are fakeoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
To be clear, I do understand how sound worksoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fakeoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
Training AI models doesn’t emit that muchoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
What’s blocking Waymo in DC and how can we fix it?original ↗
3 Apr 2026
Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re builtoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
A call for more specific and numerate climate communicationoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026

2025

AI can obviously create new knowledgeoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
A Playbook for New EA Groupsoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
Empire of AI is wildly misleading about AI water useoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2025
A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn’t bad for the environmentoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2025
The lump of cognition fallacyoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
A list of other catastrophes that are probably fakeoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
It’s much easier to hold computers accountable than it is to hold humans accountableoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
Data centers and low social trustoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2025
An armchair diagnosis of the chatbot moral panicoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
Always mask at airportsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
A lot of arguments for legalizing autonomous vehicles in your cityoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 2: Problems for Cartesianismoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2025
AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 1: Defining the Problemoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
Requests for journalists covering AI and the environmentoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2025
The main way I’ve seen people turn ideologically crazyoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
A few meta points on my posts on AI and the environmentoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2025
Slop implies capabilityoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
The AI water issue is fakeoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2025
Data centers & electricity - part 1: as of 2025 they haven’t raised national pricesoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
What a data center isoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
More Perfect Union videos are wildly deceptive on data center water useoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
For the climate, little things don’t add uporiginal ↗
14 Sept 2025
What’s the full “hidden” climate cost of a ChatGPT prompt?original ↗
8 Sept 2025
Do data centers only seem bad for the climate because we can see them?original ↗
6 Sept 2025
Jevons’ Paradox is good sometimesoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Mapping the AI & environment debateoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
The core simple reason I think AI is valuableoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2025
An example of what I consider a misleading article about AI and the environmentoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025
When making cuts for the climate, always consider the value you’re getting per unit energy, not just the total energy usedoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
A ton of AI images I’ve made that I’ve likedoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2025