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On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “isn’t it strange that we were taught to fear the witches, but not the men who burned them?” —@Laura “The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they’ll need when their bubble deflates.” —@Dan Gilmore Electronic Waste Expected to Triple by 2030 Amid Surge in Server and Data Center Upgrades In the United States, nearly 5,000 data centers are either under construction or in planning stages, driven by growing demands for artificial intelligence computing power. By 2030, these facilities will require approximately 100 gigawatts of new energy capacity. Servers within these centers are replaced every 2 to 5 years, and by 2030, discarded…