Source: In These Times
by Miles Kampf-Lassin
“Screwworms feeding on cattle across the South, tainted vegetables spreading a parasite causing explosive diarrhea, smoke from wildfires poisoning the air and President Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran surging gas and grocery prices. All would be enough to label summer 2026 a time of crisis in the United States. Still, it’s been made far worse by the brutal heat waves plaguing much of the country …. Every summer is getting hotter, longer and more intense as fossil fuel-spawned climate change warms the globe at an unbridled rate. Now, the pace of these impacts is being accelerated by the rapid spread of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and the energy-guzzling power plants being built to fuel their usage, which Trump has been fervently working to expand.” (08/17/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-centers-palantir