# common wisdom — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover common wisdom. Page: Feed: --- ## [I'm very skeptical that China has played a meaningful role in the US data center backlash](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/im-very-skeptical-that-china-has) _2026-08-08 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ The evidence we have is pretty weak ## [Toward liberal environmentalism](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-environmental-liberalism) _2026-07-10 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ The underlying normative claim of my environmental writing ## [A conversation with my city planner friend Curtis on a recent data center moratorium in Holyoke MA](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-conversation-with-my-city-planner) _2026-07-07 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ I recorded a conversation with my friend Curtis who until a few years ago was a city planner in Holyoke MA and had a lot of thoughts on a recent data center moratorium there. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205715849/b263370ee28759b3c6419122e5305eae.mp3) ## [AI art as curation](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-art-as-curation) _2026-07-03 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Asking whether AI art involves real creativity mostly misses what's interesting about it ## [What does it mean for AI to be democratic?](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-be-democratic) _2026-06-21 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications ## [A plug for a tool I made to show how little most current AI chatbots add to your emissions and water use, with citations](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-plug-for-a-tool-i-made-to-show) _2026-06-11 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Take this and share it, you don't need to mention me ## [A simple trick to fix the data center debate](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-simple-trick-to-fix-the-data-center) _2026-06-06 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Remove the status quo bias by asking "would we spend this much in tax revenue to avoid the externalities of the data center?" ## [Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-think-panic-about-local-impacts) _2026-06-04 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ A request for counter examples ## [A history of the data center panic - part 1](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-history-of-the-data-center-panic) _2026-05-20 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Pre-ChatGPT and the creation of common wisdom ## [A crash course on US air pollution](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-crash-course-on-us-air-pollution) _2026-05-19 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Data centers and air pollution - part 1 ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Zs0lDGCdGbe6) _2026-05-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Let's not compare data center heat exhaust to nuclear bombs](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/lets-not-compare-data-center-heat) _2026-05-11 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Why dropping hundreds of nuclear bombs on Washington DC every day is pretty normal ## [Data center land use issues are fake](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-are-fake) _2026-05-02 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland ## [To be clear, I do understand how sound works](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/to-be-clear-i-do-understand-how-sound) _2026-04-24 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ Replying to a criticism of my last post ## [Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center-and) _2026-04-19 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ One of the most popular videos made about data centers ever is a complete moment-by-moment disaster ## [Training AI models doesn't emit that much](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/training-ai-models-doesnt-emit-that) _2026-04-12 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ If we just make reasonable comparisons instead of crazy ones ## [What's blocking Waymo in DC and how can we fix it?](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/whats-blocking-waymo-in-dc-and-how) _2026-04-03 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ The very late DDOT report is only part of the story ## [Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they're built](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not) _2026-03-31 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ A terrible paper and even worse interpretation is threatening to become common wisdom ## [A call for more specific and numerate climate communication](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-call-for-more-specific-and-numerate) _2026-03-11 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ There's too much low-hanging fruit going unpicked, and it's relatively easy to pick ## [AI can obviously create new knowledge](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-can-obviously-create-new-knowledge) _2025-12-08 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ But maybe not new concepts ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RpiPCZ6LeSlq) _2025-12-08 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [Empire of AI is wildly misleading about AI water use](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/empire-of-ai-is-wildly-misleading) _2025-11-16 · Andy Masley · Andy Masley_ And the media environment that didn't catch this is getting this issue wrong