Climate Rally is June 10

On June 10 in Springfield, Massachusetts, there will be a climate rally outside the office of Eversource, a corporation that sells electricity to homes and businesses in more than 140 towns and cities in Massachusetts. Details are at:

https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-utility-profits-springfield...

One of the organizers is the Sierra Club.

On May 20, the Democrat-controlled Vermont legislature passed a bill to regulate data centers. The Republican governor has hinted that he will veto it. Data centers are being built nation-wide largely because of AI. By 2028, AI “could consume as much electricity annually as 22 percent of all US households." That's according to this MIT web page:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-clim...

The New Yorker magazine said one of the best books of 2025 was, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” The book's companion web site says, “In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction.... Sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us... If it comes to conflict, an artificial super-intelligence would crush us.”

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In Amherst on May 28, there will be a union rally. The rally will be at 2 p.m. outside the nursing home at 150 University Drive. Details are available from the Western Mass Area Labor Federation.

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