Paris Marx

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

i swear i’ve received more than a dozen ai-generated book promotion scam emails in just the past 24 hours. i fucking hate ai.

the new firefox ad is great, but they still need to drop the ai

as a long time fan of paris's work i absolutely loved HYPERSCALE, his new book, which really pulls together so many disparate threads of the data center convo—past, present, in the us and abroad—into a ripping narrative caught up with him about it for my latest power play newsletter!

hello, i'm about to send out the email for the first week of reading Hyperscale by @parismarx.com if you haven't got the book yet, you still have time to buy it - this week we'll be reading the introduction & chapter 1, so it'll be a pretty low-key week of reading.

“i’m so clueless about my own kid i need to get an machine to output generic words to describe her”

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

“We should be asking, how much computation do we really need? How many resources are actually justifiable to put into this project? What are we actually getting out of it?” Read my interview with @mollytaft.com in @wired.com about some of my big takeaways from HYPERSCALE!

“We should be asking, how much computation do we really need? How many resources are actually justifiable to put into this project? What are we actually getting out of it?” Read my interview with @mollytaft.com in @wired.com about some of my big takeaways from HYPERSCALE!

I highly recommend @parismarx.com new book, “Hyperscale.” Pick up a copy and learn more about the history and impacts of giant data centers. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Got my copy of #Hyperscale yesterday. I wore my CONICET shirt and wanted to talk about socioenvironmental struggles in LatAm, about Thiel in Argentina, about digital extractivism, about degrowth. Yet all I could think as @parismarx.com signed my book was "omg you sound just like on the podcast!!" 🙈

Just got tickets for this. Excited to hear from @parismarx.com and @desmondcole.bsky.social! www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

So excited to be discussing my new book HYPERSCALE with Dan McQuillan, whose work has been so influential to my understanding of AI, next Wednesday in London. Make sure to join us if you’re in the city!

My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week! Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with @arimelber.bsky.social to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week! Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with @arimelber.bsky.social to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

“Data center companies claim they will be respectful and considerate neighbors, but too often they hide the extent of the damage that follows from the scale of their demands on local resources.” Data center water use is a real problem. Check out this excerpt from HYPERSCALE in @restofworld.org!

I couldn’t think of anyone better to interview me on my podcast about my new data center book than @lifewinning.com — someone who’s been making the infrastructures of the internet visible for far longer than I have. Check out our conversation — and grab our books!

people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.

what about, i don’t know, taking on the gambling itself? not just the ads for it

So excited to have Paris coming to Duquesne on November 6!! Free to attend online or in person, register now! www.duq.edu/research/cen...

“When the bill comes, and the benefits are compared against the costs, will the industry cheerleading and policy flexibility look like the right move? It is getting harder and harder to see how it will have been.” I wrote about how the generative AI will not pay off — for companies or governments.