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      <title>Overblown: “New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions” (Futurism)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Sierra Club's math is real, but it is an unpublished high-end scenario that assumes every planned project gets built and runs on gas, and 'set to wipe out' states as settled something its own source called a risk.</description>
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      <title>Overblown: “Teens Who Use AI for Companionship Face Highest Rates of Suicidal Thoughts, JED Study Finds” (TechTimes)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There is a real link: students who use AI for friendship or companionship are about twice as likely to report ever having had suicidal thoughts. But they are not the highest group in JED's own tables, and a one-time survey can't show that AI use causes the risk.</description>
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