The New York post should basically never be used as a source and this article is a great example of why. It is just obviously not journalism as most people would recognize the concept. Everything they post is ragebait, clickbait or both. They are institutionally allergic to any form of nuance.
I was completly with you till the last moment when you posted... Exactly another of the same type of article.
Can we have a news feed the is parsed and checked again other sources to deliver the highest proportion of base factually unambiguous data, with maybe a tier 2/3 probable analysis/opinions as optional overlays?
Seems doable
I can’t help the fact that the original article has a perspective on the matter. But I do know I would always prefer original reporting than what is basically a badly written blogspam rewrite.
Ground news was started by the right wing to shift the Overton window rightward. It's funded by Joe Ricketts, a conspicuous conservative super-PAC donor and gets its bias scores from AllSides, which grew out of Republican organizations.
Hmmm... normally I would dismiss this type of comment. But such a service really shouldn't have to be funded by anyone, let alone political donors to any party.
Ideal service should be local small model run as a self hosted federated instance, piped data to your terminal of choice. The opinion layer could be pulled from federated comments, the analysis layer from sources based on some sort of trust rating. Variance from unambiguous data for instance. RSS friendly maybe?
If I have nothing better to do later I will try to start writing it maybe.
Can you provide citations for all you claim? Ground News was founded in 2017 by Canadian siblings Harleen Kaur and Sukh Singh, through the University of Waterloo's startup ecosystem. I cannot find any evidence of what you say about its origin story, and to be honest I think you made it up (or are passing along claims that someone else made up)
Receiving investments from people affiliated with the GOP doesn’t seem itself that bad, unless you are so partisan that you yourself are infected with exactly the thing the site aims to combat. Left wing bias is also toxic in certain media sources and should be avoided unless you don’t actually care about bias and are more interested in an agenda.
> I was completly with you till the last moment when you posted... Exactly another of the same type of article.
Heh yeah. Sounded to me like “I agree with everything but realized this is a right wing article and just can’t.. so here’s a left wing rage bait instead”
I said nothing about politics, you are reading your own stuff into it. I linked to the original reporting that every other article is a rewrite of. Sorry that you find it biased.
The article seems to just say, google cleared trees without a permit, it says where they did this and when.
At most maybe the headline implies they did it evily, where it sounds more likely it was beuticratic screw up. But on the whole the article seems to stick to the facts.
> the cool climate makes it especially attractive for saving on energy costs.
How cool climate helps saving energy ? My naive understanding is it helps with cooling which is mostly done by evaporating water. Does they also cool DS by compressing and expanding fluids?
If it takes chinese propaganda to convince the us and eu to give a shit about the impending climate collapse and local environmental damage caused by data centers, we’re the idiots.
You are indeed idiots, if you think that climate collapse is a bigger and more acute threat to EU than the coming economic collapse caused by lack of growth and innovation compared to US and China. More environmental regulations will not help Europe rebuild the industrial base it needs to defend itself against Russia+China without the US.
Ranking an existential threat to our species higher than an economic recession is how Europe ended up where it is today. Climate change will not be solved by austerity anyway (quite the opposite). The only thing austerity would accomplish is fade Europe into global irrelevance.
Ranking existential threat higher than economic recession is orthogonal to austerity. If your problem is austerity, complain about that - not climate action. Or, well, inaction.
Even orgs like AP or Reuters cannot always be trusted. They do a more reasonable job in most cases, but this just makes it easier for when they do inevitably deploy influence operations bc they can hide behind their credibility.
Calling out the Post and linking to the Guardian is borderline a comedic bit. "That right wing tabloid is totally deranged, instead read something like my left wing tabloid."
I make no comment on the political bias of the outlets. My comment was all about who actually reported these facts and who regurgitated a terrible summary.
In what way is the Guardian’s article any less ragebait? They’re both presenting an utter non-story as some environmental catastrophe for “datacenter bad” ragebait
croisillon 16 hours ago
183 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638
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semiquaver 16 hours ago
Here is the (much, much higher quality) original reporting that this terrible ny post writeup is based on: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/...
jubilee33 16 hours ago
Can we have a news feed the is parsed and checked again other sources to deliver the highest proportion of base factually unambiguous data, with maybe a tier 2/3 probable analysis/opinions as optional overlays? Seems doable
z_ 15 hours ago
You may enjoy Kagi’s News offering. Linked is the same topic.
martinjc 15 hours ago
cluckindan 15 hours ago
semiquaver 15 hours ago
ethersteeds 15 hours ago
Here's their page for this story: https://ground.news/article/google-knocks-down-250-thousand-...
It also links to related coverage, such as the project being cancelled in response to the outrage.
bryanlarsen 14 hours ago
snapplebobapple 5 hours ago
jubilee33 13 hours ago
Ideal service should be local small model run as a self hosted federated instance, piped data to your terminal of choice. The opinion layer could be pulled from federated comments, the analysis layer from sources based on some sort of trust rating. Variance from unambiguous data for instance. RSS friendly maybe?
If I have nothing better to do later I will try to start writing it maybe.
semiquaver 13 hours ago
Receiving investments from people affiliated with the GOP doesn’t seem itself that bad, unless you are so partisan that you yourself are infected with exactly the thing the site aims to combat. Left wing bias is also toxic in certain media sources and should be avoided unless you don’t actually care about bias and are more interested in an agenda.
bryanlarsen 9 hours ago
cluckindan 15 hours ago
semiquaver 15 hours ago
goalieca 15 hours ago
Heh yeah. Sounded to me like “I agree with everything but realized this is a right wing article and just can’t.. so here’s a left wing rage bait instead”
semiquaver 13 hours ago
tempest_ 15 hours ago
Disagree.
Most people would think this is journalism. This is the kind of journalism most people are interacting with in 2026.
bawolff 15 hours ago
The article seems to just say, google cleared trees without a permit, it says where they did this and when.
At most maybe the headline implies they did it evily, where it sounds more likely it was beuticratic screw up. But on the whole the article seems to stick to the facts.
aziaziazi 15 hours ago
How cool climate helps saving energy ? My naive understanding is it helps with cooling which is mostly done by evaporating water. Does they also cool DS by compressing and expanding fluids?
shawabawa3 15 hours ago
Also evaporative cooling is not used in most of the world, only in very hot and dry places
lrasinen 15 hours ago
phpnodejspwn 16 hours ago
Or did China spark the fire in western countries to care about this stuff?
kennywinker 15 hours ago
Marha01 14 hours ago
kennywinker 14 hours ago
Marha01 14 hours ago
kennywinker 11 hours ago
lazide 15 hours ago
It does almost seem like it, doesn’t it?
RunSet 15 hours ago
andsoitis 15 hours ago
Why not news sources that eschew emotional manipulation, like Associated Press or Reuters. They aim for information rather than propaganda.
mhh__ 15 hours ago
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WarmWash 15 hours ago
semiquaver 15 hours ago
ion_trapper 16 hours ago