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Incoming New Delhi Bureau Chief at The Washington Post | Signal open for tips: @pverma.50
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NEW: Elon Musk made direct appeals to President Trump to reverse his sweeping new tariffs, going around Peter Navarro, the WH trade official he criticized over the weekend. Musk and Tesla have long opposed tariffs. Story: Lizza Dwoskin, @pranshuverma.bsky.social Trisha Thadani and me wapo.st/4j9Jxpl
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs
The world’s richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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If you are a Tesla worker that wants to quit your job at a dealership because it's becoming too dangerous, please reach me on Signal at @pverma.50
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new: Anger at Elon Musk is turning violent. People are burning his cars and shooting his stores, leaving frontline Tesla workers and ordinary vehicle owners to bear the brunt of the anger incited by Musk's politics. w/ Trisha Thadani
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Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots
The string of violence against Tesla storefronts, charging stations and vehicles exacerbates the company’s woes, analysts said
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March 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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new: Anger at Elon Musk is turning violent. People are burning his cars and shooting his stores, leaving frontline Tesla workers and ordinary vehicle owners to bear the brunt of the anger incited by Musk's politics. w/ Trisha Thadani
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Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots
The string of violence against Tesla storefronts, charging stations and vehicles exacerbates the company’s woes, analysts said
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March 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A blind man criticized DOGE on Capitol Hill last week, and Elon Musk responded as he so often does -- by siccing his mob on the man, with a tweet that got 21 million views.

Excellent reporting, via @pranshuverma.bsky.social / Washpost

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Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.
Musk’s unparalleled online reach on X has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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some personal news: Thrilled to be The Washington Post's next New Delhi bureau chief: www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/01/2...
Pranshu Verma named Bureau Chief in New Delhi
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January 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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From @washingtonpost.com story on Musk's "Nazi-style salute": It’s seen by neo-Nazis "as a legitimation, a normalization … a direct validation of their beliefs" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @pranshuverma.bsky.social @byelliesilverman.bsky.social @pietsch.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s inauguration salute stokes debate in Congress, Europe
Elon Musk’s controversial gesture, which some interpreted as a Nazi-style salute, drew criticism from Trump’s political opponents and energized fans on the far-right.
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January 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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As data centers cause America to run out of power, Arizona is emblematic of the sacrifices ordinary people face to fuel the boom.
In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power
As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.
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December 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Excellent reporting about how Big Tech's insatiable desire for AI data is sapping electricity from power grids, leaving many people without basic services or dealing with the fallout from environmentally destructive power plants.

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Screenshot from Washington Post article, reading: "CAMERON, Ariz. — Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electric power, Thomasina Nez’s entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckets of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood-framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unrefrigerated produce rots quickly in the Arizona heat. It’s a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heater after its fumes killed her two dogs." Screenshot from Washington Post article, reading: "Nationwide, concern is rising in local communities about the burgeoning data center industry, with residents complaining that the units bring little in the way of jobs or revenue while straining local resources, raising utility prices and forcing communities to return to outdated and environmentally suspect modes of electricity generation, including coal and natural gas. In drought-ridden Arizona, several towns have passed ordinances deterring tech companies from using water to cool the supercomputers that fuel the artificial intelligence revolution. That has forced the data centers to chill their warehouses with electricity, making the stress on the power grid especially intense, experts said." Screenshot of the Washington Posr article, reading: "After a years-long courtship of Big Tech by local politicians, power companies and utility regulators eager for the promise of tax revenue and jobs, the strain on Arizona’s power grid is already apparent. Often, vulnerable communities are paying the price. While Nez and her neighbors lost a shot at getting power, the historically Black town of Randolph, almost 60 miles south of Phoenix, faces the expansion of a massive natural gas plant that emits particulate matter linked to asthma and lung cancer."
December 23, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Arizona is hiking power rates to support the state’s data center boom — while leaving Navajo residents who have NO electricity to take cold showers in the dark www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power
As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.
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December 23, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Read the entire article here on how AI is exacerbating existing issues re access to electricity in Arizona. This is only going to get worse, unless we stop pretending that AI has no downsides and also MUST be incorporated into every aspect of our lives.

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In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power
As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.
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December 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power. Altho power lines sit near their homes, many Navajo Nation members have been without power for decades.

By Pranshu Verma

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December 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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new: Amid Arizona's AI fueled data center boom, thousands of Native Americans still live without power. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power
As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.
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December 23, 2024 at 6:34 PM