There are lots of reasons Americans are firmly against AI, but perhaps the biggest is what it will do to your electric bills. A Bloomberg News analysis found that areas near data centers electricity costs increase as much as 267% compared to five years ago. And if you think it’s bad now, just wait until they resume building nuclear plants, the most expensive way to generate power we bother with.
Suede was one of the Big 4 of Britpop (Oasis, Blur and Pulp were the other three), a movement that started in the UK as a reaction against American grunge and British shoegaze and was mostly ignored in the America. Three of Suede’s five albums went to No. 1 in the UK; none made Billboard’s 200-LP chart. (It didn’t help that a singer who goes by the same name sued for trademark infringement and won, forcing them to go by London Suede in the U.S.)
“Electricity” was the lead single from 1999’s “Head Music,” the band’s fourth album and last to hit No. 1 in the UK. It reached No. 5, but it was one of Britpop’s last gasps. Suede disbanded in 2003 and reformed in 2010. They’re still popular in Britain and virtually unknown in the U.S.
