Young people may find it difficult to believe but, in my living memory, there was a broad consensus in US politics that air pollution -- not GHGs, just old fashioned particulates, NOx, etc. -- is bad & worth fighting. Now that concern is going overboard in the pursuit of AI.

Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution

nytimes.com

=> "The State of MPI: Current Standard and Future Plans", M. Schulz, TU München, NHR PerfLab Seminar, Jun 30, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=whpR... hpc.fau.de/files/2026/0... MPI-5.0 was approved, Jun 5, 2025 x.com/ogawa_tter/s... Jack Dongarra, 25 yrs of MPI Symp, Sep 25 2017 x.com/ogawa_tter/s...

https://github.com/chaoss/disclosure is proving to be a very useful tool in analysing disclosure of ai contributions to oss projects.

GitHub - chaoss/disclosure: Github Action to gather signals of disclosed AI contribution to aid community health monitoring tools and open source maintainers

Github Action to gather signals of disclosed AI contribution to aid community health monitoring tools and open source maintainers - chaoss/disclosure

github.com

Some places left at 2026 #HPC Leadership Institute Sept 7-10 Funding, procurement, cost & risk models, acceptance testing, #AIinfra & more. NB the tutorial won't be at #SC26 so this BSC edition is only chance for this learning until next year.

HPC Leadership Training Institute 2026: Balancing Reality and Hype | Andrew Jones posted on the topic | LinkedIn

How can you buy the best #supercomputer in today's world of spiralling #HPC market economics, whilst balancing the reality and hype of #sovereign, #AI, #cloud, and more? Is there a difference between...

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Here's an idea: Just don't use it!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

So, you want to stop climate change? Understanding these four graphs is a good place to start. drawdown.org/insights/the...

The four most important charts for people who want to stop climate change

Four charts provide valuable insights into the spectrum of climate solutions.

drawdown.org

ICYMI: Version mismatches are silently killing your cluster's productivity. @jefflayton.bsky.social shares some tools and strategies to stop the HPC software stack fragmentation problem www.admin-it.io/taming-the-h... #HPC #cluster #administration #SoftwareStack #fragmentation #dependency

A lot of folks like to shout that climate change is “worse than scientists predicted!” But that’s not really true. It’s largely unfolding just as the science has predicted for many decades. My colleague, the brilliant Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains…

Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨 Scientists have been warning for more than a century that catastrophic weather events were inevitable if humanity kept emitting GHG's. But is it worse than even they expected? Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social shares her expert perspective in our latest Insights: https://bit.ly/4wsYPMw

An improvement in this area would be good to see. Hope they can deliver.

The Register@theregister.com · 5d ago

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

🎉 Registration is open for the inaugural International Research Software Conference: tinyurl.com/IRSC-registr... On 7-8 September, leaders and decision-makers from the global #ResearchSoftware community will come together in Sheffield and remotely. One conference. One community. A shared agenda.

Applications for the 2027 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme will open on 10 August 2026. For details and to join the Online Launch Webinar on 20 August see: edin.ac/4515C43 Applications close 5 October 2026.

Two USRSE'26 deadlines coming up ⏰ 🎟️ Early bird registration ends 7/31 📋 Poster submissions close 8/7 The draft program is also live → us-rse.org/usrse26/prog... Cost a barrier? Financial support info for USRSE'26 is here → us-rse.org/usrse26/atte... October 19–21 · San Jose, CA #usrse26 #rse

Full Program

US-RSE Conference 2026

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Not every grid is fading. Texas went the other way: clean won 8% of days in 2019, 56% so far in 2026. Clean Energy Stripes are now live, an interactive site covering different U.S. grids, plus open-source code so anyone can make their own: johnbistline.com/clean-energy...

This is a great data visualization of how regional grids are getting cleaner over time (or not...)

John Bistline@bistline.bsky.social · last wk.

Not every grid is fading. Texas went the other way: clean won 8% of days in 2019, 56% so far in 2026. Clean Energy Stripes are now live, an interactive site covering different U.S. grids, plus open-source code so anyone can make their own: johnbistline.com/clean-energy...

I keep sayin' that the economics of solar would/might save us. Better to hear it from someone with street cred. Please send this TED talk to everyone you know. Tell any and all politicians that they need to get on board. Don't fire up coal, gas, or nuclear—solar/wind is the only way. #billmckibben

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

KUT News requested tours of several data centers in Hays, Travis and Williamson counties. Most companies either declined or did not respond. But the Texas Advanced Computing Center let us peek behind the curtain.

Data centers are being built across Texas every day. Here’s what goes on inside one in Austin

KUT News requested tours of several data centers in Hays, Travis and Williamson counties. Most companies either declined or did not respond. But the Texas Advanced Computing Center let us peek behind…

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The Trump administration appears set on providing the U.S. coal industry all it's asking for, from forcing aging power plants to stay open at great public cost to pushing taxpayer money at far-fetched plans to build new plants. Here's the state of play: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

The coal industry gave Trump a wish list. He’s checking items off it.

The Trump admin is propping up the aging coal fleet despite the financial and environmental costs — and also making far-fetched plans to build new coal…

canarymedia.com

I've added a way of trying Ishmael in the browser. Give it a shot and let me know what you think... ishmael.textualize.io#try

Ishmael — a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac

Ishmael is a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac — beautiful typography, typewriter and focus modes, chapter management, and export to Word, EPUB, HTML, and Markdown.

ishmael.textualize.io

Scientists warned you about: ♨️ more/longer/hotter heatwaves (hot planet=hot weather) 🌀 stronger storms (warm water=hurricane food) 🌧️ downpours (warm air holds more water vapor) 🌵 droughts (warm air is thirstier) 🔥 fire weather (hotter, drier) 🌊 sea level rise (land ice melts, warm water expands)

Big Gas versus a Living Planet--the latest data open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Bloated and Gassy

Trump's...energy policy, and what it's going to cost us all

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New research shows that Trump's AI & energy policies are likely to double the price of fossil gas by the late 2030s.

Pay, Baby, Pay: Why Trump's Energy & AI Dominance Agenda Means Higher Bills For Everyone

Trump's energy and AI agenda could DOUBLE wholesale gas prices over the next decade, outpacing inflation and driving up energy bills.

oilchange.org

Hmmm...what are CAISO and ERCOT doing to have lower wholesale electricity prices in 2025 than in 2019? Well, they have deployed more solar, wind and batteries than any other RTO. Yet, Trump Administration attacks, slows wind and solar. Credit @jkempenergy.bsky.social #energysky

New AI data center oriented NIST SP (draft) leveraging prior work on HPC centers: csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/... "Building upon established principles from high-performance computing ... this publication delivers a thorough threat and security gap analysis for purpose-built AI infrastructure..."

more coming next week - trump is actually turning solar farms into data centers

charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first data center approved on federal lands was greenlit through backroom talks, questionable legal arguments and uncertainty around who even engaged with the Trump administration in the first place. What’s happening in Nevada is a national story.

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

science.org

In my opinion, there is essentially no sign that this is happening, Instead, what can only be described as collusion between AI facility construction and methane gas producers is taking place to set back the sustainability effort in large-scale computing to a horrible degree, and must be challenged.

Data Center Knowledge@datacenter.bsky.social · 2w ago

After the AI Rush, Can Data Centers Reclaim Sustainability? Sustainability’s legacy was sidelined by AI growth and politics, but public scrutiny and hard economics are forcing a course correction. www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainabili...

My latest: How Trump helped turn a solar farm in Nevada into a large data center by claiming both projects have essentially the same impacts, allowing the AI infrastructure to bypass new environmental review For @heatmap.news

How the Trump Administration Turned a Solar Farm Into a Data Center

The local government of Boulder City, Nevada had previously rejected a proposal for the computing facility, which would draw power from the existing electricity supply.

heatmap.news

Stunning is putting it mildly

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Threshold alert: renewables are about to pass coal as the No. 1 global source of electricity.

IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal

Global electricity demand is rising, but booming solar will help renewables overtake coal as the top power source this year, says the IEA.

electrek.co

Texas's ERCOT electricity market hit a record electricity peak demand yesterday, and it was kind of a non-event thanks to abundant solar and energy storage. Graphs from @gridstatus.io