Computer networking: Con: the computers can conspire together Pro: beat 1 computer and the rest can see
Erin / Terra Rose@erinrose.bsky.social · 2w agoon-premise hosting is superior because computers respond well to dominant women - remote servers can’t physically see their operator, and as such won’t feel intimidated by her.
This sounds like an expensive system to replace two baggage handlers.
Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2w agoMuch credit to the New York Times! Trump didn't like their coverage of his bribery plane, so they upped the stakes!
PE buys local HVAC, plumbers, electricians, etc. Same name, new controls, with scripts, tablets and check items billed. National chain, local brand. Slick ad card in the mail, offers septic service. House was built on city sewer in 1980. Surveillance capitalism is dumb and shit at its job.
In the real world, saying "Store bought tomatoes are better than garden tomatoes" will cause normal people to question your grip on reality.
That a solar panel makes real electricity isn't intuitive. Electricity needs vast infrastructure. Networks of pipelines, mile wide coal pits. Even hydro is dramatic. All visible work, to make watts. A panel is static, and also makes watts. It is a sly and epic creation, a great accomplishment.
i live 45 miles west of what was eastern time zone, and then Indiana started jacking around with their stuff. Then flying out of Indy required the website "what the hell time is it in Indianapolis right now?" For DST, keep or get rid of it, just don't move the fricking lines around.
Big Tech leaders say they love nuclear power. The last US nuclear plant built came online in 2024, costing $15B. That's 1.5% of Musk's $1T net worth. Why is he not building three of them? Is nuclear too expensive and slow for even him and the AI companies? They don't believe their own BS.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
The last nuclear reactor built in the US cost $15B. Elon Musk can buy 3 with 5% of his net worth and earn profits(advocates say). What explains nuclear's inability to find buyers in a market flooded with maniacs and money for the most energy hungry product in history? Coffee is for closers.
Good story, sounds familiar to me (less dramatic cardiac problem in my case).
Jim Thompson@gonzopancho.bsky.social · 3w agoSo, Graham died of an aortic dissection. This is something I have a bit of experience with, as I have a dissection that’s runs from about 1mm from my aortic root (close to the heart) and runs full length to the illiac artery high in my left leg. Thread:
This small paper's article reports data center project numbers well. Quality work. 100 MW data center. 20 buildings, 400 acres (2/3 sq mile) 50k gallons of water daily. Initial fill of 1.6M gallons Water source currently pumps 1.375M g/day. 2 groups opposing, claim 25k members.
IL Energy Network@ilenergynetwork.bsky.social · 3w agoCommunity groups presenting unified front against Grayslake data center
Claims that Ukraine is attacking Russian cargo ships with medium drones. The drones aren't big enough to sink ships, so they try to disable navigation. By attacking the bridges of the ships. Has a real "fuck that captain right there" feel to it. That's a miserable job right now.
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy is Ukraine suddenly dominating the Sea of Azov? In just 6 days, over 70 russian ships—mostly shadow-fleet oil tankers and tugs—have been damaged or destroyed. Tonight alone saw 28 hit. 🧵 1/
Data center PPA contracts buy future power, so less power is for sale. Power prices rise, like RAM prices rose 4x when they bought it. Prices rise for phones, computers, anything w/RAM. They buy cheap clean power we paid to help build. You get to bid on the leftovers. They drink your milkshake.
PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · last mo."The cost of clean energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) is set to increase by between 40 per cent and 120 per cent once Inflation Reduction Act subsidies for solar and wind projects end."
Axios and Politico will not write anything about tonight's celebration in DC tomorrow, or ever. Just easier to be quiet than risk it.
California on track to use 50% less natural gas than last year, and 60% less than in 2024. From the awesome gridstate.io site. www.gridstatus.io/trends/caiso...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch playing at the National Mall.
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last mo.The National Endowment for the Arts stage has a solo performer up there right now. He is playing an audience of one. He just urged her to follow him on Instagram. I have seen larger audiences at 8am academic panels. I feel bad for the guy.
Ah, the semi-annual "Nest requires you to type your password, unless you'd like to use Google" on my Nest app. Fuck you, Google, and you know why I won't update, though you bought Nest. Shouldn't have shut down Reader, just because RSS didn't display ads.
Let's stop calling solar, wind, batteries, and pumped hydro names like renewables, or clean, or green, or anything like that. Let's name them accurately. The cheapest electricity.
Solar makes the cheapest power. Cheap surplus solar in batteries is driving gas plants off the grid. Burning nothing. The global transition to the cheapest, cleanest electricity ever made, abundant everywhere, is happening now. Not grim austerity and constraints. And it will change the world.
One person could pay for all annual global fossil fuel spending. Wells, mines, storage facilities, refineries, pipelines, ships, trains, millions of people, billions of barrels, cubic feet, and tons a day. The largest industry in history. All of it. One person. That's the scale of a trillion.
International Energy Agency@iea.org · last mo.Global energy spending is on track to reach $3.4 trillion in 2026 Around $2.2 trillion of this is set to go to grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, nuclear, renewables, efficiency & electrification And about $1.2 trillion goes to oil, natural gas & coal: iea.li/3QUYR09
Stop saying they've spent $30B in the war with Iran. They stated $25B in the first days of bombing, in February. Nobody has given an updated accounting of spending. There's an aircraft carrier group out there. It was more than $30B 3 months ago.
Small jet, low enough its signal lights colorize my lawn in strobe, on the south run to the turn and approach to the runway 5 miles away, as thunder idles around, and lightning illuminates random clouds, and then one stick crickle crackles visibly near. Should be fine, but scurry, little jet.
Planned US data centers list projected demand at 333 GW. Peak demand for the Lower 48 states was 758 GW on July 28, 2025. Current DC's are 25 GW. Plans to add 333 GW new load to a 758 GW grid is... ambitious. A nuclear plant is 1 GW. 333 GW is 4x record load in TX, 6x record in CA.
Solar and wind generation in CA produces so much excess power that batteries charged during its peaks are filling in that lavender colored lump in the evening. I now officially have a crush on the California electrical grid. It's amazing.
Lawrence Vulis@lvulis.bsky.social · 3mo agoCAISO nighttime gas usage is dropping to a couple percent. We're almost all renewable + some imports all day. California energy knowers, is the duck curve disappearing here?? We also just got daytime TOU rates that promote 10 am - 2 pm usage. 🔌💡
