Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In recent years, we have also seen a rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres, with significant energy, water, and climate consequences. In part, this is to power generative AI technologies whose benefits remain dubious, but it also ensures the cloud businesses of those companies continue to grow at a rapid pace.</p><p>The government should not be subjecting itself to the corporate pressures to increase the amount of computation it requires and the number of AI tools it uses beyond what is necessary, all to serve the bottom lines of cloud companies. Developing its own infrastructure means the Canadian government can build what it needs and ensure it does appropriate assessment of new technologies to see if they will actually help the public service and benefit Canadians more broadly.</p><p>Over time, that infrastructure could serve as the foundation of a new set of digital services and platforms developed to serve the public good over private profit — without the need for extensive data collection to serve ad-targeting systems or the pressures to serve up extreme and misleading content to keep people engaged on exploitative platforms.</p><p>Handing the digital sphere to US companies that don’t have our interests at heart was always a mistake. The time when they claimed to “do no evil,” as Google’s motto once led us to believe, is long gone."</p><p><a href="https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-canada-needs-to-build-a-public" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disconnect.blog/p/why-canada-n</span><span class="invisible">eeds-to-build-a-public</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicCloud</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a></p>
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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2252910/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2252910/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Finland Data Center Market Investment Analysis Report <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenterConstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenterConstruction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenterInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenterInfrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ResearchAndMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchAndMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RetailColocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetailColocation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Suomi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Suomi</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/uutiset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uutiset</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WholesaleDataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WholesaleDataCenter</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2252727/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2252727/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> AI Demand Has Wall Street Snatching Up Utility Companies <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PYMNTSNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PYMNTSNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utilities</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WallStreet</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/What" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>What</span></a>'sHot</p>
Paris Marx<p>Canada can see the costs of dependence on the US first hand. Trump is bullying us and Silicon Valley used his leverage to kill the digital services tax.</p><p>As the Canadian government looks for a new cloud provider, it shouldn’t just prioritize local companies; it should invest in a public cloud.</p><p><a href="https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-canada-needs-to-build-a-public" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disconnect.blog/p/why-canada-n</span><span class="invisible">eeds-to-build-a-public</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cdntech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdntech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/digitalsovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalsovereignty</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield | TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/google-inks-3b-deal-to-buy-hydropower-from-brookfield/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-inks-3b-deal-to-buy-hydropower-from-brookfield/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a></p>
steev hise<p>The great water (and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a>) con indeed. <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/threesonorans/p/project-blue-data-released?r=3jx3v" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/threeson</span><span class="invisible">orans/p/project-blue-data-released?r=3jx3v</span></a><br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In the age of artificial intelligence, water has become as critical to data centers — which power the development of the cutting-edge technology — as electricity. The facilities pump enormous amounts of cold water into pipes that run throughout the buildings to cool the computers inside so that they can perform calculations and keep internet services like social networking humming.</p><p>A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers built to train more powerful A.I. are set to be even thirstier, requiring millions of gallons of water a day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times.<br>ImageLarge buildings lit up with lights outside.</p><p>Data center companies often demand as much water as they can get, using the tax revenue they pay as leverage, said Newsha Ajami, a hydrologist and director of urban water policy at Stanford. Some projects are so large that they require the land to first be “dewatered,” which is when groundwater is pumped out of the surrounding area in preparation for construction.</p><p>Yet water is a particularly difficult resource to manage. If a municipality needs to add energy capacity to its grid, it can build new solar farms, wind turbines or reopen coal and nuclear power plants. But the water used by Newton County comes from a nearby reservoir that can be replenished with only rainwater.</p><p>Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. That has exacerbated water shortages across the world, Ms. Ajami said.<br>“Water is an afterthought” for tech companies, she said. “The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/meta-data-center-water.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WaterScarcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterScarcity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Benoit Petit<p>"New servers are less energy-intensive." Really? 🤔</p><p>This is said so often that it could almost be taken as an absolute truth.</p><p>By extension, it is often said that each new generation of hardware consumes less energy than the previous one.</p><p>Manufacturers communicate pretty often about this, including HPE (1), Nvidia (2), etc..</p><p>A 🧵</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>efficiency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a></p>
nemo™ 🇺🇦<p>Datacenters 🔥 are facing rising climate risks as global temperatures climb, pushing cooling needs, water use, and costs ever higher. By 2080, 80% of top datacenter hubs could be at very high risk, threatening the backbone of digital business. 🌍💻 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TechRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechRisk</span></a> Read more: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/07/11/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate_change_datacenters/</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/newz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newz</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/VAPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VAPol</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/CivilWarBattlefields" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarBattlefields</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/OlVirginny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OlVirginny</span></a></p><p>From BBC.com: 'We're not just gonna roll over': The US Civil War battlefield at the centre of a new conflict</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250711-the-last-battle-of-the-us-civil-war-is-against-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025071</span><span class="invisible">1-the-last-battle-of-the-us-civil-war-is-against-ai</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>I'm sure this is in someones political thinking.</p><p>If all the electric build outs go to power data centers than the 'electric vehicle' will be claimed as too much strain on the grid to be viable and why kw/h costs would skyrocket.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a></p>
SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:<p>🇨🇦 🔌 Canada’s power grid is not ready for extreme weather: experts</p><p>The types of severe weather challenges are unique across Canada’s vast landscape, but from heat waves to cold snaps and wildfires to storms, extreme conditions are reported nationwide and the consequences of those events can be catastrophic.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canadas-power-grid-is-not-ready-for-extreme-weather-experts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ctvnews.ca/canada/article/cana</span><span class="invisible">das-power-grid-is-not-ready-for-extreme-weather-experts</span></a></p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> </p><p>'Ms Morris now hauls water in buckets to flush her toilet.</p><p>She says she had to fix the plumbing in her kitchen to restore water pressure. But the water that comes of the tap still has residue in it.'</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv</span><span class="invisible">448o</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2243372/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2243372/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Nvidia Just Became the World’s First $4 Trillion Stock. This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Giant — Which Is up 686,000% Since Its IPO — Might Be Next. <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Microsoft365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft365</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nvidia</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> </p><p>From the BBC.com: 'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv</span><span class="invisible">448o</span></a></p>
🔸Daniele Turra🔸<p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-data-sovereignty/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-</span><span class="invisible">data-sovereignty/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/datasovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datasovereignty</span></a> </p><p>Let's hope these shifts in local markets impact the entire continent!</p>
La Griffe<p>Comment l’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> encourage la prédation minière au <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a> </p><p>Derrière les <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telephones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephones</span></a> les <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> l’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IA</span></a> ou les <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/armes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>armes</span></a> il y a des <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mines</span></a> Derrières ces mines, il y a parfois des groupes armés, comme le M23 qui terrorise la région du Kivu en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RDC</span></a> avec le soutien du <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rwanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rwanda</span></a> et la complicité de l’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UE</span></a> <a href="https://www.terrestres.org/2025/07/05/la-banalite-de-lempire-laccord-ue-rwanda/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">terrestres.org/2025/07/05/la-b</span><span class="invisible">analite-de-lempire-laccord-ue-rwanda/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extractivisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivisme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guerre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guerre</span></a></p>
AnthonyIt's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:<br><blockquote>Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.<br></blockquote>"Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there's probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA's latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it's misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energy</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCenters</a><br>
Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱<p>Albanese’s report said the ICJ’s ruling “effectively qualifies the occupation as an act of aggression … Consequently, any dealings that support or sustain the occupation and its associated apparatus may amount to complicity in an international crime under the Rome Statute.”</p><p>Al Jazeera: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un</span><span class="invisible">-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/collusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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Paris Marx<p>Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.</p><p>For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.</p><p><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canada-should-build-public-cloud-infrastructure-rather-than-relying-on-u-s-tech-giants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">policyalternatives.ca/news-res</span><span class="invisible">earch/canada-should-build-public-cloud-infrastructure-rather-than-relying-on-u-s-tech-giants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cdntech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdntech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/markcarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markcarney</span></a></p>
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