“Since ChatGPT’s launch, in November 2022, the capital expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google have exceeded $600 billion, and much of that spending has gone toward data centers...”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
That makes sense! Thank you!
Curious what from a cyclist’s standpoint makes the median an upgrade over the planters. Is it that the median is more permanent?
holy shit
Might try making some tear-n'-share recipes for myself this weekend and eat them alone in front of my window for all to witness
I was just pondering booking my first-ever Southwest flight…so no.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
If anyone has ever clicked this button, I would like to meet them. The freakiest of freaks.
A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.
'Based on estimates I’ve seen, a single data center campus would have an annual carbon footprint equivalent to the emissions of about 80,000 passenger vehicles in a year.'
so... that means capturing waste heat from data centers is not circularity.
www.planetizen.com/blogs/137025...
Thank you! These kinds of personal efforts are good for the soul, but also just a real benefit to the community.
The long 2010s are finally over
"A Hillsboro data center operated by social media company TikTok, for example, is saving $5.6 million this year through the enterprise zone program even though it has just 11 local employees. That works out to more than $500,000 in tax breaks for each worker." www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
feel like i'm gonna be getting a lot of mileage out of this one
The people compiling these design review documents could be approving building permits instead.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will not send any Cabinet minister to an annual ceremony for the South Korean-controlled Takeshima islets, as she looks to keep improving ties with Seoul on an even keel.
Oregon SB 1586 will forcibly rezone inhabited, productive rural farmlands for industrial use, including data centers. Where will the residents go? What is an “accessory” data center?
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True alphas pave wetlands for low density McMansions that don’t have fire escapes.
I watched this and didn’t notice sobbing. It sounded to me like a smart staffer who may have been a bit nervous doing their best to answer some technical questions on the spot. Ultimately, the staffer seemed to do fine? It’s tough answering councilor questions while the camera is rolling.
for people who use the word sportsball, today is their super bowl
Here's you guide to the best Lunar New Year 2026 celebrations in Portland this February.
VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.
Objectively, the posts were racist.
These guys are rotten.
They know it was bad, which is why they’re spending time trying to excuse it.
While it's still early, I think "valorously setting a dumpster fire" has a strong chance of joining "that’s the wrong question and it valorizes white institutions and white ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways" in the Poasting canon.
In no functioning country is this allowed.
Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.
Never set fires.
