@mrchrisadams
Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. A member of climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation. He/Him. @mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
HELL YEAH
using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him
When huge facilities like this are created and when datacentre operators choose to use gas fired generation like this, it’s a good example of why there is so much pushback against datacentre buildout.
Just like fossil infra - the benefits accrue to a tiny minority & the harms get dumped on others.
Is this one datacentre responsible for all of it? No!
This blog post shows another example datacentre run by Microsoft, with 160MW plus of gas powered generators, expected to run regularly when the grid is under stress
www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/3-takea...
The thread from @robosullivan.bsky.social references a 30 billion EUR fine for missing climate targets via the European “effort sharing” laws, which would almost certainly be socialised across all of Ireland. rather than pinned on datacentre operators like this.
A rule of thumb for how much datacentres think they will make for big facilities like this is “10-12 million USD per megawatt”.
So for this facility, 110 times 10 million, rounded down might be something like a billion EUR a year in expected revenue.
This gas powered datacentre has a 110MW at full capacity. You can use a simple rule of thumb to understand how the costs would be shifted to society.
(Warning, incoming Bluesky thread math, don’t expect nuance. I’ll add more details if there is interest)
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
An amazing stat:
Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.
It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
at this point, the only rational conclusion is they don’t want to win.
Simple table comparing scale of different oil crises Supply disrupted is one column Available spare capacity is the next column Availability spare capacity & location is the final column The 2026 Gulf War crises has by far the highest disruption (20%) and lowest spare capacity (0%, although I think this is a slight exaggeration)
Again this table via @70sbachchan.bsky.social
I am not so sure that current spare capacity is really *zero*; and it doesn't list SPRs, but still shows the extreme potential of this situation
Great quotes in military history.
@atrupar.com
they said the green politics decade was over, but funnily enough what the far rights are effectively engineering is a huge build-up against fossil fuels.
that is, of course, if the fossil fuels don’t kill democracy in the mean time. which i would not bet on.
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Everything in the Digital Networks Act that might change the DNA of the sector and your firm – Rudolf van der Berg, Stratix - digital sustainability, net neutrality and interconnection in European policy.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Normalise the second question when you meet an American outside of America being “who did you vote for?”
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?
Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
A witless parody of authoritarianism.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Angela Macdonald-Smith Angela Macdonald-Smith Senior resources writer Mar 6, 2026 – 1.38pm Save Share Gift this article Listen to this article 7 min Australia’s biggest gas producers are cashing in on the conflict in the Middle East and the suspension of Qatari LNG production, which has disrupted global supply, with deals struck at more than double recent market rates. Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader on Wednesday for the sale of an LNG cargo at about $US25 ($35) per million British thermal units (MMBtu), according to market sources, who were not authorised to speak publicly.
Not a single soul on the planet happier about bloodshed, conflict, uncertainty, rising energy bills, fuel shortages and cost of living collapse than the CEO of a fossil fuel company
The worse the death and destruction, the happier they (and the shareholders) get
www.afr.com/companies/en...
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
in the U.S., the fake meat industry has been struggling for years. but over in china, the sector is gaining traction as the govt incorporates "future foods" such as alt proteins into its 5-year plan. could this be the latest U.S.-born innovation that china takes mainstream? i ~explore~
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Cricket’s revenge.
