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Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/landslides-flooding-costa-rica-san-jose

Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785

This is the kind of shit the “Democratic Leadership" keeps pulling. Shapiro, Newsom, Fedderman, Clintons, Summers, Obama. They are all neo-liberals who also work for the billionaires too. We need to elect folks like Krasner, AOC, Sanders, etc who actually work for citizens.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/larry-krasner-josh-shapiro-philadelphia-ice-agents-rhetoric-20260202.html

European Union (probably not alone) is at risk of insufficient primary materials to facilitate the renewable energy capture systems on which its modest climate mitigation plans rely.
Report by their Audit Court.
https://www.eldiario.es/economia/ue-rie…

La UE está en riesgo de quedarse sin materias primas para potenciar las energías renovables
Un informe del Tribunal de Cuentas revela que las políticas puestas en marcha por la Comisión Europea sobre minerales críticos y tierras raras para las energías renovables y la agenda verde han sido insuficientes: "El objetivo de garantizar el suministro de aquí a 2030 se antoja inalcanzable"

Donald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday,
but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.
In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be
the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
Trump described himself as
a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he,
along with the U.S. Navy,
would wor…

Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe'
The president, who claimed to be a "very aesthetic person," said he would join the U.S. Navy in designing the vessels named after him.

"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

Ah yeah! @…’s horror advent calendar has arrived 🙌
Here’s a little taste from last year..

Chris Packham:
“Why are we unbelievably pulling back on rapidly and forthrightly addressing the greatest crisis to ever threaten our species, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss?
“Climate denialism has been a mainstream thing again, thanks to the well-oiled machines of the rich, powerful and influential lobbyists from the fossil fuel and other industries.
"We have declared war on our one and only home, we’ve set or house on fire."

US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume 🔥more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the
South American nation’s oil reserves
– the largest in the world,
at least on paper
– would put increasing pressure on climate goals,
and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe.
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