@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“If all projects that have signed connection agreements were implemented in full over the coming years, they would increase Finland’s electricity consumption by nearly 40 per cent compared with the 2025 level.”
https://www.fingrid.fi/en…
@zachleat@zachleat.com
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHas there ever been a scifi movie or series set in a universe where project PACER became the dominant means of power production? Regardless of whether it was central to the plot or just mentioned in passing
@cdarwin@c.imSenate Majority Leader John Thune’s political action committee dropped a massive
$53.9 million investment into the Texas Senate race, according to a Federal Election Commission filingsubmitted Monday.
The investment from Texas PAC, a committee associated with Thune’s Senate Leadership Fund, divided the media spending push:
Nearly $27 million will be used to support Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general,
while $27 million is set to oppose Democratic …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Cable Center sells its 75K-square-foot Denver headquarters for $19.5M, as cord-cutting and media consolidation cause financial strain for the nonprofit (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/1…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgRunning into an #ios27 (27.0.1) bug in the Camera app. Have the default set to main cam at 1.5x (35mm), but it launches into 1x (24mm) every time regardless. Persists after power cycle. Any thoughts?
#iPhone18Pro
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyToday, the Trump-Netanyahu mess in the Middle East has driven up EU natural gas price even higher: 77 €/MWh now.
When gas-fired power plants set the electricity price in Europe, that's €130 per electric MWh in fuel cost alone.
Insulate buildings, electrify processes, grow renewable electricity.
#fossilfuels
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI did not intend to spend several hours today making 3 releases full of new features to WaveLogGoat, but I did. One of them is a workaround for a regression in wavelog, but the rest are pure features!
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Local Bytes Power Monitoring Smart Plug: Review - Learn how I set up and used this device preflashed with Tasmota! #powerMeter #cutCarbon #frugal -
@cdarwin@c.imTech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats on the House Judiciary Committee are set to launch an investigation into the decision to criminally charge David Hearn and others over the Reflecting Pool fiasco.
Although Democrats are in the minority, their probe offers a blueprint for what they’ll pursue with subpoena power if they control the House in six months.
This week, Representative Jamie Raskin—the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and potentially its future chair—will formally demand that the Justic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDell, Jera, and UK-based Rhaelm partner to build a $15B, 400MW off-grid AI data center and gas power plant near Tokyo, set to begin operations around 2028 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ec55a734-243b-43a2-93ea-8652d6b99309
@StephenRees@mas.toThe climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly
Bill McKibben
Though 2026 seems likely to set a new global temperature record (and 2027, as El Niño gathers steam, is almost certain to break it), and though the planet has careened from one climate disaster to another (European heatwaves that killed tens of thousands, a Nepali flood that wiped out entire communities), and though scientists warn that we’re reaching precisely the global tipping points they’ve…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: 151 staff, or ~4%, of the BBC Media Tech unit, which powers iPlayer and BBC Sounds, are set to take voluntary redundancies due to ongoing cost-cutting (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/bbc-cuts-150-tech-staff-voluntary-redundan…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans double down on hypocrisy and
gaslighting Jews as the midterms loom
RNC Chairman Joe Gruters is set to shamelessly tell the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership summit in Las Vegas on Monday,
"A Democratic majority in November is not just a political setback for our party and our movement — it is a direct threat to the Jewish community,”
according to excerpts of his speech obtained by The Post.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's firings of federal officials set stage for next test of presidential power (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-firings-federal-workers-presidential-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p50#a260807p50
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarcely imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28,
when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the country’s government.
Five months later, those goals remain almost entirely unaccomplished.
And Trump,
once confident that overwhelming force would enable him to pursue in Iran what he proudly called the “Venezuela model”
— a change of governme…
@cdarwin@c.imThe #HawkFire stands at a little over 15,000 acres burned,
prompting expanded evacuation orders across northwest #Reno and the North Valleys.
Approximately close to 90,000 residents live within the mandatory evacuation and evacuation warning zones.
The fire was listed at 0% containment as of 5:30 a.m. M…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWrt to Codeberg kicking out slop:
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer.
The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, [...] He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them.
[...]
When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things.
The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"You've had your time
You've had your power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio"
A French pilot project has started that uses FM radio to control flexible energy devices. It's reminiscent of the early days of demand control, when off-peak periods were set by a radio signal.
https://www.usinenouvelle.com/technos-et-innovations/l-instant-tech/plus-robuste-plus-repandue-plus-sobre-fleximax-mise-sur-la-bande-fm-pour-inciter-les-menages-a-adopter-la-flexibilite-electrique.OXMAOB57HBEBNP7B2BINFKJI54.html
