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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-18 21:10:57

Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ex

Exclusive: Oracle Data Centers Face Multibillion-Dollar Cost Surprises
Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example.The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas ...

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-10 16:00:41

Trump plan would fence park near White House long used by tourists, and protesters
Trump is planning a new permanent fence that would allow officials to close the public park across the street from the executive mansion,
according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity

The fence would be installed on the north and south sides of Lafayette Square, the people said,
allowing officials to shut the park.
The park, through which visitors commonly ac…

Trump plan would fence park near White House long used by tourists, protesters
The project, discussed by past administrations, would allow officials to more easily shut Lafayette Square for security reasons, sparking concerns over public access.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-08 08:22:53

#PermaComputing #Software

Abram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 (@AbramKedge@beige.party)
@urlyman@mastodon.social somewhere in the back of my mind is a metric that says that the majority of the lifetime cost of a piece of software is not in its initial development, but in its maintenance and inevitable expansion to accommodate new features. The corollary to that, is that investing time up front, planning and implementing a platform built for extension while changing the bare minimum lines of code across the project pays for itself many times over. Somewhere along the way that id…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-04 23:30:54

Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-19 21:09:38

Early this month, a single pen stroke effectively ended representative
Steve Cohen’s career in Congress.
The man who has represented Memphis for 19 years will turn 77 later this month,
but he wasn’t planning on retiring.
He hadn’t lost any primary.
The reason was that his district had been erased around him.
A new electoral map, passed by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Bill Lee, the governor,
divides the ninth district three wa…

The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-05-21 17:00:15

"UK Government greenlights 3GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #WindTurbines

UK Government greenlights 3GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project
Planning permission has been approved for two Dogger Bank offshore wind farms totalling 3GW in capacity, as well as a 1GW wind farm off the east coast of England.