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Because I have arrived today to Taiwan 🇹🇼 via China Airlines, I can now add their iconic plum blossom tailfin livery to my airlines flown graphic.¹ ✈️
¹ #avgeek

The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.
It is how difficult that number was for the public to obtain.
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
— then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply

The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally came out, the company's data centers were drinking 29 percent of the town's water.

AI fear-mongering is profitable. Blaming AI is simply lazy. Claiming humans are alway better is sanctimonious.
Greed, Sloth, Pride... interesting.
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A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/business/data-centers-ai-economy

‘Brand-new everything’: How data centers transformed this small town’s economy
A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago.

I went to the beautiful little town of Bietigheim today, because my son had a rehearsal with the Youth Philharmonic Ludwigsburg there. Anyway, the old town is lovely. Stunning half-timbered houses, a 14th-century city gate, a music school in an old castle, and also … this. 😳

#TuneTuesday (Jul 14)
Released last year, the song “Guess She’s Cool” by British band Only The Poets is one of those underrated upbeat yet lyrically melancholic pop songs that deserves more views.
https://youtu.be/wthwIpJ_wE8

South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan has become one of the fastest-rising affluent areas, driven by windfall bonuses for Samsung and SK Hynix workers (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52cdae7d-5553-4b8b-9fd7-90c167e9c1a4…

RE: https://wikis.world/@wikisocph/116741058163360891
Not that the target audience is very large here on the Fediverse, but if you are a Wikimedian in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or Oceania, please check out the latest cycle for endorsing new ESEAP Community …

It’s been over two years since I last submitted a #Wikimedia #Phabricator ticket, so I guess I should submit a new one for a weird bug on #WikimediaCommons involving structured data via

T429008 Commons SDC seems broken after a history split
**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable):