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Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Tusk: Poland may temporarily close the border with Ukraine, suspending bilateral trade: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/tusk-poland-may.html

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are a planning a new "Stargate" US-based supercomputer that could cost $100B to power OpenAI products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-plot…

Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer
Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer with millions of specialized server chips to power OpenAI’s artificial intelligence, according to three people who have been involved in the private conversations about the ...

A significant wildfire in Texas has resulted in one fatality, prompted evacuations, disrupted electrical services, and temporarily halted activities at a nuclear facility. The fire has consumed 1.1 million acres near Amarillo, ranking as the second-largest in U.S. history.
Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in 60 counties. The fire, fueled by dry vegetation, high temperatures, and strong winds, is only 3% contained.
In Hutchinson County, an 83-year-old woman, J…

Texas under fire: The wildfire is already the second largest in US history - International Monitor
A significant wildfire in Texas has resulted in one fatality, prompted evacuations, disrupted electrical services, and temporarily halted activities at a nuclear facility.

"'There’s these huge communities of people fleeing violence, persecution, gangs, all these things, trying to survive and we’re basically telling them, "Sleep on the streets,"' said Supervisor Hillary Ronen."
https://www.sfpublicpr…

SF to Briefly House Some Homeless Migrant Families, as the Rest Languish
San Francisco is facing an influx of homeless migrant families. City Hall will offer temporary housing to some, while the rest face an uncertain future.

Es geht das Gerücht, dass am 26.2. in den USA über 50 #Temperaturrekorde geknackt wurden.
#globaleErwärmung #Erderwärmung

Doc: EU regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying software that competes with its Entra ID identity management service (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/eu

EU Antitrust Cops Investigate Microsoft’s Security Software Practices
European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying security software that competes with Microsoft’s, according to a document the EU sent to at least one rival in January. It’s the latest sign of growing scrutiny from policymakers, especially in the ...

Border Guard: Polish protesters temporarily suspend blockade at Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv crossing: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/border-guard-polish.html

Source: Alphabet execs told staffers at its moonshot X lab that the company will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google…

Google’s Parent Company Squeezes Its Moonshot Projects, ‘Other Bets’
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to ambitious moonshot projects. Company executives have told staffers at the X unit, which converts promising investment projects into full-fledged subsidiaries, known as Other Bets, that no such conversions will happen this ...

Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bolts-…

Bolt’s Fanatics Partnership Goes South, Adding to Growth Woes
Bolt, the checkout startup that rocketed to an $11 billion valuation during the pandemic e-commerce boom, is embroiled in another legal battle with a high-profile retail partner: sports apparel company Fanatics, which signed a deal in 2022 to offer Bolt’s speedy payment buttons across several of ...