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Als we onafhankelijk willen worden van BigTech hebben we in Europa meer datacenters nodig, niet minder.
#EU #datacenters #bigtech

Mistral raises $830mn to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe
French company’s debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups

Things could be worse.
"The state Public Service Commission approved We Energies’ special energy rate for large data centers on April 24, but not without making a series of changes to strengthen protections for existing ratepayers. The novel proposal intends to hold data centers responsible for their immense energy needs and prevent those costs from raising residential electric bills."
#Wisconsin #WEEnergies #DataCenters #AI

Oh, that one hits hard: 👐
Tech Won’t Save Us: Why #Iran is Attacking #DataCenters w/ Sam Biddle
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Tech Won’t Save Us (@techwontsave.us)
In the US-Iran war, data centers are a target. Iran has struck several Amazon facilities, including another one just this week in Bahrain. This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to dig into why data centers are a target and how the military uses AI. Full ep: https://techwontsave.us/episode/322_why_iran_is_attacking_data_centers_w_sam_biddle

Ongoing human folly of the month #137: As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable - Futurism (Did you guess #datacenters?)
https://apple.news/A1BN__QkbShO1wTTylv

As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable — Futurism
How original. No one is surprised that Neom — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s $1.5 trillion-with-a-t plan to build a futuristic megacity smack dab in the middle of the desert — has turned out to be a disaster. Its centerpiece was supposed to be a towering skyscraper called The Line, over 100 miles in length, that could accommodate millions of people, something that the laws of reality always suggested would be impossible to pull off. But, according to new reporting from the Finan…

Dat verhaal over datacenters die de omgevingstemperatuur verhogen, daar is dus van alles mis mee...
#datacenters

Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they're built
A terrible paper and even worse interpretation is threatening to become common wisdom