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“Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds.
Study warns #AI #datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster.”
The words “self-immolation” come to mind.
If LLMs were to give ri…

Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster

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

Join us now at 5:30 pm at the RUSTlab (online) lecture, Pat Brodie will discuss the book “From Bog to Cloud”, aka why the heck are there so many #datacenters in #Ireland??
The event:

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

there's just no end to it. or perhaps there is but it awaits awakening the kaiju?
#datacenters #DataSovereigntyBS #burrningdownthehouse
https://www.tumblr.com/allthecanadianpolitics/817239112616755200/if-you-want-to-write-your-politicians-but-dont?source=share

US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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

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