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"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
https://newrepublic.co…

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Ich hoffe ja, dass sich z.B. #Google an "Don't be evil!" erinnert. Das wäre ein Anfang.

#Google en #Microsoft houden energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters geheim voor de overheid.
Hoog tijd om water, energiegebruik en piekvermogen op te nemen in de E-PRTR richtlijn. Dat is net zo bedrijfsgevoelig als omzet, winst en eigen vermogen. Gewoon publiceren dus. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid-a4915848?gift_token=4915848~1767956111~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~THiRtzTxzPB96nOLMWppa8Cr74u0NDFtyT-lMSZyukQ

#Airbus will seit 2018 weg von der Abhängigkeit von Microsoft Office.
Schafft es aber aus Kompatibilitätsgründen nicht.
Dachte erst: Aha, #LibreOffice oder so.
Weit gefehlt: Man möchte zu #Google

Airbus will seit Jahren weg von Microsoft Office – schafft es aber einfach nicht
Kompatibilitätsprobleme sorgen dafür, dass ein großer Teil der Mitarbeiter zwei Office-Lösungen parallel nutzen muss. Dabei wurde der Umstieg schon 2018 beschlossen

On May 1, 2026, #Google CDN Interconnect, Direct Peering, and Carrier Peering prices go up by as much as 2x in one region (i.e., NA $0.04 -> $0.08 / GiB).
https://cloud.google.com/consulting/cl

Update Pricing information for Cloud CDN Interconnect
Google Cloud pricing update: CDN Interconnect and Peering (May 2026).

📣 Leute, traut nicht irgendwelchen #KI-Zusammenfassungen.
🤖 Laut der künstlichen „Intelligenz“ von #Google bin ich ein Arzt in Montabaur. Man kann sich sogar mein „Praxisgebäude“ in Google Street View ansehen.
Vermutliche Gründe dafür:
• Ich habe einen Doktortitel in Politikwi…

So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding

Last month I switched from Google Workspace to proton.me for hosting email for my domains.
It went smoothly, but if you're considering it, here's some things I wish I'd known when I was starting to move my old email.
#protonmail #google_apps #google_workspace

Once upon a time when work was using its own email servers, I had to periodically archive my email accounts. I would create a new gmail account and just throw it up on there so the emails were still searchable in my mail client if the account was included…
Now I have a bunch of gmail accounts that have tens of thousands of emails form twenty years ago.
This is dumb... especially with storage the way it is these days.
So now I'm logging into those accounts, downloading the emails and any other Google data, and deleting the accounts from Google.
Fun Times, this long-time-digital-life life.
#Google #Data #KeepItOnYourDevice

#risque #santé avec #Google #IA : #AI Overviews put pe…

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.
Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend

fuck all social media websites!
a putz on you all! !
#meta #google #Facebook #instagram <…

Really need to find a new search engine with @Google going all in on clanker slop for math. The difference of an additional zero:
#google #LLM #clankers

@… wants to have the #sherman act (anti-trust) invoked against the #google #monopoly

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

Just returned my brand new #Google #WiFi Pro.
So many issues with dropped connections on Android and MacOS. Turns out they are known issues. Going back to my ancient Google WiFi mesh which actually works.

Florian Harms fordert das Offensichtliche: Gewinne, die von #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft und Co in Deutschland erwirtschaftet werden, müssen hier besteuert werden – nicht in irischen Daten-Oasen. Punkt. Nur…

Stoppschild für Meta und Google? Deutschland droht die digitale Versklavung
Digitalkonzerne zersetzen Demokratien. Es braucht ein Stoppschild.

Ja, scho recht...
#ki #aioverview #google

#Android #OpenSource Project "is already on life support, and with this latest move #Google is firmly gripping the plug." 😯🫣😞
Google takes next big leap in killing

Wczoraj przy stole świątecznym próbowałem rodzinie wytłumaczyć o co chodzi z tym, że używam z degooglowanego systemu na telefonie od #Google i wydaje mi się, że poległem 😅
#GrapheneOS

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

GitHub - PMassicotte/gtrendsR: R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries
R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries - PMassicotte/gtrendsR

Everytime someone asks me to "please leave a #Google review" at this guesthouse/restaurant/etc, when I say "Sorry, I don't have a Google account" they seem so flabbergasted that they don't know how to respond.

LLM-guided development is making #autobahn truly great. Now it decided to arbitrarily start "vendoring" flatbuffers. Except that by "vendoring", they actually mean installing their own top-level `flatbuffers` package as part of `autobahn` (and therefore overwriting the original `flatbuffers`). I wonder how #Google feels about that…
#NoLLM

Whether you like or dislike Chrome, the fact that ChromeOS is "just a web browser" is a positive. I don't want to see them mess that up. Putting Android on these things seems like a bad idea.
#AluminiumOS #Google

#MustRead: Der #Google #AIMode "analysiert nicht nur, was gesucht wird, sondern auch, warum."
❗ "Suchanfragen werden zu Persönlichkeitsprofilen"
❗ intransparente Daten-Zusammenf…

Wrong.
#google #ai #slop

Fugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks

#Google's review system has become a pure joke!
Whenever you say anything negative, whether on Google Maps or the Play Store, your review gets blocked or hidden... what a joke 🤦 🙄
W - T - F
#wtf

#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware
By the way,

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism

»Punkt MC03 — Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne #Google:
Die Schweizer Firma #PunktDesign hat mit dem #PunktMC03 ein neu­es, besonders stark auf die

Punkt MC03: Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne Google
Die Schweizer Firma PunktDesign hat mit dem Punkt. MC03 ein neues, besonders stark auf die Privatsphäre des Nutzers ausgelegtes Smartphone auf Basis einer abgesicherten Android-Variante vorgestellt. Das Gerät wurde in der Schweiz entwickelt und ist "Made in Germany".

Wieder ein Schritt näher am #Universaltranslator. 😁
#Google öffnet seine Live-#Übersetzungsfunktion für alle

Google Translate: Echtzeit-Übersetzung jetzt für alle Kopfhörer - Golem.de
Google öffnet seine Live-Übersetzungsfunktion für sämtliche Bluetooth-Kopfhörer. Bisher war das Feature auf die Pixel Buds beschränkt.

Uh, that's new?! Apps installed from #AuroraStore can't be updated in #GooglePlayStore anymore?
I just updated to Aurora 4.7.5.
#Android15

Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:

• I am not interested in L…

"Das Ergebnis ist ein Internet, das sich zunehmend anfühlt wie ein riesiger Basar voller Marktschreier, die alle um deine Aufmerksamkeit buhlen. Die kleinen, authentischen Stimmen gehen unter. Originalität wird bestraft, weil sie schwerer zu skalieren ist." | Wer hat das Internet kaputt gemacht? Die Wahrheit über Google, SEO und den Niedergang der Suche - Jörg Schieb | #Google

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.

And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.

Weg von #Google: #MailboxOrg von @… scheint eine gute Alternative zu sein!
Die Kontakte und Kalendereinträge waren problemlos von Go…

Przede mną pewnie jeszcze sporo szukania odpowiedników FOSS do tego czego używam na co dzień, ale póki co po pięciu dniach chyba doszedłem do kropki (a przynajmniej przecinka) z konfiguracją #GrapheneOS pod siebie. To co najbardziej mnie boli to fakt, że musiałem do profilu z usługami #Google pr…

A #google sabe tanta coisa a meu respeito, ela deveria saber que eu sei inglês o suficiente para preferir que minhas buscas e as pšginas que eu abro não sejam automaticamente traduzidas desta língua para o português. ¬¬

Hmmmm, ja klar.
Ist das jetzt Überschätzung oder gehen die #Massenentlassungen noch 5 Jahre weiter?
#Google plant, seine #KI-Infrastruktur alle sechs Monate zu verdoppeln, um der steigen…

Is anybody using #Google Calendar with an included external ics-URL?
I've got a #freebusy-list on my web page and someone using it doesn't get any entry in #GoogleCalendar.
After adding …

Damn, y’all, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar People Farmer that’s helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine…
Maybe we should talk to their Chief Ethics Officer or something?
#google #gmail #genocide

Gmail AI gets even more intrusive
Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal i…

Finally managed to hook my #GoogleNest in #HomeAssistant.
If you are in the same situation, remember to remove *all* Google credentials first. Home Assistant doesn't allow org accounts, only regular ones. I had Google Drive with my main account, which is in my own org.

Any open-source options for an event registration form? Do I really have to go to #Google? Don't suggest self-hosted, please ...

#Google #Android Recorder telling me not to spy on people. Funny.

StreetComplete
#OSM #Fdroid #GooglePlay

Jestem w ciężkim szoku jak wierną kopią #iPhone15Pro jest ten mój nowy #Google #Pixel9a. W ślepym teście można by się było pomylić jakby nie wyspa aparatów 😅

Apple gibt Siri bald ein Google-Hirn: Statt auf Privacy-Purismus setzt Cupertino in Sachen KI auf Milliarden-Deal mit Gemini. Von Revolution keine Spur – Apple kämpft gegen Rückstand, testet Konkurrenz, will aber mittelfristig wieder unabhängig sein. Revolutioniert wird erstmal nur die Bilanz. #Apple #Google

VMA till alla ägare av androidtelefoner - håller ni med? #googlepixel #mobiltelefon #android

🎯 Zero accuracy loss - preserves what matters: errors, anomalies, high-scoring items & query-relevant content using BM25/embedding similarity
✅ Full provider support: #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google

Today, I realised that #Google has introduced #ads on #YouTube videos in browsers.
1) Code is so invasive to privacy that Firefox refuses to display the site
2) On another browser, I need to watch 2 ads ev…

AI translation can't get any wronger: The Kannada word "ಪ್ರಾಣಾಂತರ್ಗತ" (ISO prāṇāṁtargata) or the variation ಪ್ರಾಣಾನ್ತರ್ಗತ (prāṇāntargata) actually means "resident in [part of] breath [life]".
1: #fail #AI #translation #Kannada #English #languages #Google

Interessant, Gemini 3 is alleen getraind op Google hardware (TPUs), niet op Nvidia-GPUs 🤔
#ai #google #nvidia #tpu

"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

Google pimpt Maps für E-Auto-Fahrer:innen: Freie Ladesäulen werden angezeigt und KI soll jetzt voraussagen, wie voll die Ladesäulen bei Ankunft sind. Klingt praktisch – aber macht uns erneut abhängig von Googles Daten-Ökosystem. Komfort gegen Kontrollverlust, die x-te Runde.
#googlemaps #Digitalisierung

#Bateria w #Google #Pixel9a jest świetna! A może to wpływ #GrapheneOS bez zbędnego syfu? Myślę, że…

#Apple and #Google must enforce their stores' terms of service
💥and remove X Corp's #X and #Grok apps from their app stores
over recent in…

#Großbritannien plant laut Medienberichten, #Apple und #Google aufzufordern, #Nacktfotos sys…

Bericht: Großbritannien will Apple und Google zu Nacktfotos-Blockade zwingen
Das britische Home Office will Apple und Google auffordern, Nacktfotos systemweit zu blockieren. Entsprechende Pläne sind laut einem Bericht in Vorbereitung.

Sometimes \(2^n 1\) is not prime. but let me just check that on #Google.
#Odometer #AISlop #math

Landmark social media trial to begin over addiction claims - BBC Business
#TikTok #YouTube #Google #Snapchat #Meta #Instagram #Zuckerberg #Facebook

#Bolt działa bez usług #Google, ale #Uber już nie... #GrapheneOS

#mObywatel działa świetnie bez usług #Google, brawo! Natomiast #mojeIKP już działa tylko na profilu z #GMS

Die Konferenz der 🇨🇭 #schweizerischen #Datenschutzbeauftragten (#privatim), hält die Auslagerung von bestimmten #Personendaten an #Cloud-Dienste von #AWS #Google #Microsoft etc. für unzulässig:
➡️ oft fehlt #E2EE
➡️ zu wenig #Transparenz
➡️ erheblicher Kontrollverlust
➡️ #Rechtsunsicherheit
➡️ #CloudAct
24.11.2025:
#SaaS #M365 #TeamDatenschutz #privacy #digitalesouveranitat #eusummit25 #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #BigTech #ms365

Erstmals fließt jeder zweite deutsche Werbe-Euro an #Google, #Amazon & #Meta, titelt #Horizont

Antena #GSM w #Google #Pixel9a jest duuużo lepsza od tej w #Samsung

Hejka! Piszę do Was z nowiutkiego #Google #Pixel9a z wgranym #GrapheneOS. Od teraz wracam na ścieżkę #privacy

Check out the map for Digital Independence Day! 🚀
👉 #Dresden #Chemnitz #Berlin #Dortmund #FFM #München #Karlsruhe …
It's time to switch from #X #WhatsApp #Google #Amazon etc. to digitally independent services!
👋 Dear neighbours, join in! @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @…
#DIDit #IDIDIT #DigitalIndependenceDay #DutGemacht #SaveSocial #DIDaySupportCommunity #DigitalSovereignty #Grok