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"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions

New tool reveals the hidden environmental cost of every website
9,000 monthly searches on YouTube.com uses 10 litres of water – enough for a capuchin monkey to survive for 77 days.

"TikTok says users can’t upload anti-ICE videos due to technical issues."
The technical issue is that TikTok wants to block LICE videos but an implementation bug also blocks ICE videos. Or something like that. 🙄
#ICE #TikTok #censorship #technology #USA #sarcasm

Unintentional dark pattern (grey pattern?)
1. Use Firefox adblocker, website broken
2. Sigh in disgust, disable adblocker
3. Website still broken, turns out incompetence was problem, not malice
4. Somehow get things to work
5. Never turn ad blocker back on for site
6. Profit (for site's ad revenue)
#technology

"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

FTW. You search for "coffee filter" and all 1000 results are for ground coffee to use in, and you won't ever guess this, *coffee filters*. 🤦‍♂️
#stupid #technology #ecommerce

"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.  El Paso Electric had previously stated that existing infrastructure would support the data center and that Meta was looking to tap into a new solar farm. El Paso gets more than 300 days a […]

What's worse: "AI", or the people hyper-selling AI and want no consequences?
(OK, that's an easy answer)
#OpenAI #AI #LLM #technology #ethics #society #accountability

"Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows"
#Amazon #Technology

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

20"-wide keyboard tray when a typical full-size keyboard is a bit over 17" wide and a mouse pad is about 8.5" wide. ⌨️🖱️🤦‍♂️
#design #utility #ergonomics #accessories #technology #business

"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy

"UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #Technology

I don't know if this is true for all #EpsteinFiles the #DOJ just released but at least for the PDF linked in the quoted Bluesky post:
1. Open PDF in MS Word
2. Select All (CTRL A)
3. Set text color to Automatic
4. Read on
#redacted #technology #incompetence #unprofessional

Yet another dev bitten by YAML parser stripping out underscores from strings that otherwise contain only digits. ✋
#technology #webdev #softwareEngineering #frustration

1: Webdev who just wants a decent nav bar
2: Copilot
Not bad at all. 👏
#AI #LLM #webdev #Copilot #burn #Pixel #technology #phones #funny

"UK households bin 168m Christmas lights and ‘fast tech’ items a year"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #EWaste

The morrow was indeed better☝️. As I suspected, there was some "Liquid in Jekyll (v3.10.0) on GH Pages" bug/feature:
Say you include `i.html` w parameter p, and this innocent line in it. Turns out this can change the type of var x in the caller. 😳
`{% assign x = include.p %} {% # x is string %}`
#webdev #technology #Jekyll #GitHub

OK, I give up*. This "Liquid in Jekyll on GH Pages" is just too fragile. 😒
*for today. I hope things are (magically) better tomorrow.
#frustration #webdev #technology #Liquid #Jekyll

In this edition of "Conversations with LLMs".
#LLM #technology #addiction #upselling #desperation

*AI* crawlers ignoring *robots*.txt file. The irony. 🤦‍♂️
#AI #technology #conventions #web

"Well, Euro and USB-C worked, so TDMRep will also work."
- EU bureaucrats, probably. 😎 🧑‍💼
#EU #EuropeanUnion #bureaucracy #technology #naive

I like how "TDM Reservation Protocol (TDMRep)" has two docs marked "Final Community Group Report" with a stamp of "finality" in both docs. Distinct URIs and date stamps too. 🙄
#w3c #technology #consistency #fail #sarcasm

"Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Technology

"Clicks" keyboard for phones. Also a "work phone" with nice specs.📱
Now, how do I convince my wife that I need the keyboard and the phone? 🤔🤓
#technology #gadgets #phone #keyboard #Blackberry #Clicks

Found this unnecessary (but I'm sure unintentional) gendering in W3C's TDMRep docs repo:
Submitted an issue: 🤞
#W3C #documentation #GitHub #gendering #technology #equality #fairness

Never thought I'd see the day when an #LLM in the current crop chooses #honesty over #fabrication. I guess, in this case at least, I beat #Copilot into submission (with an earlier criticism). But pretty sure it'll soon be back to confidently fabricating answers.
#hallucination #ethics #technology

#Wanted: Vegan, vegetarian alternative to "Hamburger Menu"
#webdev #technology #labels #vegan #vegetarian #nomenclature