Further to the above two toots on #AI #DataCentre, the propaganda appears to be being generated at pace. Now telling us we are “AI illiterate”, and discounting any possible valid concerns about water and power security 🤯
Permission to scream, please!
All for this? Not worth it imo
“He said to illustrate what the AI factory was capable of, once complete it would have the capacity to process around 960 million ChatGPT conversations per day, which was between 5 to 10 percent of the conversations processed by the AI chatbot globally each day.”
Ban data centres, ai and crypto.
Electricity becomes free, water becomes clean, people stop being stolen from, hand cuffed and spied on.
Look at the problem from the free human child out. Not from the tech bros Epstein Class down.
BC tells crypto No power for you! NO!
"BC Hydro permanently bans cryptocurrency mining to protect power supply"
Supreme Court backed it up.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-hydro-cryptocurrency-mining-bitcoin-power-permanent-ban
#AI #DataCentre #PowerPrices #NZ #NZTwits
Is it uncharitable to think the fanboys has been taking in the cool aid, or perhaps asking what backhanders they got? 🤪
How can those mayors be so divorced from reality?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/589535/massive-ai-factory-could-impact-sea-life-cultural-values
Johor Assemblyman: Data Centre Dispute Should Be A “Lesson” For Future Projects #datacentre #johor #news
#AI
#DataCentre
Since when have we started calling a datacentre a 'campus'.
Implies a college or university.
Language is important.
Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings
Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/council-approves-lincolnshire-datacentre-despite-emissions-warnings?CMP=share_btn_url
Well roll out the red carpet. Because that's what the Southland District Council, Environment Southland and Invercargill City Council have done. They've all approved a 78,000sqm AI data centre to be built at Makarewa, north of Invercargill.
"Once operational, it would consume 280MW of power, making it New Zealand’s second-largest electricity user after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter."
For comparison, Tiwai Point uses 570MW and pays a mere 3.5c per kWh. There's no mention of how cheaply the AI-slop factory will get its electricity, but you can bet it's way less than consumers pay.
I wish that AI bubble would just get on with it and burst.
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/ai-factory-rival-smelter-power-use
Good to see demand management being tested to adjust the power needs of AI workloads without impacting latency, and to curtail energy usage to maintain grid stability temporarily.
#energy #power #electricity #grid #datacentre #datacenter #demandmanagement #nationalgrid #ESO #nebius #nvidia #emeraldai #AI
Emerald AI, EPRI, National Grid, Nebius, and NVIDIA today announced a landmark, UK-first demonstration proving high-performance AI infrastructure can operate as a flexible, grid-responsive asset. Using Emerald AI’s software, Emerald Conductor, to manage a cluster of NVIDIA GPUs, the trial validated that artificial intelligence data centres can dynamically adjust power consumption in response to real-time signals, without disrupting critical workloads.
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