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“A 15,000 sq metre #DataCentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its impact on culturally significant sites. The three-storey, 120-megawatt #GreenSquare datacentre in the town of #Hazelmere had been intended to power #CloudComputing and the acceleration of #ArtificialIntelligence, but faced fierce community backlash.

A City of #Swan council review of the proposed development, which was to be located 15km east of #Perth, attracted almost 1,900 public submissions. The #council last week released its responsible authority report into the datacentre, in which council staff recommended rejecting the proposal.

In the event of a power outage, the noise of the #DieselGenerators needed to keep the centre in operation would exceed allowable daytime and night-time levels, the council found. A nearby #school and local #residents would have faced the noise had the generators been in operation.”

#AI / #economics / #Externalities / #Australia <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/15/developer-withdraws-plans-for-perth-datacentre-after-fierce-community-opposition>

Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

The Guardian
Doctora Malka OlderApr 29
it always was meme #externalities

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5wgp627dhdxxx7zvmtpoz6yc/post/3mklipfhlgc2r
Show threadAlbert CardonaApr 7

Now imagine a company that said, «yes, after 5 years of intensive in-house use, we can assert with confidence that this is a good laptop. We are now pushing it out into production, is available for purchase.»

Now imagine that was mandated by law as part of both repairability and durability requirements, sending "planned obsolescence" into oblivion.

Frankly, that's how it should be. For clothes, washing machines, cars, anything that is manufactured and has a limited lifetime, yet shouldn't, or, its lifetime should be counted in decades, even in generations. Consumer society is only consuming ourselves and the planet we so dearly depend on.

Would the cost raise? On paper, no: would only be pushed some years into the future. In practice, the lack of a short-term incentive would prevent any laptop from being manufactured at all, so the cost might as well be infinite.

One wonders what can be done that is practical and implementable now to tame the madness and bring into the cost all the externalities – the latter should be the only source of additional costs, and would be minimized the longer the lifetime of a product is.

#ConsumerSociety #PlannedObsolescence #ConsumerMarket #externalities

Piškvor 🇨🇿🇺🇦Mar 26
I mean, it did end in a long BOOM, now that we're reaping the fallout of those "25 years of prosperity" #externalities
Show threadmjMar 11
There's a long list of well-known #externalities that the profit-addicted entities impose on the world. The narrative of "public vs private" is a false dichotomy. Both are created through our collective power, manifested by our current choice of #nationstate organization who grants their status.
Alexander J. SteinFeb 20
Using various True Cost Accounting methods, a new study finds that animal-based products consistently entail substantially higher external costs than plant-based alternatives. Meat & dairy products, in particular, generate considerable externalities: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... #TCA #Externalities >>

Redirecting
WIST QuotationsFeb 11

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of life, not a hard separate entity like a billiard-ball, which can have no relation with other such entities except that of collision.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/819…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #body #engagement #externalities #interest #life #living #meaningoflife #relationship #self #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selfdenial #selfsufficiency #separation #spirit #worldliness

Russell, Bertrand - Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 "The Happy Man" (1930) | WIST Quotations

In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of…

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BellingenNSWJan 31

Let's cover the Mid North Coast of NSW in plastic..

Image:
"Surrounding the town of El Ejido, Almeria Province, southern Spain is a sea of greenhouses, stretching for tens of kilometers. Millions of tons of vegetables are exported to other European countries and other parts of the world. The image covers an area of 19 x 30.5 km, was acquired July 20, 2008, and is located at 36.75 degrees north latitude, 2.75 degrees west longitude."
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/almeria-spain/

NSW - Traumatic landscapes of plastic, pollution and exploitation
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115991606657243814
#NSW #industrialisation #SeaOfPlastic #plastic #MidNorthCoast #blueberries #agribusiness #plantations #externalities #EcologicalViolence

Show threadSu_GJan 27

@Susan60
Also true. The fetish for the private sector!! 🤑Why can’t we move on? Time & time again we learn through bad experience that the private sector provision of essential goods & especially services, has to be regulated, monitored, & experience consequences when it does the wrong thing. Perhaps when all that is added together, in some ‘Social Economics’ or ‘cost benefit analysis’ that actually includes all the externalities, it will be found to be a more effective use of public monies to offer services through public sector structures. 🤔

Oooo now I feel I’m ranting!!

#SocialEconomics #PrivateSector #PublicSector #essentialGoods #essentialServices # CostBenefitAnalysis #externalities #PublicMonies #Taxation

@joannaholman @Philipnschofield

Show threadRichard RatheJan 22

@ProPublica

"Lemon Socialism" just like American Healthcare!

Actually, most (all?) "extractive" industries are socialized in this way. They "lease" access to public lands or resources like water... do their extractive thing... produce toxins and/or environmental damage... then move on and the public (taxpayers) either have to pay for clean up or live with the degradation. 😠

#LemonSocialism #Capitalism #Externalities #Environment