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9d ago Meta's AI infra strategy is about physics, not just roadmaps. MTIA chips aim for 44% TCO cuts, yet power grid bottlenecks pose the real threat. Analyzing the vertical integration play: https://post… +1.5
10d ago Meta data centre will use 1.8 gigawatts and be connected to Alberta’s power grid, relying heavily on natural gas, creating a massive strain on Alberta’s grid, rapidly ramping up the demand for and … -8.0
9d ago A quintessential Canadian reason for a power outage, right behind "enraged moose headbutts snowmobile into power-pole" (I'm making it up, but I'm sure it's happened) +3.0
9d ago I suppose that’s why the Carney government wants to double the already very clean Canadian electricity grid to replace home and commercial building heating and transportation fossil fuels with elec… +6.0
10d ago Easy, 'How many Canadian Jobs will they create?' is the only question politicians ask. Saving Canadians money, decarbonizing our power grid and actually doing something to battle the climate crisis… -6.0
10d ago Canada's @Eavor Geothermal #2 in Time Magazine's Top 250 Cleantech Just finished a very successful "first of kind" project in Germany. Ready to scale. THIS should be the future of Canadian power… +6.5
9d ago Public Safety at Idaho State University sent an emergency alert at 2:30 p.m. on July 16 regarding a power outage at multiple campus locations. The alert stated Idaho Power has been contacted and Fa… -2.5
10d ago Update - Power Outage Surrey Campus Power has been temporarily restored. In-person teaching has been cancelled for the rest of the day. Campus buildings remain open but will close at 6 p.m. An upd… +1.5
10d ago KPU's Surrey campus is experiencing a power outage, which is not expected to be resolved by end of day. For more information and the latest updates, visit https://www.kpu.ca/operational-status -3.5
10d ago Due to the campus power outage today, our Hula Hoop Social originally scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. has been postponed. Don't worry, we'll still be spinning and socializing! Join us instead on T… +2.0
9d ago Gotta love that BC Hydro hasn’t got our planned power outage on their list of planned outages. Nor does it seem to have us listed under current outages now that power has gone off finally. Than… -4.0
9d ago And…..on top of it all we have a planned power outage tonight for 6 hrs.Sheesh! -2.0
10d ago I love books so much. I'm sitting at home, during a thunderstorm so intense I turned off the power strip with the wifi andTV, waiting as well for a planned power outage so I'm not running laundry/d… +4.5
9d ago 📰 #Finance "Spain and Portugal are experiencing a significant data center boom, but constraints around electrical grid capacity, network access and permitting are slowing the pace of new project d… -3.0
9d ago Iran told Houthis to shut down Bab el-Mandeb Strait if USA hits Iran’s power grid. This is a vital trade shortcut. Closing it forces ships to sail around Africa’s dangerous Cape of Good Hope instea… -6.0
9d ago Spent my power outage productively, at least. Set up Weimar to play around with the systems. That one little brown cube? The only one on the board? That's Hitler. Surely one little cube isn't gon… +1.0
9d ago The meme going around that "Every month of 2026, a major power outage affecting at least 100,000 people happened somewhere in the United States" is true. And this is weather-related damage. This… -4.0
10d ago Following the incident involving the main transformer at the Tabriz power plant in Iran, operational teams have been working around the clock to carry out repairs, and Unit No. 2 of the plant will … +3.5
10d ago The plan has been around for ages: Build renewable energy infrastructure and connect the country's electrical grid. +3.0
10d ago ...actually focused on fostering wellbeing for their society, have come up with a clever and interesting project: Electric powered school buses which when not driving school kids around, are used t… +5.5
10d ago like, yes, i hate datacenters powered by fossil fuels and think that they should not exist but i dream of ones powered by renewables and serving thousands if not millions of people around the worl… +6.0
10d ago My biggest problem with Gerrold on this issue is he utterly dismisses concerns with e.g. drinking water or the electricity grid around datacenters as "tropes" and "blah blah." Problems that we will… -4.0
10d ago A vehicle crashed into an electric utility box in Batavia causing a widespread hour-long power outage affecting around 600 customers. Police say the driver was also involved in an earlier two-vehic… -3.5
10d ago like chat idk theres wildfire smoke everywhere around where a lot ppl i know live including me, friend's town's power grid is partially shut off for today cuz ai needs all that power and water ig, … -6.0

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