one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
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one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
Breaking news on the price of the wind and the sun:
This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.
these guys all intend to be retired by the time the check comes due, the costs (cultural and financial) will all be thrown in the lap of the Democratic party as per tradition
though I'm sure Politico points that out
youtu.be/c0xDNtqNcAc?...
"WH apparently did not realize that starting a war with Iran *with strikes aiming to remove the regime from power* would trigger Iranian action against Hormuz and regional energy infrastructure.
They directly threatened this regime's survival.
What did they think would happen?" -- Gregory Brew
The problem with "Dems shouldn't talk about climate change, they should only talk about affordability" is that voters already recognize that the two things are connected and want solutions.
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
This is such a perfect metaphor for the moment we are in. A grid that is awash in low cost, clean power doesnβt need expensive, dirty coal. And the Trump administration is trying to force them to run the expensive stuff anyway. www.utilitydive.com/news/washing...
People are pissed off about the rising cost of home insurance, understand that climate change-driven extreme weather disasters are making things more expensive, and support holding Big Oil accountable for those costs rather than everyday Americans. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...
''CGD operators said replacing contracted Qatari volumes with spot LNG priced at more than double the contracted rate could erode CNG's price advantage and result in a permanent shift of customers to electric vehicles."
Look at that.
Thank you Big Tech for hoovering up all the electricity and water and raising costs for American families in order meet the demand for personalized psychosis machines.
New Brattle report: Europe could get much farther pivoting to "clean flexibility" than it will trying to find alternative gas suppliers.
We're seeing that gas dependence ties you to just as much uncertainty, volatility, & inflation as dependence on oil. The only real independence is clean.
More lawmakers want to shield Big Oil companies from accountability over their role in the climate crisis.
π£ Big Oil should not be above the law! π£
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictβand 9000
miles from North Americaβmakes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
They voted to gut the stateβs climate law, and are on track to lose their election tonight.
mark teixeira once tried to get bees to stop swarming at a spring training game by bringing a plastic bear honey bottle out of the clubhouse, he will be the republican partyβs top scientific mind in congress
#WALeg missed an opportunity to protect energy affordability, grid reliability, and clean energy in data centers. Lobbying by , tech firms helped to stop legislative action this year. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Unimaginable amounts of money that could go to health care, education, environmental protection, cutting our deficit, or countless other important uses is going to fund Trumpβs senseless war in Iran @ryanlcooper.com @prospect.org
Too big to fail, too big to be regulated, too big to be asked to pay for their own electricity to spare the public from higher costs. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...
I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.
Setting aside the creepy (and not original, other companies do this) use of AI here to manufacture words from the dead, this framing also reinforces the Western belief that grief is something is to be cured, moved past, ended, with a terminal point of 'going back to how things were before.'
One failure of the DC press corps in recent years is that no one ever thought to ask Trumpworld leaders: βIs the End Times a bad thing we should avoid? Or something your faith compels you to look forward to and want to bring about more quickly?β
It's a start! Thanks to the over 200 Oregonians who took action last week to testify or write to the governor's data center advisory council last week to make your voices heard! Because of your actions, we were able to win this 1.5 yr moratorium on data center tax breaks. https://loom.ly/6GqJ-Ko
December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. π₯π₯π₯
One conclusion you could draw is that a blind commitment to treating Markets as if they're some kind of natural law will result in your economy being manipulated by powerful market actors. Maintaining economic agency means being willing to counter with policy, like cheap financing for renewables.
Me on US-Iran strikes media webinar earlier today:
"This incursion is a bonanza for US LNG exporter and a catastrophe for everyone else...
"The argument that LNG is somehow a kind of energy transition partner is falling apart before our very eyes.β
#LNG #Iran #USLNG #MiddleEast
A moment to stop and take a deep breath and collectively ask ourselves if we want a world built around a polluting fossil fuel prone to sudden price spikes, or cheaper, cleaner, more stable wind/solar/batteries.
screenshot of Mac's "upgrade to macOS Tahoe" prompt
my productivity and creativity are doing just fine thanks. what you mean is will I let you send alerts asking if I need the computer's help every time I'm trying to work in a document. or cleaning up a photo. or in Garageband. anywhere. big nope, only upgrade on pain of death at this point
