Uh, oh. Cramer thinks more data centers is a bad thing. Time to go all in on data centers. "Jim Cramer expressed his frustration over Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL)'s plans to potentially add another 1,000 to 2,000 data centers on top of its existing 162. He raised concerns about the environmental impact of such expansion, noting that data centers currently consume about 4% of the world's energy. 'What drives me crazy is that Oracle has 162 data centers and is considering adding another 1,000 or 2,000. What does that do to the planet? If you think about it, data centers use about 4% of all energy today, and if that doubles to 8%, we need to control the 30% that's wasted.'"

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Jim Cramer Expresses Frustration Over Oracle Corporation (ORCL)’s Plans To Potentially Add 1,000 to 2,000 More Data Centers

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Recorded my final @The Progressive Bitcoiner interview with @Trey Walsh earlier today. Bittersweet to say the least but I finished the conversation feeling hopeful about the future of our left movement within bitcoin and I think Trey likely brought new people into the space who will pick up the torch that he carried after Mark stepped down. The struggle continues!

So, not a surprise to some, but Microsoft (and other large tech companies like it) are also/also becoming energy companies.

Ars Technica

Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years.

Pretty sure that doing a PhD adversely affected my mental health. But...it was really a result of the inherent power imbalance between PhD advisor and advisee. There are ways to limit that without limiting the freedom of the advisor, but departments seem unwilling to build on more sustainable models. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanwai/2024/09/19/can-pursuing-a-phd-impact-mental-health/

I admit I am a degrowther but I am starting to think that what I consider degrowth is maybe not what many other degrowthers see it to mean. There is a lot of ignorance around energy and technology the is pervasive in aspects of the degrowth/climate movement that is also mixed with doomer vibes. 1) As Baidrillard pointed out, we cannot escape capitalism as thus we cannot escape the technological advances that we have created as a result. But what we can do, imo, is find the communist, find the anarchist, elements that exist simultaneously in contradiction and build on these aspects to find a way out. The whole concept of the falling rate of profit (which Kliman argues is temporal and thus why many misunderstand it including Marxists) is one that can be also interpreted through creative destruction. When taken to its limit, we can see where a post-work, degrowth world could actually arise. I say this with respect, but it angers me to see rejection rather than embrace of the full spectrum of possibilities as the only way forward for so many of my colleagues in the climate movement. Lastly, Israel proved you can’t escape through low-fi tech to avoid surveillance and attacks. So QED.

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We should strive for a low tech world. The fewer modern gadgets we have the less easy it is to surveil & target us. The less we’ll consume ...

My noise canceling headphones broke yesterday. Crazy glue arrives today, pray to the plastic gods that this is repairable. I have really been struggling without them.

Happy for Trey, but this is sad news for me. I still think we need more content that takes a different perspective on bitcoin and which also challenges existing mythologies around bitcoin that exist within and outside of the bitcoin community. Honored to be the last episode, let’s make this a memorable one, Trey. View quoted note →

You look like a perfect fit For a girl in need of a tourniquet But can you save me? Come on and save me If you could save me From the ranks of the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone 'Cause I can tell you know what it's like A long farewell of the hunger strike But can you save me? Come on and save me If you could save me From the ranks of the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone. You struck me dumb, like radium Like Peter Pan, or Superman You have come to save me Come on and save me If you could save me From the ranks of the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone Except the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone But the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone Come on and save me Why don't you save me? If you could save me From the ranks of the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone Except the freaks Who suspect they could never love anyone Except the freaks Who could never love anyone

Today I learned about zombie servers in data centers. "Inactive servers (also referred to as comatose or 'zombie' servers), represent obsolete or unused servers that consume electricity but provide no useful information services. Previous studies have estimated that inactive servers represent 10%–30% of servers in US data centers [28–31]." (Shehabi et al., 2018) I can't imagine that these exist in a bitcoin mining facility. Zombie bitcoin miners sucking up electricity but not generating bitcoin?? The crazy thing is the 10-30% figure for non-crypto data centers. That's a lot of waste.

"Instead, she’ll pursue her campaign against Riot from afar—and widen her scope. She has joined the National Coalition Against Cryptomining, a protest group that backs a nationwide ban on crypto mining. “When we leave things up to each state, it’s like playing whack-a-mole,” says Sawicky. 'We need a big federal law.'" Wow, I did not know there was a national coalition against bitcoin mining...

WIRED

The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”