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Levka

#DataCenters #space #dubious

"It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but Stephen Eisele is confident that one day his company will open a data centre on the Moon.

'The way we see it is that by putting the data centre in space, you're really offering unparalleled security,' says the president of Lonestar Data Holdings.

Last month, the Florida-based firm claimed to have successfully tested a tiny data centre the size of a hardback book that hitched a ride to the Moon on the Athena Lunar Lander from US space exploration firm Intuitive Machines. This, in turn, had been launched by a rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Data centres are the vast warehouses that house stacks of computers that store and process data used by websites, companies and governments.

Lonestar says that putting them on the Moon will offer customers secure, reliable data processing, while taking advantage of unlimited solar energy to power them."

bbc.com/news/articles/cjewvpkw

The Athena Lunar Lander from US space exploration firm Intuitive Machines
BBC News · The plans to put data centres into orbit and on the moon - BBC NewsProponents say space-based data centres will be more secure, but sceptics say big hurdles remain.
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Yann 不停 Heurtaux :antifa: 🔻

On aurait Hendrik Davi (Député de Marseille depuis 2022 - à l’époque LFI-NUPES -, réélu en 2024 en tant qu’un des 5 « frondeurs » pour L’APRÈS sans l’investiture NFP, donc Groupe écolo), en train de progressivement monter en puissance sur le #numérique via la question des #datacenters, et qui relaye donc notamment l’excellent boulot de @lenuageetaitsousnospieds.
Vous avez identifié d’autres élus « de gôche » récemment qui émergeraient sur le sujet au Parlement français?
mediapart.social/@mediapartblo

MediapartLe Club de Mediapart (@mediapartblogs@mediapart.social)Exigeons la transparence sur les «Data Centers»! Dans cette note de blog, je reviens sur le développement des datacenters notamment à Marseille. Je propose que nous reflechissions plus à nos usages numériques. Iil est nécessaire d’exigence la transparence sur le type de données stockées et sur les ressources consommées par ces data centers. ✒️ Par hendrik davi | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/hendrik-davi/blog/110425/exigeons-la-transparence-sur-les-data-centers?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs
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MMR Nmd

Comme pour Marine, la loi, c'est pour les autres.
Malgré nos (trop rares) lois qui protègent les communes contre l'invasion des projets polluants, le gouvernement a décidé de simplifier l'implantation de data-centers, gourmands en énergie et voraces en eau.
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Du 8 au 11 avril, les député·es examineront en séance publique le projet de loi de « simplification de la vie économique ».

Cette loi fourre-tout, conçue sur mesure pour répondre aux demandes des industriels, contient notamment un article 15 qui permettrait à l’État d’imposer la construction d’immenses data centers aux collectivités locales et à la population.

Pour ne pas laisser les multinationales de la tech s’allier au gouvernement français pour alimenter cette fuite en avant délétère et écocide, La Quadrature du Net et le collectif Le Nuage était sous nos pieds, en lien avec les membres de la coalition Hiatus, appellent à la suppression de l'article 15 et à l’adoption d’un moratoire sur la construction des grands entrepôts à serveurs !

#DataCenters #GreenWashing

video.liberta.vip/w/1VgjonnHfS

PeerTubeENCORE UNE LOI DE MERDE - Simplification de l'implantation de data centersBy La Quadrature du Net
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Nonilex

Complicating matters, #tech companies are approaching multiple #power utility providers …seeking multiple bids for the same project, inflating power demand outlooks….

"What we're seeing is this huge proposed influx of these abstract projects that nobody knows anything about," Jon Gordon, a director at the *clean* #energy trade group, Advanced Energy United, whose members include clean power & large energy users like #DataCenters.

#Climate#electricity#grid
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dada

Du Nord de la France à Jakarta, #Microsoft a bien arrêté plusieurs projets de data centers - next.ink/179479/du-nord-de-la-

> Microsoft a récemment arrêté ou reporté certains projets de construction de #datacenters en Indonésie, au Royaume-Uni, en Australie, aux États-Unis et en France. Alors qu'il y a encore quelques mois, la mode était à la construction d'énorme centres pour l'IA, le géant du numérique planifiait déjà de freiner ses projets.

Next · Du Nord de la France à Jakarta, Microsoft a bien arrêté plusieurs projets de data centers - NextMicrosoft a récemment arrêté ou reporté certains projets de construction de data centers en Indonésie, au Royaume-Uni, en Australie, aux États-Unis et en France. Alors qu’il y a encore quelques mois, la mode était à la construction d’énorme centres pour l’IA, le géant du numérique planifiait déjà de freiner ses projets. Microsoft est bel et […]
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CM Thiede

@gerrymcgovern and as much as a "rate structure for data center-scale customers" sounds meaningful, how will it account for all the residential customers cooking up slop?

It isn't free.

Sounds like rate hikes are coming whether we use our own intellect or not. Thanks a heap co-intelligence.

urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/04/04/

Urban MilwaukeeNew Rates From We Energies Intended To Make Data Centers Cover Their CostsThe proposal comes as several energy-intensive data centers are planned within We Energies’ service territory
#Energy#ai#DataCenters
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jbz

🗑️ Data centers contain 90% crap data
—@gerrymcgovern

｢ We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again. We’re destroying our environment to take 1.9 trillion photos every year. That’s more photos taken in one single year in the 2020s than were taken in the entire 20th century. That more than 200 photos taken for every child, woman and man alive ｣

gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers

Gerry McGovernData centers contain 90% crap data
#datacenters#climatechange#ai
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DoomsdaysCW

The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.

by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.

"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."

Read more:
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#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife

PocketThe Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the CloudAnthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
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