Us-east-1 is the ginger cat of datacentres, it's going to be the one gets its head stuck in the dryer. Otoh, we think it is worse than it is because it is so heavily used, the world doesn't feel it as much when other dcs wobble, so I think "avoid use1" is probably not as useful as it might seem.
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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This video report 👇 by @edconway.bsky.social is well worth watching (6 minutes).
#AI #DataCentres #DataCenters #Economic #Economy #GDP #Bubble #BoomBust #Risk #Vulnerability
#AI #DataCentres #DataCenters #Economic #Economy #GDP #Bubble #BoomBust #Risk #Vulnerability
AI Boom or Bubble: Ed Conway goes inside the data centres powering the US economy
YouTube video by Sky News
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October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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B.C. Proposes Energy Rule Changes, Prioritizes Natural Resources Over AI and Data Centres
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https://www.thecanadareport.ca/featured/bc-ai-energy-rules/
#bcnews #energypolicy #naturalresources #ai #datacentres #economiclandscape #canada
Read more: 👇
https://www.thecanadareport.ca/featured/bc-ai-energy-rules/
#bcnews #energypolicy #naturalresources #ai #datacentres #economiclandscape #canada
B.C. Proposes Energy Rule Changes, Prioritizes Natural Resources Over AI and Data Centres
B.C. shifts energy rules to favor natural resources over AI, reshaping the province's economic landscape.
www.thecanadareport.ca
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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That's a lot of land, they need that for datacentres, JD Vances land acquisition company AcreTrader who specialise in buying up distressed farms and businesses will be along soon to make this dipshit an offer he won't be able to refuse and another little bit of America will belong to Peter Thiel
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Any efficiency gains from using green energy will soon be dwarfed by the massive power drain of endless AI slop datacentres that produce nothing of any value.
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Proper writeup coming soon; it's the product of a few lines of thought about how monstrous datacentres aren't the only way of having access to useful AI, and how we don't necessarily have to contribute to someone else's growth strategy by using it.
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Modular datacentres could soon dominate new builds — driven by AI, edge computing, and the need for sustainable, rapid deployment. Flexibility and speed could redefine how and where digital infrastructure evolves.
-> If the market rewards agility and efficiency strongly enough.
-> If the market rewards agility and efficiency strongly enough.
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Maybe look at the deepgreen model too, looking at edge deployment to where the heat from datacentres can be reused easily
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Demand for gas turbines on the rise largely driven by datacentres electricity demand
For all the posturing and fine talk, the AI boom is a boon for the fossil fuel industry, even though wind & solar can be constructed faster than the wait for a gas turbine
www.ft.com/content/dfd8...
For all the posturing and fine talk, the AI boom is a boon for the fossil fuel industry, even though wind & solar can be constructed faster than the wait for a gas turbine
www.ft.com/content/dfd8...
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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The Welsh Government is now primed to install nine Datacentres.
Giant servers guzzling water and spewing heat and noise into communities already scarred by deindustrialisation.
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Giant servers guzzling water and spewing heat and noise into communities already scarred by deindustrialisation.
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Wales’ ‘Free Zones’ Fiasco: Betting the Valleys on an AI Bubble Set to Burst – While Taxpayers Bankroll Big Tech’s Toxic Playground
Welsh Government is now primed to install nine Datacentres.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Normally use these to lift suspended floor tiles in DataCentres and Comms rooms - the ones without grilles to let the air through them...
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I disagree because of economies of scale. smaller datacentres do not have the same efficiencies (both economic and environmental)
have you *seen* the PUE of a Google or Amazon datacentre with one tenant and vertically integrated hw vs a Equinix or Digital Realty floor with many different tenants?
have you *seen* the PUE of a Google or Amazon datacentre with one tenant and vertically integrated hw vs a Equinix or Digital Realty floor with many different tenants?
If I had to guess, I’d guess this is the beginning of the death of public clouds. We’ll still *have* public clouds, but current clouds are synonymous with:
- internationally trusted
- runs public, critical, and consumer infrastructure intermixed
- wholly immune to market and customer influence
- internationally trusted
- runs public, critical, and consumer infrastructure intermixed
- wholly immune to market and customer influence
October 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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5/9 The government is making regulatory changes to manage the grid's future.
Power will be made available for #DataCentres, artificial intelligence, and #hydrogen production for export.
However, the changes will also permanently ban new BC Hydro connections for cryptocurrency mining.
#Crypto #AI
Power will be made available for #DataCentres, artificial intelligence, and #hydrogen production for export.
However, the changes will also permanently ban new BC Hydro connections for cryptocurrency mining.
#Crypto #AI
October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Urgh, those mini reactors are such a scam. People are only talking about them because the AI techbro ecosystem is pushing them hard to power their datacentres. They're a fantasy imo, and even if they worked they'd be useless for building a sustainable grid.
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Has already happened in some fields. If you can get into network engineering at any level, even for minimum wage for a year, do so. These jobs are not going away, since people will need to connect to all these datacentres, yet outside of India nearly everyone in the field is 50+.
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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'The powerful datacentres needed to provide AI demand huge amounts of energy... And so it is hardly surprising to find the Silicon Valley faithful at the head of a campaign to revive and reinvent the nuclear power industry... The last two years have seen a huge recommitment to nuclear energy'
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Time for de-centralised European services.
One way forward: regional, localised small to medium scale datacentres (as opposed to multi-acre facilities) for redundancy:
"This incident highlights the vulnerabilities of relying so much on cloud computing – or “the cloud” as it’s often called."
One way forward: regional, localised small to medium scale datacentres (as opposed to multi-acre facilities) for redundancy:
"This incident highlights the vulnerabilities of relying so much on cloud computing – or “the cloud” as it’s often called."
An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change
The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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OMG. The BC NDP finally made a sane decision. New law will protect consumers from price increases caused by new AI datacentres (big problem in the states) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. gov't proposes new power rules for AI, data centres, prioritizes jobs | CBC News
Rather than the current first-come, first-serve structure, the government says the new policy would prioritize natural resource and manufacturing projects, while artificial intelligence, data centres ...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Server infrastructure costing too much?
Need less capex spend?
Try centralising in giant monopoly datacentres
No backup, no failover
Just giant monopoly datacentres
Huge AWS bills too
You will certainly not regret giant monopoly datacentres
Need less capex spend?
Try centralising in giant monopoly datacentres
No backup, no failover
Just giant monopoly datacentres
Huge AWS bills too
You will certainly not regret giant monopoly datacentres
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Am also onboard with govs owning/renting/managing datacentres and servers for secret and above classifications
not US gov though, they have gov cloud high already so don’t need to do this
not US gov though, they have gov cloud high already so don’t need to do this
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I wonder if a useful heuristic here is centralised vs decentralised. The centralised infrastructure of datacentres is less likely to have consumer surplus than the decentralised infrastructure of e.g. fibre optics, mass internet access. So what if anything is decentralised in AI infrastructure?
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A successful physical breach can hit as hard as a cyber one.
Red teaming turns theory into proof - and assurance into advantage.
👉 Explore the blog: www.advent-im.co.uk/red-teaming-...
✍️Ellie Hurst, Commercial Director
#DataCentres #RedTeam #SecurityTesting #Governance #GRC
Red teaming turns theory into proof - and assurance into advantage.
👉 Explore the blog: www.advent-im.co.uk/red-teaming-...
✍️Ellie Hurst, Commercial Director
#DataCentres #RedTeam #SecurityTesting #Governance #GRC
Red teaming the walls: physical security testing for UK data centres — governance, resilience and commercial edge | Advent IM
Discover how physical red teaming boosts UK data-centre security, governance assurance, and commercial resilience.
www.advent-im.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A lot of the switches and dials that control stuff in all the other regions are here, so for example Amazon can't turn the lights on and off in any of their datacentres worldwide during the outage.
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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No to datacentres
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Why are UK banks and HMRC running services out of AWS datacentres in United States East? What personal data are they storing/processing there?
October 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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