Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Missing actual impact in meaningful global context. We can do better.
Data centers accounted for around 1.5% of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024.
Data centers will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by AI use... but that's just 10% of global electricity demand 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 to 2030, less than the share from industrial motors, air conditioning in homes and offices, or electric vehicles.
I don't know how well people remember the history, but Israel (mostly Bibi) has history of direct diplomatic humiliation and undermining of WH or SecState. GWB, Obama, Biden, Rice, Albright, Kerry, everyone, once they try to have some independent Middle-East policy.
Those come in form of announcements or actions during or after visits, or direct confrontation when both share a podium.
Unhinged or not agenda does not matter. US president has no say.
Mitford sisters – Downton Abbey with Swastikas. "They were steeped in radicalism, privilege, and a kind of casual cruelty that, if they’d been born in Salford rather than Swinbrook, would have earned them social services, not society pages."
If the Iranian leadership has the feeling that Israel wants to completely destroy Iran's military capabilities, why wouldn't they do something extreme like attacking US bases in the region, destroy oil installations in the neighbourhood , close Hormuz etc, while they still have the capabilities... 🤔
There doesn't seem to be an opening for de-escalation for Iran? #iran#israel#geopoliticsgeopolitics group
Does the pro-democracy movement in Iran support these attacks, and want help from Israel and the US? Or is this another case of someone outside the region knowing better.
I mean, monarchists and some other fringe groups do, but they are sorry bunch of pretenders getting shady support.
“The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers,” says the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”
✔ Continues the stable funding for Ukraine through the Ukraine Facility
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💧 water resilience
⚡ energy transition
This budget will continue to provide stable and predictable funding to power the EU’s political priorities!
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The EU is not only facing a tradewar (bad enough in itself) but potentially a total break-down in relations with the USA. I hope all scenarios and plans are ready. Also for example for the digital side of things. What if we have to quickly pull back our data/services from companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc. for critical data/applications? 🤔 #geopolitics#ICT#digital#trump#musk#cloud#microsoft#google#amazongeopolitics group
EU Data boundary means there are no data transfers.
The company being registered in the US does not mean that EU citizens working for Microsoft in EU follow US laws and executive orders and break EU laws. International companies follow the laws in each country they operate.
@jmcs
@ErikJonkergeopolitics group
Microsoft subsidiaries have lawyers and contracts in EU they don't breach local laws. Microsoft offices in EU would likely refuse to do that and inform EU.
Nadella would challenge order in the US court and meantime prepare to change corporate headwaters, or spin off Microsoft International B.V. (registered in Netherlands). Microsoft would stop being international company if it stayed in the US.
"... Microsoft’s new EU Data Boundary, combined with changes to its business model, as announced by Microsoft’s President Brad Smith in Brussels recently seem to prevent any data going from the EU to the US and might also contain a ringfence against the CLOUD Act. ....
Your source was released before Microsoft Data Bounday was released.
