Graham F. Scott
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Graham F. Scott
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it’s *all* running on oil
For the last few months I've been going through public documents, permits, and satellite images to track the largest data centers in the US.

Today I published the first story about what I've learned.

🧵

www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...
These Data Centers Are Getting Really, Really Big
Gigawatt-sized data centers are becoming the new normal
www.distilled.earth
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Very honoured and touched to receive this award. Thank you @canadamediaawards.bsky.social! Thank you also to @gfscott.com for nominating me and to the lovely people who wrote letters of support. This means so much. Thank you!
🏆 Lisa Whittington-Hill is the 2025 recipient of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement!

Publisher of This Magazine and tireless industry champion, Lisa has shaped Canadian magazines for over two decades.

🎟️ Tickets for the gala go on sale tomorrow!

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April 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Brutal
March 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Two problems with the contemporary ultrarich, compared to their 19th century counterparts, is that they have no taste and they don't fear god
say what you will about the ultra rich of 150 years ago, at least they built libraries and roads
Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR.

aftermath.site/meta-horizons-...
February 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Really solid post from @himself.bsky.social that takes the side of "misinformation isn't the problem" but in a smart, interesting way that suggests one problem with social media is not that it indoctrinates, but changes what *we think other people think*. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
January 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Finally nuked Twitter for good, but because I'm both sentimental and a sicko, I made my own personal Twitter archive: twitter.gfscott.com

And you can too! It uses @11ty.dev to process a `tweets.js` file into a static site: gfscott.com/blog/elevent...
Archiving your Twitter account with Eleventy / Graham F. Scott
The Twitter we knew is dead, but I wanted to preserve an archive of my account, on my own terms. Here's how I did it.
gfscott.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
I wrote a sternly worded letter to the government, then compounded my humiliation by blogging about it:
gfscott.com/blog/bill-21...
Save the bike lanes / Graham F. Scott
The Environmental Registry of Ontario asked for comment on the province’s plot to kill Toronto’s bike lanes. Here’s what I said.
gfscott.com
October 27, 2024 at 6:15 PM
100% serious that the only way to actually change public policy anymore is to fuck up rich people's cottages
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/o...
August 23, 2023 at 2:00 PM
Gasadalur, Faroe Islands
August 11, 2023 at 9:36 AM
Patricia Lockwood on David Foster Wallace ✅
Patricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now? David Foster Wallace · LRB 13 July 2023
We knew he was not benevolent exactly (well, some of us knew) but there was the sense that he was suffering on the same...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 29, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Updating my list of all the services where I once had profiles. My own version of those still-life paintings where they added a skull to remind you that you're going to die
July 12, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Everyone creating Fireworks Content
July 5, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Leavenworth, Wa.
July 3, 2023 at 3:18 PM