Jason Jasonson
@jaseygalore.bsky.social
Disabled by #MyalgicEncephalomyeltis ° Ambulatory wheelchair user ° Nazi lives don't matter ° Science is real ° #AuDHD ° #Lutruwita
I mostly repost things rather than write Bluestuff because my mind isn't sharp and lively anymore
I mostly repost things rather than write Bluestuff because my mind isn't sharp and lively anymore
Reposted by Jason Jasonson
Far from serving as a sort of grid-expansion gym to help training for incoming electrification, data centres are actually eating up the finite resources need to accomodate billions of homes, vehicles and industrial facilities
Here's a remarkable example from Tasmania, Australia
Here's a remarkable example from Tasmania, Australia
There is really no escaping the fact that electrification = an overall massive reduction in energy consumption *but* a massive increase in *electricity* consumption.
This is why curbing pointless data centre growth is so important: make way for the socially critical stuff like electrification ->
This is why curbing pointless data centre growth is so important: make way for the socially critical stuff like electrification ->
Paper mill owner told not enough power for coal to electric conversion
Australia's only paper mill uses coal-fired boilers, which its new owner wants to convert to electric, but he says he has been told there is not enough local power in the Tasmanian grid to support thi...
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Far from serving as a sort of grid-expansion gym to help training for incoming electrification, data centres are actually eating up the finite resources need to accomodate billions of homes, vehicles and industrial facilities
Here's a remarkable example from Tasmania, Australia
Here's a remarkable example from Tasmania, Australia
Oh hell, that is a huge problem. HUGE 🥺
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Oh hell, that is a huge problem. HUGE 🥺
Jesus wept. Repeatedly!
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Jesus wept. Repeatedly!
Thank you, Roen. I'm going to need it 😞
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Thank you, Roen. I'm going to need it 😞
RoRD because my plan was deleted in an administrative error, but the fix was to start a new plan that is somewhere between 40-50% less rather than fix the mistake.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
RoRD because my plan was deleted in an administrative error, but the fix was to start a new plan that is somewhere between 40-50% less rather than fix the mistake.