New data by CBS, the Dutch statistics agency, suggest that data centres consumed 4,6 % of the Netherlands’ electricity in 2024. In 2017, data centre consumption amounted to just 1,5 % of all electricity supplied.

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Institutional websites now have to come with a generative AI hallucination warning.

Seen while browsing through the website of a large art museum in Denmark

Calling all #streetlibrary / #freelittlelibrary / #Minibieb enthusiasts!

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Special shout-out to their lived commitment to transparency, which is one of the 7 key principles outlined by the report.

[screenshot from the reference section of the report]

The chaos agent in me would find this very funny

Train them young, train them right!

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“Machine learning librarian” 🤡

This is the dry and fire-scarred landscape we encountered when visiting the site of the planned Meta data centre on the outskirts of Talavera de la Reina, a project “offshored” to this dry region from its originally planned location on Dutch land reclaimed from the sea

A well informed peer informed me yesterday that it seems highly likely that Microsoft's growing cluster of hyperscale data centres in North Holland are used as the main backbone for Microsoft/OpenAI's generative AI computing needs for the whole of Western Europe.

Greetings from brother Keroppi

Sharing this call on behalf of a collective working on a book about children’s drawings from Gaza.

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Maybe, it’s time to give this platform another chance! Céu Azul certainly sounds poetic