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unormal.bsky.social
because it's not a problem hyperscale will ever solve
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 AM
nrc.nl
Google en Microsoft verzwijgen energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters voor overheid
Google en Microsoft verzwijgen energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters voor overheid
Amerikaanse grootverbruikers van stroom verzwijgen het beslag dat ze leggen op het overbelaste Nederlandse elektriciteitsnet. Volgens Europese regels moeten ze hun gebruikscijfers openbaren, maar de overheid zegt geen juridische middelen te hebben om dat af te dwingen. „Er is geen politieke wil om data boven tafel te krijgen.”
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January 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
maeveynot.bsky.social
thanks to the internet, we can now build hyperscale chamber pot centers in communities where even poorer marginalized people live
pixelatedboat.bsky.social pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5d
I just hope Mamdani can finally bring an end to New Yorkers’ disgusting and archaic habit of emptying their chamber pots out the window without a care for who might be walking below
January 2, 2026 at 3:39 AM
theshoestring.bsky.social
AI hallucination? The Shoestring’s investigation into the status of the proposed hyperscale data center in Westfield uncovered signs the project’s developers have abandoned it, even after officials spent years arranging for tax breaks. By @jongerhardson.bsky.social theshoestring.org/2025/12/30/a...
AI Hallucination? Proposed Westfield data center appears abandoned by developers
The Shoestring's investigation uncovered signs the project's developers may have abandoned it, even after local officials spent years arranging for significant tax breaks.
theshoestring.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
josolivier.bsky.social
Google en Microsoft verzwijgen energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters voor overheidl:
Amerikaanse grootverbruikers van stroom verzwijgen het beslag dat ze leggen op het overbelaste Nederlandse elektriciteitsnet. Volgens Europese regels moeten gebruikscijfers openbaren
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Google en Microsoft verzwijgen energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters voor overheid
Stroomvoorziening: Amerikaanse grootverbruikers van stroom verzwijgen het beslag dat ze leggen op het overbelaste Nederlandse elektriciteitsnet. Volgens Europese regels moeten ze hun gebruikscijfers o...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
usrbinkat.io
🎉 Announcing 🎉

Kubernetes v1.36: Chromernetes

Featuring hyperscale chrome browser.

This release consists of 1 enhancement including 1 stable feature.

Spotlight on key updates:

Stable: One node per Tab for kernel level isolation and infinitely scalable LLM over WebGPU in WASM written in Rust.
A logo design combining the Google Chrome browser icon with the Kubernetes container orchestration platform symbol. The circular composition features Chrome's signature four-color scheme with red occupying the top arc, yellow on the right, green on the left, and blue at the bottom, all divided by white borders. At the center sits the Kubernetes ship wheel icon in white against a blue hexagonal background, maintaining its characteristic eight spokes representing container orchestration. Seven miniature browser window icons surround the Kubernetes wheel in a circular arrangement, each displaying the standard macOS-style traffic light buttons in their title bars with varying color combinations including red, yellow, green, and blue dots. The windows are connected to the central wheel by white geometric lines forming a hexagonal pattern, suggesting orchestrated browser tab management. Each window icon is rendered in white with subtle gray shading to indicate depth and dimensionality. This satirical "Chromernetes" logo visualizes the humorous concept of applying Kubernetes-style container orchestration to individual browser tabs, treating each tab as a separately managed node. The design cleverly merges Chrome's consumer browser identity with Kubernetes' enterprise infrastructure symbolism, creating a playful commentary on over-engineering web browsing through cloud-native architecture patterns. The polished rendering suggests official product branding while the absurdist premise lampoons both the complexity of modern container orchestration and the resource intensity of contemporary web browsers.
December 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
cosaingalway.bsky.social
"Grid capacity is being diverted to new hyperscale sites, transmission upgrades are being driven by their load, the state is pouring billions into emergency generators to stabilise supply. Households face higher bills, electrification plans have stalled, climate targets are slipping out of reach."
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 8d
Ireland has one of the world's highest concentrations of data centers. The expansion has reshaped the grid & deepened fossil fuel use. As the EU pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning, writes Louis Boyd-Madsen. Read our investigation with AlgorithmWatch:
What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans | TechPolicy.Press
Louis Boyd-Madsen traces how a model of unregulated digital growth has outpaced energy planning in Ireland, and why it matters for the EU’s AI ambitions.
buff.ly
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
febrifuge.bsky.social
And that means a moratorium on the push for hyperscale data centers that are parasites on our communities and currently threatening your and my home town of Tucson, right? And establish guard rails to protect our people, communities, and planet from the heedless rush to AI by tech oligarchs, yes?
December 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
radiohusky.us
Nah

The grumpy hyperscale computing engineer is tho!
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
samd.bsky.social
what I assumed neo-brandesians were: normal people who think huge monopolies are bad

what they actually are: extremely online weirdos addicted to picking fights against progressives for the crime of wanting to build more clean energy and housing

what a bizarre group of people
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser X.com Wait is this you @JesseJenkins? Are you working with "hyperscalers?" linkedin.com/ posts/jessedje... 9:21 linkedin.com/posts/jesst + 35 : Jesse Jenkins • 2nd Associate professor of energy syste.... + Follow 2mo • Edited I recently co-founded Firma Power with Scott Burger & Brent Alderfer, a new venture assembling portfolios of resources to deliver clean, firm, load-enabling power to hyperscale data centers and other large loads. World-class analytics is our competitive edge, and we want YOU to join the team. We're hiring for both analytics and software engineering positions now! Check out these opportunities and apply at https://Inkd.in/e52c3fRF Come work with me to help build the future of clean power! Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins • 10h X You mean is the Linkedin post from the profile linked from my profile here me? Yes dude. It's me. See my pinned post here too. Not hard to connect those dots. 2 202 Ill 6.8K Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser• 10h This is such an obvious conflict of interest! Is your academic salary inadequate for your family's needs? 14 172 • 3 ill 40K Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins• 10h ... It is indeed a disclosed and established financial interest, which everyone is well aware of. I use my expertise to work with several companies advancing clean energy and decarbonization solutions, all clearly outlined on my Linkedin, bio, CV and in every paper I write. 3 142 Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser • 9h Conflicts of interest that are disclosed are STILL conflicts of interest. How often are you quoted on energy policy with a description that refers to you as a consultant to Al/BigTech on how they can rapidly build out their (deeply unpopular!) data centers? ... 14 ) 3 ill 4.4K 企 Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins • 8h ... I'm perfectly happy with my "conflicts" and proud of the work I do with the private sector, including my new company. We have to expand the toolkit of climate solutions and make them work in the real world. Working with companies at the frontier of climate solutions is exactly the way I want to spend my "extracurricular time. And I disclose these interests all the time so no one is confused, including to reporters and policy makers whenever relevant to the topic at hand. 2 117 ill 2.2K 1
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
nodesertdatacenter.com
Our officials need to listen to experts like Jackie, who can clearly explain how the proliferation of hyperscale data centers is built on debt, how they're unsustainable, and what it means to her as a Marana resident who wants continue living here. From the Marana Planning Commission meeting 12/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
woodsfern.bsky.social
The hyperscale data centers that enable GenAI are destroying marginalized and rural communities. These companies are suing municipalities that fight back. Our students, teachers, families are all poorer -in health, environment, imagination- for it. This is an embarrassment.
rweingarten.bsky.social Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14d
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
theregister.com
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?
Total operational capacity just keeps rising Hyperscale datacenter operators nearly tripled their spending on infrastructure over the past three years in response to the AI craze, while the amount of operational capacity added each quarter has increased by 170 percent, with little sign so far of any slowdown.…
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ntauthority.me
licking at hyperscale..
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
whitchmi.bsky.social
Disgusting. I have no doubt that the Google, Meta, Oracle, Amazon, and other Big Tech donors are a key reason for Trump trying to keep AI unregulated and a major reason states are being inundated by resource-thirsty hyperscale AI data centers on every piece of open rural ground they can find. 🤬
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
edzitron.com
Last week, Blue Owl (a private investment firm) pulled out of the $10bn Stargate Michigan data center. This is catastrophic for the industry - Blue Owl pulled together *all the money* that has gone into the biggest data center projects in the world.
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The Blue Owl In The Coal Mine - And The 2026 Data Center Debt Reckoning Hey there, how are you? Long day? It's about to get longer, because I'm about to teach you about Blue Owl Capital, a "Business Development Company," and one of those "private credit" firms you've heard about recently. Per Investopedia: Created by the U.S. Congress in 1980, business development companies (BDCs) are specialized, closed-end funds designed to fuel economic growth by investing in small- to medium-sized enterprises and financially distressed businesses. These organizations not only provide the necessary capital to help emerging firms in their early phases but also assist struggling companies in restoring fiscal health. Publicly traded on major stock exchanges, such as the AMEX and Nasdaq, BDCs present high-risk and high-reward opportunities for investors. They empower smaller, nonaccredited investors to participate in the growth of young and distressed companies, differentiating themselves from traditional venture capital funds. Things are a little more complex with Blue Owl, which has a publicly-traded stock called OWL that represents the parent company, and OBDC, the business development company that's making all of these investments. There are other pieces, but they're not important to what we're talking about. Sort of. Blue Owl lends a lot of money, and has been a huge part of the AI data center boom, while also finding itself incredibly exposed to both CoreWeave and OpenAI's likely insolvencies, other than when it spent $1 billion on IPI Partners' 2.2GW of data centers in October 2024. Blue Owl's Exposure To CoreWeave In August 2024, Blue Owl announced a $5 billion joint venture with Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers, with the intention to "deploy up to $5 billion for turnkey AI/HPC data center developments supporting CoreWeave and other hyperscale and enterprise customers." In December 2024, the joint venture raised $600 million to build a data center in Chesterfield Virginia, ostensibly for the construction. In May 2025, the joint venture raised another $750 million. In August 2025, the joint venture, which was at this point closed (?), would raise $4 billion...to build data centers for CoreWeave in Lancaster Pennsylvania. This data center had previously been announced in July 2025, but did not at the time disclose any involvement from the joint venture. You may wonder what happened in Virginia, and the answer is fire! In September 2025, Chirisa Technology Parks' data center caught fire for the second time in two months, and according to Data Center Dynamics, two of the three planned data centers are still in progress. Blue Owl's Exposure To OpenAI Stargate Abilene ($3 billion): Blue Owl organized a $3.4 billion joint venture with Crusoe and Primary Digital Infrastructure for Stargate Abilene (OpenAI) that was later expanded to $15 billion. Stargate New Mexico ($3 billion): Blue Owl sunk around $3 billion into Stargate New Mexico, a project that does not appear to have started construction, and either helped or is helping organize around $18 billion in loans according to The Information. And then, of course, there was Michigan.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
leinaht.bsky.social
turn all the hyperscale data centers into seedboxes and encode/remux machines
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
emilymbender.bsky.social
In fact, the computation is (again) highly concentrated, but off-campus, in the form of data centers, especially hyperscale data centers. And these are important locations of resistance --- especially the folks organizing to prevent their construction.

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December 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
eriknordman.bsky.social
"Despite criticism that they were acting too fast, state utility regulators on Thursday approved DTE Energy’s proposal to supply power for Michigan’s first hyperscale data center — while tacking on a host of conditions that aim to protect ratepayers from subsidizing the facility."
Regulators approve DTE contracts for Michigan’s first hyperscale data center - Bridge Michigan
Regulators tacked on a host of conditions that, they say, protect DTE ratepayers from subsidizing the hefty cost of delivering energy to the facility. Data center opponents expressed outrage, while bu...
bridgemi.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
kentuckypublicradio.org
Maysville leaders have signed NDAs with an undisclosed tech company looking to develop a hyperscale data center campus that could span thousands of acres. Residents have expressed concern about the lack of transparency and potential effects of the project. From @weku.bsky.social
Northern Kentucky residents raise concerns over a massive, secretive data center proposal
The Ohio River town of Maysville has been in talks with an undisclosed company looking to develop a proposed hyperscale data center campus that could span thousands of acres.
www.weku.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
basefortify.bsky.social
☁️ AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform dominate the market.
They offer powerful services — but also complex pricing, deep vendor lock-in, and exposure to non-EU jurisdiction, even when workloads run in EU regions.

#CloudComputing #PlatformRisk
Google Cloud Platform logo on a dark blue background, symbolizing hyperscale cloud services.
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
emilymbender.bsky.social
And in the process harming both the information ecosystem (text that no one is accountable for literally in the way of text that the authors themselves stand behind) and the physical one (pointless compute cycles, further motivation for more hyperscale datacenters).

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December 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
datacenter.bsky.social
The hyperscale data center sector is shifting from broad geographic expansion toward growth increasingly constrained by grid capacity, land availability, and regulatory complexity, according to analysis from DC Byte.

Read more ▶️ www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers...
Global Hyperscale Growth Persists Despite Grid, Land Constraints
Hyperscalers shift buildouts to power-rich regions and prioritize early PPAs, substation delivery timelines, and modular designs to secure capacity.
www.datacenterknowledge.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
cryptovka-feed.bsky.social
✴️ Hyperscale Data (GPUS) announced that as of December 14, its Bitcoin reserves reached ~$75.5 million, representing 97.5% of its market capitalization. The company owns 498.46 BTC and has allocated an additional $31.5 million for future purchases

#BTC #HYPE #crypto
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Starke County, Indiana voted 75% for Trump in 2024.

But now they're opposing Trump's AI agenda, and the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a 12 month pause on new hyperscale data centers.

Banning AI data centers is becoming increasingly popular.

www.youtube.com/shorts/xCQah...
Trump is backing AI. This Trump-voting town wants to ban AI data centers anyways.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM