We all know that public #administrations are very dependent on #Microsoft. @tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierungnow wrote a piece on the German government's dependency on #Oracle, and it is well worth your read (paywall). https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/umstrittener-vier-milliarden-deal-mit-oracle

#Germanpolitics #OpenSource #Datacenters #Dependency #StrategicITAutonomy

#Datacenters #Google #Eau

Consommation d'eau, page 95 du rapport 2023.

https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2023-environmental-report.pdf
⬇️

Le Gallon US fait 3,7854118 Litres...

Je me demande si mes calculs sont bons... 25 milliards de litres dont 19 milliards de litres d'eau potable ?

20 juillet 2022

Coup de chaud sur l’Europe… et ses datacenters

28 juillet 2023

Datacenters : le spectre d’un stress hydrique à Londres

https://www.silicon.fr/datacenters-stress-hydrique-londres-470457.html

en france ?

Étude sur l’écologisation de l’informatique en nuage et des services et réseaux de communications électroniques : Vers la neutralité climatique d’ici à 2050
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/fr/library/study-greening-cloud-computing-and-electronic-communications-services-and-networks-towards-climate
https://www.francedatacenter.com/ressources/

#datacenters #ressources

Seems a important.
According to The Economist Aug 19th

The International Energy Agency reckons data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption, roughly the same as the entire British economy. That is expected to rise to 4% by
2030.

#energy #computing #datacenters #economist

Seems a important.
According to The Economist Aug 19th

The International Energy Agency reckons data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption, roughly the same as the entire British economy. That is expected to rise to 4% by
2030.

#energy #computing #datacenters #economist

#Virginia is making great progress developing #cleanenergy solutions for power-hungry #datacenters. Plug into #nuclear energy!
https://cardinalnews.org/2023/08/21/two-tech-hub-bids-seek-to-boost-virginias-nuclear-industry/

How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips - The most visible winner of the artificial intelligence boom achieved its dominance by bec... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/technology/nvidia-ai-chips-gpu.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #nvidiacorporation #cloudcomputing #computerchips #huangjen-hsun #datacenters #start-ups

Who has over half all Arm #server #CPU in the world? #Amazon
Amazon has slightly above 50 percent of all Arm server CPUs in the world deployed in its #AmazonWebService (#AWS) #datacenters, said the analyst.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/

#Energy challenge: "Virginia’s #datacenters process 70%+ of world’s internet data, consume ~25% of state’s energy." 👀
Solved with #nuclear: "fleet of 4-6 SMRs will power 20-30 data centers, generate #hydrogen fuel, provide backup power for VA’s grid." ✅
#energytransition
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5268/ip3-joins-green-energy-partners-for-surry-green-energy-center-project/

@gerrymcgovern @Walrus

And it is tap water. So #DataCenters compete directly with the vital needs of the population in activities such as drinking water.

@elaine you didn't stuff your machines with explosives to remote destroy them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FdvWuSl7eY&t=58s

I mean I know some folks that did and they literally have their stuff in #CyberBunker-Style #datacenters and their machines will literally blow themselves up if handled without them disarming it.

Can't say where or who but rest assured ut's a legit bona-fide business...

SecurityAffairs: Nine flaws in CyberPower and Dataprobe solutions expose data centers to hacking https://securityaffairs.com/149478/security/cyberpower-dcim-pdu-flaws.html #informationsecuritynews #ITInformationSecurity #PierluigiPaganini #SecurityAffairs #BreakingNews #SecurityNews #datacenters #hackingnews #CyberPower #Security #Hacking

Les #datacenters sont au cœur de la #secheresse en Europe et pourrait l'aggraver.

👉 https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/thirsty-data-centres-are-making-europe-s-dry-summers-even-dryer

#eau #tech #changementclimatique #climatechange #dry

@NatureMC

Yes, this is a serious problem that people are often unaware of.
Here in Spain we are fighting desertification due to climate change and there is just a proliferation of hyperscale #DataCenters that can leave us without water.

The other day we participated in a BBC podcast advising on our topic #Water and #DataCenters. And the reporter raised "the question":

❓ What could we do on an individual level to reduce the water consumption of our data?

And a shiver ran down our spine: Are we going to fall back into individualising blame for yet another polluting activity? 🤦‍♀️

What is this #IndividualisationOfBlame? Well, it is to focus on individual behaviours instead of structural elements or blaming the real culprits.

The same happened to us with the Carbon Footprint.

The #CarbonFootprint is a concept invented by British Petroleum to divert attention from their responsibility for #ClimateChange to individual people. So people would think their problem would be driving the car to their jobs rather than the responsibility of the oil companies and big corporations.

Bitcoin Miner Genesis Digital Assets Opens 3 New Data Centers in South Carolina - Genesis Digital Assets (GDA), one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining companies,... - https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-miner-genesis-digital-assets-opens-3-new-data-centers-in-south-carolina/ #genesisdigitalassets #localcommunities #bitcoinmining #miningbitcoin #southcarolina #esg-friendly #cleanenergy #datacenters #facilities #btcmining #expansion #miningbtc #hashrate #bitcoin #mining #miner #jobs

Why do cloud titans keep building #datacenters in #America's hottest city?
100 days over 100F and historic drought in #Phoenix, #Arizona don't faze #Microsoft or #Google. A state bill signed into law in early 2021, extended #taxbreaks on the use, installation, assembly, repair or maintenance of #datacenter equipment, for most Arizona datacenter valued in excess of $25 million through 2033 https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/07/15/cloud_datacenters_desert_arizona/

#DataCenters are often relatively easy to spot when you can see the roof. Other than that they're just big boxes.

Like Equinix FR9.

‘We’re Compute Cowboys’: Gideon Powell on the Pioneer Spirit Driving Bitcoin Mining - An interview with the CEO of Cholla Inc., an oil & gas exploration company that’s inv... - https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/28/were-compute-cowboys-gideon-powell-on-the-pioneer-spirit-driving-bitcoin-mining/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #consensusmagazine #miningweek2023 #bitcoinmining #datacenters #environment #innovation #interview #bitcoin #oil

#BigTech #Cloud #DataCenters #WaterScarcity #Drought: "We tend to think of the internet as immaterial, but websites exist in the real world as rows of servers that never turn off, filling data centers that need to be cooled to prevent technical failures. Operators such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft use a wide array of systems to do this; the most energy-efficient ones—such as cooling towers—typically evaporate water to chill the air circulating in the buildings.

With drought spreading around the globe, battles are emerging between data center operators and adjacent communities over local water supplies in places such as Chile, Uruguay and parts of the southwestern US. In the northern Netherlands, public outrage erupted last year when a local news outlet reported that a Microsoft Inc. data center complex was consuming more than four times as much water as the company had previously disclosed.

Some of the cooler, wetter hubs in northern Europe, such as Ireland and the Netherlands, have blocked the development of new data centers because of concerns about energy consumption, leading companies to start looking farther afield. Operators of hyperscale data centers, those with more than 5,000 servers, are migrating to places where water is plentiful, such as Norway, but also to drought-prone places like Italy and Spain where energy is cheaper—and where extreme heat is becoming the norm."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers