High Andes Shiver; Delhi’s Coldest August Day in 14 Years; It Was A Cool July For Europe; The Guardian’s Climate Flip-Flop; + NOAA’s ‘Record Heat’ Built on Missing Data
High Andes Shiver; Delhi’s Coldest August Day in 14 Years; It Was A Cool July For Europe; The Guardian’s Climate Flip-Flop; + NOAA’s ‘Record Heat’ Built on Missing Data
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Tech giants must be allowed to burn more fossil fuels if the U.K. is to become a global AI leader, British ministers were told this summer.
The warning was raised at a meeting in late June between Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and executives from leading U.S. tech firms.
The suggestion — that on-site gas fuel cells could provide an “interim measure” to get around lengthy waits for a connection to the electricity grid — exposes the tensions the U.K. faces as it tries to be both a climate leader and an “AI maker.”
Achieving the latter relies on rapidly increasing the number of energy-intensive data centers for AI on British soil.
But Kyle has said the government is “clear-eyed … on the need to make sure we can power this golden era for British AI through responsible, sustainable energy sources.”
–The big money in & from AI development and usage will likely have the greens taking a backseat.
Record hot forecast here tomorrow. Very dry here not much rain at all. No cold summers here since 2010. Rain forecast here Friday from Kamchatka and Hawaii volcanos from solar activity in solar maximum. .
It was hot here for a couple of weeks. This was in July.
I can reliably state that it gets hot here every July.
Now it’s cooled into the 80s this week.
We’re getting 3 days in the 80’s, then it’s back to the 90’s. I so look forward to autumn and cooler temps, but it’s a bittersweet joy, knowing winter is just around the corner.
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UK’s AI ambitions clash with its climate goals
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-ai-energy-council-climate-change-gas-data-centers/
Tech giants must be allowed to burn more fossil fuels if the U.K. is to become a global AI leader, British ministers were told this summer.
The warning was raised at a meeting in late June between Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and executives from leading U.S. tech firms.
The suggestion — that on-site gas fuel cells could provide an “interim measure” to get around lengthy waits for a connection to the electricity grid — exposes the tensions the U.K. faces as it tries to be both a climate leader and an “AI maker.”
Achieving the latter relies on rapidly increasing the number of energy-intensive data centers for AI on British soil.
But Kyle has said the government is “clear-eyed … on the need to make sure we can power this golden era for British AI through responsible, sustainable energy sources.”
–The big money in & from AI development and usage will likely have the greens taking a backseat.
Record hot forecast here tomorrow. Very dry here not much rain at all. No cold summers here since 2010. Rain forecast here Friday from Kamchatka and Hawaii volcanos from solar activity in solar maximum. .
Methinks the Dirk doth protest too much.
This sounds like a hysterical outburst. I’m sure those cold temps are real and those maps about to spontaneously combust are false.
Average temp here is 78 and then it cools down to 56 at night. Don’t need AC. I don’t have AC or a furnace.
Hot here every summer since 2010
That’s 15 years. Is it 78/56 or is it hot? Get AC and stop yer bellyachin’!
It was hot here for a couple of weeks. This was in July.
I can reliably state that it gets hot here every July.
Now it’s cooled into the 80s this week.
We’re getting 3 days in the 80’s, then it’s back to the 90’s. I so look forward to autumn and cooler temps, but it’s a bittersweet joy, knowing winter is just around the corner.