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“Arrest Him!” The Moment Police Handcuffed A Farmer For Going 5 Seconds Over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting

When bodycam footage from a February city council meeting in Claremore, Oklahoma, surfaced online, it didn't show a brawl or a threat. It showed a man asking if he could hand over documents. Then an officer's voice, flat and final: "Arrest him." Darren Blanchard had committed the offense of speaking slightly past a three-minute public-comment timer — at a meeting about a 270-to-300-acre data center campus proposed for his community. What a trespass charge over a few extra seconds reveals about how towns handle dissent when big infrastructure money arrives is worth your attention.

u/EchoOfOppenheimer — 3 days ago
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AI data centers do not need to use water like they do, there are alternatives

Type of cooling:

Air cooling:
Heat-sinks, Passive air cooling, Active air cooling,

Heat conduction methods:
Heat pipes and vapor chambers, Liquid cooling, Pumped thermosiphon, Chip-integrated

Heat conduction targets:
Liquid nitrogen, Liquid helium, Evaporative tower

Refrigeration:
Peltier (thermoelectric) cooling, Vapor compression, or Both

Liquid immersion cooling

Other: Waste heat reduction
Part selection, Soft cooling, Undervolting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cooling

Video Source: itskaylajaiden

u/Confident_Salt_8108 — 3 days ago
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Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions. By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

unu.edu
u/EchoOfOppenheimer — 3 days ago
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Datacentres are a ticking timebomb. We must make sure AI’s benefits outweigh the costs – They suck up energy and water, and blast out heat. Just who is better off from all this investment – aside from tech bros?

theguardian.com
u/EchoOfOppenheimer — 6 days ago
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Lil edit I recently put together from CO Springs!😅🤷🏼‍♂️✊️

For those who've been to Colorado Springs before, the main issue about project taurus is it's close proximity to residential zones and our precious Garden of the Gods.

u/llucero102 — 3 days ago