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Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.
![Data centers seem to be moving to the front of the line — at least for some equipment — thanks to the jaw-dropping amounts of cash they have on hand. Utilities, meanwhile, often must finance purchases for major pieces of infrastructure.
Harry Sideris, president and CEO of Duke Energy, said at a CERAWeek panel that his company has been doing things they’ve “never dreamed of” to serve data centers.
“We got Caterpillar reciprocating engines on the back of a flatbed — a tractor trailer — to get somebody online three months earlier because they’re making $10 million a day,” Sideris said.
That $10 million a day — that’s for just one data center, he said.
“The cost of doing that is negligible to what they’re making, so doing creative things [to bring them online] is really powerful for them,” Sideris said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiho4b7y43wjubjq7jmkfpulmqtg3zybxyt77zsakpa6m4k2hi2sn4)
Data centers seem to be moving to the front of the line — at least for some equipment — thanks to the jaw-dropping amounts of cash they have on hand. Utilities, meanwhile, often must finance purchases for major pieces of infrastructure. Harry Sideris, president and CEO of Duke Energy, said at a CERAWeek panel that his company has been doing things they’ve “never dreamed of” to serve data centers. “We got Caterpillar reciprocating engines on the back of a flatbed — a tractor trailer — to get somebody online three months earlier because they’re making $10 million a day,” Sideris said. That $10 million a day — that’s for just one data center, he said. “The cost of doing that is negligible to what they’re making, so doing creative things [to bring them online] is really powerful for them,” Sideris said.
I will never understand how anyone can look at a situation like this and think "man, data centres and AI are really going to help solve climate change and incentivse renewable energy"
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So, I put the calculation experiment from my article on this in
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Right answer! Cool!
But it went from 0.2 watt hours to 6.8 watt hours. IE, it goes from 2.5 million times more energy than a calculator to ~62 million times more energy than a calculator
Gilead has a drug that could prevent HIV with just 2 injections a year. MSF said "we'll buy it name your price." Gilead said no.
Let that sink in. Pharmacological innovation without access for those who need it does not accomplish its potential.
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An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.
What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Related: highly recommend this app from Cornell University that allows you to identify birds by recording their songs and calls
"A moratorium on new building new coal mines and on expanding existing ones would allow for a gradual phase out of the industry, which would in turn minimise the social and economic adjustment associated with worldwide commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions"
The US Postal Service is a service, not a business (hence the name). We should want to fund services that help Americans!
It costs us $9B/yr to make sure medications get delivered to seniors in rural areas and the many other benefits USPS provides.
The illegal war in Iran has already cost us $26B!
Me driving the oil to the pick up point
Um, I understood the point of the Hyperloop was to stop the US building high speed trains using reachable technology
Not naming names,,, but I googled ya worth
So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes. 👀
That drop is more than the entire NSF budget.
When Thesis Met Antithesis
You've Got Theory
Silk Stockings (1957), with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. /not serious
Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?
Exclusive: After pulling out of WHO, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build, which will cost about three times as much.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
Bonkers headline: "We're all in the Epstein Files (feat Ross Douthat)"
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
Waiting for the ice storm has that same awful feeling that came before the pandemic reached my area -- knowing shit is going to suck for an extended period and not being able to do anything to change that
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
Requiring people to show their papers when the US doesn't issue citizenship documents is interesting.
A 2-judge panel rejected an emergency appeal by environmental groups to block the Trump administration's permit to Exxon-backed Sable offering no insights as to how they arrived at their conclusion. But the dispute over California's offshore oil is far from over. www.independent.com/2026/01/02/s...
my new years resolution is to hop on a quick call with key stakeholders more often
