🦔Google's plan to partly power a Texas data center through a 933-megawatt natural gas plant has been confirmed after Cleanview researchers uncovered the permit application. The plant would emit 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the entire city of San Francisco. Google pledged carbon-free operations by 2030 in 2020, reported a 48% rise in emissions by 2024, and by 2025 had quietly reframed its climate commitments as climate moonshots, a term it uses for speculative projects that may or may not happen. Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft are making the same pivot.
My Take
The climate commitments these companies made were always going to last exactly as long as they were cheaper than the alternative. Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft all pledged net-zero goals during a period when renewables were becoming cost competitive and climate leadership was good PR. AI changed the economics. The demand is too large, the timelines too short, and gas is available now. So the commitments are being quietly retired or reframed.
Google's head of advanced energy was asked directly last week how natural gas fits with the company's clean energy goals. His answer was we don't have anything to say on that. These were always profit-driven businesses. The climate commitments were real when they were also good business. They are becoming inconvenient and so they are going away.
Hedgie🤗
No US citizens should pay 1 penny in income taxes until EVERY CENT stolen from them is returned, not one penny.
Also, not until every elected official is audited and has to explain how they became multi-millionaires making 175K a year.
🚨BREAKING: 3I/ATLAS TRAJECTORY CHANGED
Today, while everyone is distracted with the lead up to the launch of Artemis II, NASA quietly released new ephemeris data for 3I/ATLAS (JPL 69).
If this data is correct, based on observations from 3/21, 3I/ATLAS successfully executed a slingshot maneuver around Jupiter and is now rapidly approaching the inner solar system, reaching the asteroid belt by 4/20. According to the data, the object - now likely to be classified as artificial - slowed from a velocity of nearly 69km/s relative to Jupiter, to a velocity of ~4.20km/s in less than 24 hours in order to complete the maneuver. There are no physics known to humanity that can explain this.
Asked for comment, Avi Loeb responded with a single word, “Nice.”
Stay curious.
Iran wants to bomb Palantir and I'm supposed to be mad that they would destroy the company that is planning total surveillance of every aspect of our lives?
Wild.
Senators Scott and Mike Lee talk and talk
But Take NO action to remove Thune.
Why not?
They talk for donations but do nothing.
Sorry-Not Sorry
Congress is Broken.
Even Rome fell
Sitting down?
Percentage of US Births to Foreign Born Mothers:
1980: 6.5%
1990: 10.3%
2000: 15.8%
2010: 18.5%
2020: 22.6%
2025: 23.5% projected
Inane.
This is all be design. Immigration is used to destroy the West.
End birthright citizenship and end this.
The entire Earth is $348 trillion in debt.
TO WHO?!?!? EACH OTHER???
If you took all of the money in the world....all of it....that would only be enough to pay back 1/3 of that debt!!
Am I the only one who this makes absolutely no sense to???
The University of Southern California (@USC) has posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Communications Associate
Salary: $59,134
No American citizen was qualified to write tweets and put out press releases for USC.
I do not believe John Thune is a republican. His wife is a Hilary supporter and he must please her. I think he thought in a red state he could get elected easier playing the part of a republican.