20 miles northwest of our nation's capital
“All these [expensive] datacenters and all the money being funneled into it; what’s the ‘end game’ here?” — Answering the question NO ONE has been able to answer: What is AI for? The current explanation sounds great and looks good on paper, but when you look at the data it simply doesn’t add up, and … Read more
Loudoun County, Virginia government has “almost matched the operating budget annually [via the annual taxation take] just in the [taxation take] that they’re bringing in from [taxing] datacenters.” (Loudoun County has lowered its real-estate tax rate every year over the last decade. Meanwhile, every other concern and reason decries the foolhardy mistake of building datacenters … Read more
Land-grab by extremely pollutive presence. Wasn’t the propaganda just 2 years ago “power grid can’t handle all the electric cars!” Meanwhile they’re building data centers that can power a whole city, example Utah. as a person who moved from ‘data center alley’ in Northern Virginia, I can say that the Georgia Power lady was lying … Read more
As has done ALLLLL technology, AI will also bubble and burst and cause much pain and suffering. Let’s learn from our many, many past collective mistakes and not once again harm ourselves and, more lastingly, harm our environment. An old, old, story. It has been known, contrary to politicians, and chambers of commerce, for two … Read more
Regarding what some have called the “sell-out” that is otherwise known as 1999 Maryland electric deregulation / generation divestiture, here’s the religious/Catholic/Vatican/Jesuit angle of the four top Maryland power figures who were in-charge / most influential at that time, in those machinations — Short finding All four had Catholic affiliation or Catholic institutional ties. Easily … Read more
“”Datacenter Dangers #13 – Datacenter Hell in Maryland’s Agricultural Preserve – SkyNet, and the “New LAIy Lines””One Datacenter proposed for Dickerson, Maryland is admittedly gauged to consume 75% of the county’s current power — so that’s a near-doubling of power consumption of the entire county; however, this power is to be concentrated in a land … Read more
A multi-part, fully-sourced Series deeply exploring the Many Serious Ill-Effects of Datacenters. Newest first. #33 #32 #31 #30 #29 #28 #27 #26 #25 #24 #23 #22 #21 #20 #19 #18 #17 #16 #15 #14 #13 #12 #11 #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 Directly Related
Milham and Dirty Electricity Samuel Milham’s definition of “dirty electricity” is broader than classic IEEE 519 harmonics. He focuses on: His 2013 paper states: “Dirty electricity … is high-frequency voltage transients riding along the 50 or 60 Hz electricity provided by electric utilities.” Milham and Stetzer associated dirty electricity with: and proposed that electrical pollution … Read more
IEEE 519 is essentially the electric-grid equivalent of a noise ordinance, but it only applies to one of the three known kinds of noise pollution caused by datacenters. Here is an examination of the IEEE519. IEEE 519 is essentially the electric-grid equivalent of a noise ordinance. Instead of loud music disturbing your neighbors, it addresses … Read more
