New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries ups

Unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle also recovered owing to record heat and drought conditions Record-low water levels in the Danube have exposed remnants of Europe’s Nazi past, with dozens of second world war warships emerging from the riverbed during an intense drought. In the middle of the river on the Serbian and Romanian border, a broken-up hull was visible on a sandbank that is normally underwater. Other vessels were partly submerged, some still believed to be laden with weapo...

By Oliver Holmes

Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears

Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.

By Scott Maucione

The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can Canada build them fast enough?

The hand-built planes are unmatched in the firefighting aircraft market and are built to last for decades. Europe wants more of them than ever.

Germany news: Trucking rules eased as rivers run low

Several states will let trucks use motorways on Sundays and holidays as freight shipping is hampered by low water levels. The body of a German sailor missing for days has been found in the southern Aegean. DW has more.

Amazon to finance huge US gas plant for data centres

Amazon has confirmed it is financing a massive, private gas power plant in Texas that could become the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. It is the latest example of tech giants going off the grid to get their AI operations online faster. The news was first reported by market intelligence company Cleanview, which reviewed satellite imagery to connect three data centre construction permits filed this week by Amazon to the gas plant, which is being developed...

By Agence France-Presse

Contra Sen. Wyden, Data Centers Are The Tax Gift That Keeps On Giving

National taxation of data centers is a solution in search of a problem, one that would install even more power in a national government that’s already too big.

By John Tamny, Contributor

The AI boom is creating data center jobs that pay more

Workers outside a data center during construction in Slough, UK Bloomberg/Getty Images A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. New research from Indeed shows that some of the fastest-growing tech jobs are now electricians, installers, maintenance workers, and engineers building the data centers that power AI. Data center job postings have more than doubled over the past two years, even as overall US job...

Ha megmutatjuk Christopher Nolannek a kiszáradt Dunát, forgatna belőle blockbustert? – (Hűs) Programok augusztus 21-ig

What a time to be alive!

By balkanyi.nora@gmail.com (Balkányi Nóra)

The AI boom is creating jobs far from Silicon Valley: Chart of the Day

AI used to create never-before-seen synthetic viruses that can multiply faster than natural ones

Urgent biosafety concerns raised over future of technology

By Benedict Smith

Before AI hits the grid

PAKISTAN’S announcement that it would allocate 2,000 megawatts of electricity for Bitcoin mining and AI data centres has triggered a predictable debate: can the country afford to supply that much power? It is an important question, but not the most useful one. Bitcoin mining, AI training and real-time digital services do not exactly place identical demands on the electricity system. Pakistan’s electricity challenge is about more than the amount of generation capacity available. It is about wh...

By none@none.com (Mahwish Khan)

Water level beneath Olongapo bridge reaches critical level

OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines —The water level beneath Sta. Rita Bridge in this city reached the critical level on Saturday evening (Aug. 8) as rains brought by the southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” continued to affect the city. As of 6:10 p.m., the water level beneath Sta. Rita Bridge reached 2.5 meters, up from 2.3 meters recorded

By cbuban

What the data is really saying

Should 10,000 complaints over errors on the national health app Mor Prom, and an embarrassing leak of vehicle registration data — one that let loose information on the prime minister himself — be simply brushed off as technological hiccups?

Texas Energy Giant Oncor Supports Governor's Data Center Freeze

Texas Energy Giant Oncor Supports Governor's Data Center Freeze By Emma Penrod of UtilityDive.com About 44 GW of large load projects slated for Oncor’s service territory qualified for ERCOT’s new “Batch Zero” interconnection process for large loads, company executives told analysts during a Thursday earnings call. But the timeline for that process is uncertain following an order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that paused new data center interconnection approvals pending a state-wide ...

By Tyler Durden

Remains of Poles massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in WWII exhumed in Ukraine

Around half of the remains belonged to children, and most show signs of brutal deaths, including skulls pierced with farming tools.

By Daniel Tilles

Former TOR MD conviction: Ghana, US working to bring others to book over power plant bribery scheme – Deputy AG

Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem-Sai says his office is working with authorities in the United States to pursue other individuals implicated in a bribery scheme linked to a power plant development contract between a Turkish energy company and the Government of Ghana.

By Kenneth Darko