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New petition towards the Dutch government by @fossielvrij@climatejustice.global with two simple demands:
Sign here: https://fossielvrij.nl/stop-datacenters/
RE: @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
“Ideology of scaling” is a super useful framework for the critical analysis of hyperscale data centre expansion processes (it’s literally entailed in the name of the structure!)
One week to go until Cables of Resistance in Berlin!
Join my session on Saturday morning to get insights into @papertrail’s Cloud Factories research and collaboratively work on some zines that dream about non-extractivist designations for landscapes threatened by data centre construction.
Important: The conference is fully sold out. So this post is intended for those who are already confirmed as participants or speakers
Favourite post #AMRO26 activity: Counting hares from the train window. The tally currently stands at 14 (and 3 pheasants and 1 deer).
New data by CBS, the Dutch statistics agency, suggest that data centres consumed 4,6 % of the Netherlands’ electricity in 2024. In 2017, data centre consumption amounted to just 1,5 % of all electricity supplied.
In the accompanying media coverage (https://nos.nl/artikel/2594650-ongeveer-45-datacenters-gebruiken-net-zo-veel-stroom-als-1-9-miljoen-woningen), @roeldobbe@akademienl.social hints that a further increase (without expansion of supply) may lead to higher energy bills for Dutch households in the future.