Datacenter cooling uses so much water because it is "evaporative cooling"-- it is actually boiling water. transition water to steam takes energy-- energy from the machines. This can use up alot of fresh water (it is), or... it could desalinate water at a huge scale. boiling seawater allows fresh water to be separated from salt. so we could have datacenters boil seawater to create fresh water to water plants. why not? (am I wrong about this?) 1/2

ratio of male to female of domesticated species 0.36%. for chickens (always wanted to know, and chatGPT makes it so easy!) Chickens: The USDA’s 2022 Census (“Poultry & Eggs Highlights”) reported: Chickens, broilers: ~ 1,737.7 million head. Chickens, layers: ~ 388.5 million head. Chickens, roosters: ~ 7.7 million head. 5.4% Cows Cows (beef + milk cows that have calved): 37.2 million head Bulls (weighing 500 lbs and over): 2.01 million head 1/2

"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons" Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take: "remake the connective tissue—technical, legal, and economic—that made the web an engine for learning and civic life. Keep the network interoperable. Safeguard libraries. Restore competition. If the open web can still be a place where truth moves farther and faster than lies, the next chapter can still be written with those principles in mind."

An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons