Uh, oh. Cramer thinks more data centers is a bad thing. Time to go all in on data centers.
"Jim Cramer expressed his frustration over Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL)'s plans to potentially add another 1,000 to 2,000 data centers on top of its existing 162. He raised concerns about the environmental impact of such expansion, noting that data centers currently consume about 4% of the world's energy.
'What drives me crazy is that Oracle has 162 data centers and is considering adding another 1,000 or 2,000. What does that do to the planet? If you think about it, data centers use about 4% of all energy today, and if that doubles to 8%, we need to control the 30% that's wasted.'"
Recorded my final @The Progressive Bitcoiner interview with @Trey Walsh earlier today. Bittersweet to say the least but I finished the conversation feeling hopeful about the future of our left movement within bitcoin and I think Trey likely brought new people into the space who will pick up the torch that he carried after Mark stepped down.
The struggle continues!
Pretty sure that doing a PhD adversely affected my mental health. But...it was really a result of the inherent power imbalance between PhD advisor and advisee. There are ways to limit that without limiting the freedom of the advisor, but departments seem unwilling to build on more sustainable models.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanwai/2024/09/19/can-pursuing-a-phd-impact-mental-health/
I admit I am a degrowther but I am starting to think that what I consider degrowth is maybe not what many other degrowthers see it to mean. There is a lot of ignorance around energy and technology the is pervasive in aspects of the degrowth/climate movement that is also mixed with doomer vibes.
1) As Baidrillard pointed out, we cannot escape capitalism as thus we cannot escape the technological advances that we have created as a result. But what we can do, imo, is find the communist, find the anarchist, elements that exist simultaneously in contradiction and build on these aspects to find a way out. The whole concept of the falling rate of profit (which Kliman argues is temporal and thus why many misunderstand it including Marxists) is one that can be also interpreted through creative destruction. When taken to its limit, we can see where a post-work, degrowth world could actually arise.
I say this with respect, but it angers me to see rejection rather than embrace of the full spectrum of possibilities as the only way forward for so many of my colleagues in the climate movement.
Lastly, Israel proved you can’t escape through low-fi tech to avoid surveillance and attacks. So QED.
Happy for Trey, but this is sad news for me. I still think we need more content that takes a different perspective on bitcoin and which also challenges existing mythologies around bitcoin that exist within and outside of the bitcoin community. Honored to be the last episode, let’s make this a memorable one, Trey. View quoted note →
"Instead, she’ll pursue her campaign against Riot from afar—and widen her scope. She has joined the National Coalition Against Cryptomining, a protest group that backs a nationwide ban on crypto mining. “When we leave things up to each state, it’s like playing whack-a-mole,” says Sawicky. 'We need a big federal law.'"
Wow, I did not know there was a national coalition against bitcoin mining...
