Post #3217146
2026-05-25 14:55 UTC
@servus@social.servus.at
Then @l03s@post.lurk.org talked about the big sales pitches behind data centers in the NL, such as using excess heat of data centers to grow peppers, with catchy lines such as “when you think you're working on your computer, you're actually growing peppers 🌶 “ HA! @livliilvil@waag.social then talked about how these data centers are popping up like mushrooms and gave us case studies of 5 different data centers. (He also showed zuckerberg who is showing off building a data center the size of manhattan 🙄) 3/7
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@dasha@post.lurk.org 2026-05-25 15:03
@servus@social.servus.at I’m the afternoon @marieverdeil@post.lurk.org and i ran an updated version of our workshop What’s a Watt, where we invited the participants to engage in various forms of data visualization of our energy consumption and were very happy to have @livliilvil@waag.social in the workshop to measure the energy consumption of the newest google data center compared to the consumption of a Tesla 🔋🚗 And in the evening we went to the exhibition opening at BB15 which featured 2 wonderful works, one of which from @jwn@tldr.nettime.org 4/7