#Utilities

2025-06-18

"Who asked for this? Who voted for this? Who will resist?"

Have fun paying for muskrat and google and bezo's energy and water usage. You know they're not going to. And if there's not enough water for you and them? Guess who is going without! I'll give you a hint - it's not them.

#Electricity #AI #Community #Utilities #Sustainability #Climate #Affordability #Water

AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now
Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by The Tyee
June 18, 2025

The colossal energy demands of artificial intelligence have earth-shaking implications for everyone. Already rising steeply, they are set to accelerate at a dizzying pace as various global powers race to be the first to achieve supreme intelligence over everything.

Teaser image credit: Datacenter Equinix AM3 (low-rise) en AM4 (high-rise) in Amsterdam design by Benthem Crouwel architects, completed in 2017. By Choinowski – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146691474

"Let’s be clear about what we are doing here. We are using lakes of clean water, reviving coal-powered stations, gulping methane, raising electrical prices, squandering agricultural land and cannibalizing electrical supplies to ask inane questions and make videos about stupid shit."
Kathy BrysonKathyBryson
2025-06-18

would you pay $1700 a month for an apartment with a garden, library, and reduced electric?
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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the crisis and ? buff.ly/iTMJnXv

Newsrampnewsramp
2025-06-18

UGI Utilities launching critical infrastructure upgrade on Berner Avenue in Hazleton, improving gas main and potentially enabling natural gas conversions for local residents and businesses

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2025-06-17

WA's biggest gas generator on edge of 'insolvency' after 'bailout' rejected
By Daniel Mercer

In the latest sign of stress for Western Australia's biggest power grid, its most important gas plant has been verging on insolvency. Critics say it is a further blow to the state's energy transition.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/new

#ElectricityProductionandDistribution #Utilities #OilandGas #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #GreenhouseGases #EnvironmentalPolicy #DanielMercer

2025-06-17

Federal government to change power price rules to push costs lower
By Tom Lowrey

The federal energy minister will announce changes to how benchmark power prices are set, aimed at cutting back how much energy retailers can hit consumers to cover costs like advertising, on Wednesday.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/bow

#Utilities #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #EnergyMarkets #EnergyIndustry #TomLowrey

Newsrampnewsramp
2025-06-16

UGI Utilities launching extensive infrastructure upgrade in Union Township, improving gas services and road networks across multiple streets. Construction begins June 23, expected completion early September.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2025-06-15

Foreign investors have returned to net buying in South Korea’s stock market, but Middle East tensions could shift this trend; experts highlight shipbuilding and utilities as sectors to watch amid market volatility.

en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

2025-06-14

Australia is set to embrace energy from waste, but should it?
By Norman Hermant

Energy from waste is common around the world, and there are almost a dozen plants now in operation or being proposed across Australia — but with the opportunity comes other problems.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/aus

#AlternativeEnergy #RecyclingandWasteManagement #Environment #EnvironmentalImpact #Utilities #EnvironmentalManagement #Pollution #NormanHermant

Super Grover does mewtual aidsupergrover@mastodon.art
2025-06-14
a pair of perler beaded earrings of a 4-petaled flower design made by kiamichi in pink and purple with bright blue and yellow centers
2025-06-12

Arthur does it again!

A great find for video editors everywhere:). Win/Mac/Linux

#realvideoenhancer is a free #opensource #crossplatform #foss tool for slowing down video as well as upscaling.

tilvids.com/videos/watch/3860a

#peertube #video #slowmo #utilities #arthurpizza #tilvids

github.com/TNTwise/REAL-Video-

2025-06-12

F*ck me my water bill has gone up by 37.4% in the last 14 months. How did that happen? And I don’t get to switch providers, I just have to suck it up. WTaF?
#water #utilities #publicutilities

2025-06-10

Power pain sends businesses to the wall, prompting renewables questions
By Daniel Mercer and Tyne Logan

Businesses are reporting electricity price hikes of up to 50 per cent or more, prompting warnings some could be sent to the wall as the state once labelled an energy paradise shows signs of sliding towards crisis.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-11/pow

#EnergyPolicy #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #EnergyMarkets #Coal #OilandGas #GreenhouseGases #ClimateChange #Utilities #DanielMercer #TyneLogan

Newsrampnewsramp
2025-06-09

UGI Utilities launching major gas infrastructure upgrade in Hazleton, replacing mains on West Diamond and Hemlock Streets. Project runs June-October, offering conversion opportunities for local residents and businesses.

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MacintoshGarden Feedmacgarden@bitbang.social
2025-06-09

Printopia

macintoshgarden.org/apps/print

Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to any capable iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Printopia will also add virtual printers, allowing you to save print-outs to your Mac and send to apps.

#macgarden #utilities #2016 #decisivetacticsecomm

2025-06-09

'Buy a generator', power provider tells WA hotel angry at blackouts
By Andrew Chounding

The owners of Bremer Bay Resort say Western Power told them purchasing a diesel generator was the only way to avoid the outages plaguing the small community.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/pow

#EnergyPolicy #TourismandLeisureIndustry #HospitalityIndustry #Utilities #RegionalCommunities #AndrewChounding

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