Two things came to my mind recently. 1. If other space inhabitants send spacecraft here, they wouldn’t put any weapons on them for us to reverse engineer. 2. If we have been able to reverse engineer those spacecrafts, they are likely to energetic to carry conventional weapons.
Is this a kind of new measurement with the water consumption? The water flows back, gets purified and into the system again. In this case it does not even get dirty. Should it not be just extra energy consumption, to purify the water, instead of it’s own metric?
Unfortunately the moment the environment and energy are involved, journalism falls apart. "Water consumption" is a meaningless metric if it 's not accompanied by other information - location, energy intensity of water, source of water, where the water goes next. None of this stuff is ever included.
A mill next to a river "consumes" the water that turns its wheel, but then immediately releases it back into the river. That's very different to a cooling tower that turns that water into vapour and releases it into the air. Which is the data centre doing?
Assuming the data centre isn't actively depleting groundwater, the only important number is how much energy it consumes (including for water related activities). Perhaps also power per unit of compute.
In a lot of places in the world, using water for cooling is likely to be more efficient than an equivalent heat pump - so should be celebrated!
Water usage in humid regions is not a problem (and not nearly as efficient for cooling). Is a problem when consumption gets so high that ground water levels change or fossile ground water is used.
Look (literally with eyes) at Ashburn on a humid morning. Above the datacenters providing the "cloud" are literal clouds of condensation from the evaporative coolers, and bigger ones at the local power plants providing the electricity.
More often than not, potable water is drawn up and then literally evaporated.
So from the practical perspective of everybody else who happens to need water from the pipe/aquifer/lake/snowmelt, it's "gone" just as much as if it were dumped into the sea.
Hmm I see. I thought it was tab water running through cooling tubes and back into the sink.
If they actually pump free water from source around their location and release it back how they want to, the points about water consumption are definitely legit.
You can't really re-circulate the same water or else it needs to be cooled again, and dumping it back will destroy wildlife. Fishes especially are very sensitive to temperature swings in the water.
Exactly, there is no official communication that the attack on nuclear capable planes is revenged with a nuclear attack.
What has been very clearly communicated though is that the attack on the personal transport trains has been counted as a terrorist attack and now Russia is about to declare Ukraine leadership as a terrorist organisation.
A change from special operation to a terrorist hunt involves various changes.
Those are just empty names russian tv is making up to amuse less bright part of population. Its just another war, has been since 2014, nothing more and nothing less.
Lets not forget in first hours of 2022 invasion there were numerous hunting squads deployed in Kyiv with explicit orders and training to execute all Ukraine's high command, including Zelensky and all his family, and cause chaos on civilian and military infrastructure. There are numerous videos how those guys failed, were caught and mostly executed since they expected a very different situation on the ground (which is valid even as per Geneva convention, as non-marked combatants behind enemy lines would often face). One of many FSB and GRU's failures.
If we want to talk about terrorism, list of items on russian side is very, very long and new items are added every day. As I said, empty words and all know it. The closer you look at russia these days at all levels the more similarities with nazi Germany you will find. History really keeps repeating itself with sometimes stunning precision.
Rumours say there are already thousands of sleeper drones in the US. Joking aside this is now reality and an adversary doesn’t even need to smuggle them in and can remotely control them from anywhere. This is crazy and I’m very curious how the prevention strategy will look like.
Will be a lot of automated anti-drone weapons installed around US military locations, to start. Think C-RAM but smaller and more precise.
The issue in the future will probably turn to how you can protect & safe guard civilian locations & crowded public spaces from these types of attacks as the tech and range improve.
EW is more effective and cost effective than CRAM, see more of what's going on in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there are some rough numbers for the main reasons FPV drones are lost.
Only in the sense that you could blame anybody in part for anything if you travel through enough indirection. E.g. if I call you cunt for no reason because I'm drunk, and you say I should be more polite and maybe you sound a little annoying when you say it, and in response I stab you, you could say that you're partially at fault for what happened.
If a software engineer in a R&D project is using a AI service to develop the software, does the bill count as company business expense or does it fall under section 174?
"The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else."
Probably similar with sanctions, no protection there.
There really is no way to defend against US government actions against your infra or data so long as your supplier has humans in the US or are a US entity. The entire vertical must exist outside the jurisdiction. This is a Hail Mary by Google to try to convince non US customers they can protect their data. They can’t. This admin has already demonstrated the law does not matter to them. And so, physical and geographic controls are all that remain.
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