1) As a follow-up to Katie Singer’s article in last night’s update about energy, technology, etc.
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Data Centers Are Booming
“… models are trained on petabytes (a word I just learned) of data to generate new content based on patterns and information they have learned to recognize and mimic. All of this learning and inference requires a lot more computing power than quaint Google searches of yesteryear. Alphabet’s John Hennessy estimates that my AI-supported art project required 10 times the computing costs of a standard internet image search….
What will happen to global energy use/GHG emissions as AI computing demand growth is compounded across 5.3 billion internet users? The range of opinions on this topic is pretty astounding. Some see climate destruction in the rise of AI. Others see a smoother clean energy transition.”
https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/data-centers-are-booming/
2) A recent decision in Norway recognized health effects from microwave transmitters and Dirty Electricity. Unfortunately, a further step of having this recognized by the EU Court of Human Rights was declined. Experts and science were ignored — much as they have been in Canada and the USA.
Smart” utility meters: The European Human Rights Court rejected the Norwegian complaint
“In short, the plaintiffs’ health objections against having new utility meters installed, needed to be “clearly unfounded” for them not to win their case. However, the District Court refused the use of expert co-judges, neglected the testimonies given by international experts in court and simply accepted the National Radiation Protection Agency’s view…
However, the judicial process also brought some positive results: The Appeal Court’s decision is now applicable law in Norway. It states unequivocally the right to be exempted for health reasons both from the “smart” meter’s microwave transmitters as well as from “dirty electricity” produced from it, provided a doctor’s certificate states that the patient’s symptoms conform with those attributed to “what is in common language termed ‘electro-hypersensitivity’”
Sharon Noble, Director, Citizens for Safer Tech
“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” Isaac Newton
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