"How AI Datacenters Eat the World" from High Yield on YouTube. 30-Aug-2025

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HighYield x SemiAnalysis deep-dive into AI Datacenters, Gigawatt Megaclusters and the Hyperscaler race to AGI. How AI Datacenters Eat the World.

Fight against climate change is framed as a series of individual choices, but is dependent on structures build buy political actors higher up in the hierarchy and solidarity in a society. * Example 1: if the train is cheap and on time it would be easier not to fly * Example 2: More hierarchy and inequality leads to less solidarity, but we need solidarity to equally shoulder the pressure of the fight against climate change.

[In other words: neoliberal world society will not work in face of a change planet]

OpenAI's accounting of text generation energy usage

From the 10-Jun-2025 blog post:

People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.

nebraska case study of data sharing for court-involved youth

Radio Teller Systems origin

Starlink reported 49k risk-avoidance maneuvers in 6 months in 2024

Someone should repeat the research that MIT Press funded in 2019 around open infrastructure and tools. It definitely highlighted this shiny object syndrome.

https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/

We do not have to BUILD the internal infrastructure, we ARE the structure

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - third quality - feeling seen - John Churchill

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - second quality - attunement - John Churchill - definition - attunement - John Churchill

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - first quality - internalizing safety generates faith and trust - John Churchill

for - healthy psychological infrastructure - first stage - first deity - first chakra - first stage - safety - attachment - from healthy relationship in childhood - John Churchill

for - wisdom - signs of - permanent change in higher psychological infrastructure - John Churchill

for - quote / insight - difference - between states of consciousness and psychological infrastructure - John Churchill

quote / insight - difference - between states of consciousness and psychological infrastructure - John Churchill - (see below) - States of Consciousness are not structures - I can - huff and puff my breath for an hour or - take some plant medicine or - do a meditation technique that might open up a particular state - Now that state might even stick but the state isn't the same thing as the structure which means - whenever you come back to your structure, - you come back to where you really are - Back to Baseline

for - definition - psychological infrastructure - John Churchill - definition - state of consciousness - John Churchill - comparison - psychological infrastructure vs state of consciousness - John Churchill - quote - states (of consciousness) are cheap, traits ( of psychological infrastructure) are expensive - John Churchill

https://metagov.org/projects/koi-pond

Metagov's KOI (Knowledge Organization Infrastructure) is a graph database that supports relationships between knowledge objects, users, and groups within Metagov. via JM

Extremwettereignisse als Folgen.der globalen Erhitzung haben viele Brücken in den USA beschädigt. Jede vierte der 80.000 Stahlbrücken droht bis 2050 einzubrechen. Vor allem aber gefährdet die hitzebedingte Erosion des Bodens die Stabilität der Pfeiler. Neue Standards für klimaresilienten Brückenbau vergrößern den ohnehin enormen Investitionsbedarf fürdie Erneuerung der US-Infrastruktur. Allein in Colorado düfte das Vier- bis Fünffache der vorhandenen Beträge gebraucht werden. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/climate/climate-change-bridges.html

for - key insight - demographic shift will have major implications on U.S. economy, politics and social infrastructure.

The 710 freeway displaced a large number of people between 1965 and 1974 in West Pasadena.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/an-energy-war-is-being-waged-former-oil-boss-warns-of-price-rises-after-ukraine-infrastructure-attacks

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Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS)

Find this and check it out.

Jun 1, 2023

Abstract

Sometimes buildings just don't look as important as they are. This the case of One Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. At first glance, its a generic office building in downtown. But, that blank facade is hiding one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure within the United States. In this video we visit 1 Wilshire Blvd, explain how it works, and chat with Jimenez Lai who wrote a story about the building which explores its outsized role in our digital lives.

Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass große Teile der US-Ostküste langsam absinken, zusätzlich zu den etwa 4 mm Anstieg des Meeresspiegels pro Jahr. Hauptursachen sind die Verdichtung des Untergrunds, die Entnahme von Wasser und Bergbau. In Deutschland ist in einigen Gebieten eine. ähnliche Entwicklung beobachtet worden. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/klimawandel-grosse-teile-der-us-ostkueste-sinken-langsam-ab-infrastruktur-gefaehrdet/100005206.html

Mit dem Wineyard Wind-Projekt beginnt die erste große Windfarm, die von der Biden-Administration genehmigt wurde, die Stromproduktion. Die USA liegen bei Offshore-Wind hinter Europa zurück. Die Administration hat damit begonnen, eine neue Industrie fast vom Nullpunkt aus zu schaffen, wobei die Hindernisse größer als erwartet sind. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/climate/vineyard-wind-massachusetts.html

Die EU hat seit 1995 1500 Milliarden Euro in der Straßennetz investiert 66% mehr als in das Eisenbahnnetz. Während das Autobahnnetz um 60% ausgebaut wurde, wurde das Eisenbahnnetz um 6,5% reduziert. Die Treibhausgasemissionen des Verkehrs wuchsen zwischen 1995 und 2019 um 15%. Die Zahlen stammen aus einer umfassenden Studie zur Entwicklung der europäischen Verkehrsinfrastruktur vielleicht aber doch Infrastruktur oder, die von Greenpeace in Auftrag gegeben wurde

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/19/news/greenpeace_trasporti_europa_autostrade_treni-415017423/

Studie: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-italy-stateless/2023/09/5989cf9a-analysis_development-of-transport-infrastructure-in-europe_2023.pdf

Dan Allosso in Retrenchment, Day 22 at 2023-08-24 (accessed:: 2023-08-24 08:54:05)

interesting paper about replacing journals with more "modern" scholarly infrastructure

Nov 23, 2022

The internet is the most technically complex system humanity has ever built. Jim Kurose, Professor at UMass Amherst, has been challenged to explain the internet to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.

Ooit in NB bij de weg vragen zei een ouder iemand 'straks rechts de macadamweg op', ipv asfaltweg. Macadam roads, named after MacAdam, are a 18th/19th road building concept of layers of stones in decreasing sizes (the top layer smaller than the average wheel), enabling easier road building and maintenance. Tar was used sometimes to reduce dust,, esp after the intro of cars who had much wider tires than carriage wheels and created more dust. Until the top layer stones and the tar were pre-mixed as asphalt. Tarmac= tarred-macadam

Vgl https://hypothes.is/a/h9luNPx5Ee2ZnxcNCCTotA

Interesting examples of shrinking travel time (and costs) in the UK in the 18th and 19th centuries. These examples fit [[De 19e eeuwse infrastructuren 20080627201224]] [[Sociale effecten van 19e eeuwse infra 20080627201425]] I described at Reboot 10, 2008, where the scale of novel infra allowed a shift of regional perspectives to the aggregation level of a nation state. Stross compares travel times of 18th century roads and 19th century rail to the advent of mass flight in the 20th, which is similar in time/cost. It's also a qualitative shift away from nation to mass and global (but with the nation as go-between and shorthand)

144 Autobahnprojekte mit weniger Umweltprüfungen und Solarzellen. Die Grünen glauben an grünes Wachstum, aber nicht an Klimapolitik.

Will consolidation of email providers point to consolidation of fediverse instances?

This is useful to note. The email protocols are open and one can chose to host their own email server that—at a protocol level—can interoperate with any other. At a practical level, though, there is now service requirements (spam filtering) and policy choices (only accepting mail from known good sending servers) that limit the reach of a new, bespoke mail server.

What would the equivalent of an email spam problem look like on the fediverse?

Infrastructures! we need more narratives about them. Yet ... my experience is that the moment you mention things infrastructural - #interoperability, for instance - eyes of many people glaze, even those technically minded. Solarpunk is a valiant effort to expose infrastructures.

Packet-switched versus circuit-switched

The first networks were packet-switched over circuits. (I remember the 56Kbps circuit modems that were upgraded to T1 lines.) Of course, it has switched now—circuits are emulated over packet switched networks.

Est-ce possible d'avoir plus de détails ?

Huang, P. (2021, April 1). How The CDC Is Battling The Pandemic And Working To Regain Public Trust: Shots—Health News: NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/01/982761755/inside-the-cdcs-battle-to-defeat-the-virus?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Is the next social network focused on sharing rather than advertising?

This sounds like what Ethan Zuckerman proposes: re-imagined social media spaces...communities of people owning the rules for the space they are in, and then having loosely connected spaces interact.

NY and NJ share the same bay, NJ will not join the Oyster program in fear people will eat them and get sick or die. Great post it actually cleaned up our waters where we now have all year visitors including whales, dolphins,tuna, seals all within sight of NYC.

Despite those findings, Morris is optimistic about nature-based living reefs, which, she says, offer a much better economic and environmental investment than artificial counterparts. “You build these hard seawalls to withstand certain storms, certain events, certain future conditions,” she says, “But once these conditions are reached, they are not adaptive. You have to either build another seawall, or build the seawall higher, or repair them if they’re damaged in a storm.”

Digital Public Infrastructure

As an answer to private social spaces.

Which Components of IT Infrastructure do we need for DevOps?

Many companies that want to move to DevOps eventually struggle with the question “What are the Components of IT Infrastructure we need? The use of DevOps stems from the desire to be able to release software more often and faster. The traditional Operations Team (OPS) however will not wholeheartedly embrace this because they would rather benefit from maintaining a stable infrastructure and its maintenance.

This is great to see as so often infrastructure is considered to be only within a purely technical layer.

Also key: A common view of infrastructure as more permanent structures like "roads and bridges", or even digital networks, shapes understanding away from infrastructure as a more dynamic socio-technical system.

Another Angry Woman. (2022, January 1). A reminder that sometimes “living with it” means taking some mitigations, forever, e.g. How in order to live with cholera we make sure our water doesn’t have shit in it by building infrastructure to make sure our water doesn’t have shit in it. [Tweet]. @stavvers. https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/1477362596097536018

French, G. (2021). Impact of Hospital Strain on Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, July 2020–July 2021. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 70. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7046a5

Corona-Liveblog: Gesundheitsämter stellen Kontaktverfolgung wegen Personalmangel ein. (n.d.). FAZ.NET. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/corona-liveticker-gesundheitsaemter-stellen-kontaktverfolgung-ein-17305447.html

Again, the question of energy equity. What about infrastructure in the global south?

One of the main questions we need to address in the energy transition is equity of access to the infrastructure that enables the transition.

The challenge of building an ecosystem of partners who historically have not worked together. There’s also the question of compatibility with the past and future EV fleet.

penerbitan makalah di jurnal open access jelas hanyasebagian kecil saja dari lima pilar kunci: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, science communication, open engagement of societal actors.

Weapons of Affect: The Imperative for Transdisciplinary Information Systems Design

Sett, S., Ribeiro, C. dos S., Prat, C., Haringhuizen, G., Avšič, T., Batten, C., Beato, M. S., Bourhy, H., Caro, A. D., Charrel, R., Coutard, B., Drexler, J. F., Drosten, C., Fooks, A. R., Klempa, B., Koopmans, M., Klimkait, T., Günther, S., Manuguerra, J.-C., … Scholz, A. H. (2021). Access and benefit-sharing by the European Virus Archive in response to COVID-19. The Lancet Microbe, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00211-1

And some knowledge infrastructures (like hypothesis) can be entirely invisible for the majority of people, unless they have installed a specific tool to see the infrastructure.

The Scandinavian countries, for that matter the European Union does not have the monopoly issue with Internet access, which in the U.S. turned into the battle for “net neutrality.” However, a related fight in the U.S., regrading digital inclusion, is much better and successfully fought in the Scandinavian countries by not only effectively establishing awareness, but by enabling relative digital equity in their countries, something, which Biden’s plan is just starting to aim

Students from more advantaged backgrounds may be more likely to attend schools with better digital infrastructure and where teachers have higher levels of digital skills. p. 19

infrastructure, connectivity

Data/bandwidth/access inequality will be among the next big concerns/issues: areas offering high speed reliability will enable residents of those markets opportunity to transact & experience things off limits to "underserved" data markets (solvable via satellite internet?) in ways that pose a severe disadvantage to the latter

Control over the distribution & availability of this technology will be extremely vital (and will hopefully be egalitarian, but... it means $$$ and vested interests will seek to establish gatekeeper roles).

Per the chart below, it appears some markets will remain substantially ahead of others (who knows how the tech will ultimately be deployed), but the rollout of web 3metaverse technology will likely NOT be an egalitarian digital immersion accessible by all people, not even close.

Ideas lead to investing, both need infrastructure. The quality of these three factors are interlinked, defending on each other

"Who does development, operations and maintenance? And how?"

We need more SCOSS-like experimentation. We need initiatives with short iterations of conceptualization and execution, a sort of trial-and-error mentality as we navigate this complex issue. We need research organisations and libraries to create budget lines for open infrastructures. We need funders to start supporting the maintenance of open infrastructures like the eLife Innovation Initiative or the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation.

The Business of Knowing: Bringing about [infra]structural change to knowledge communication