#rollingblackouts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rollingblackouts, aggregated by home.social.
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Thanks #Bibi!
Major #OilCompanies reap massive profits as US and Iran fighting drives energy prices higher
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
Updated 11:11 AM EDT, July 31, 2026NEW YORK (AP) — "American oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.
"The conflict, now in its sixth month, halted most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that previously served as a delivery route for a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas. With global supplies constrained, prices for Brent crude, the international standard, soared from about $70 to above $100 a barrel for much of March, April and May, and at one point reached $126.
"The money that oil companies accrued between the beginning of April and the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. Gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers and airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic fuel rationing in #Australia and government office closures in #Nepal and #SriLanka.
" #ExxonMobil on Friday reported that its second quarter profits doubled to $14.53 billion, boosted by record diesel production. The oil giant, based in Spring, Texas, brought in $116.02 billion in revenue, up 42%.
" #Chevron, based in Houston, nearly quadrupled its profits to $12.07 billion and revenue jumped 56% to $70.06 billion.
"Six of #Europe’s largest oil companies posted combined first-quarter profits of $22 billion, more than 40% higher than last year.
" 'There are constituencies around the world who are having a very good crisis, and the oil producers are one of them,' said Patrick Galey, #FossilFuels lead at #GlobalWitness, a nonprofit organization that investigates environmental issues. 'When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with #RollingBlackouts, with #ElectricityCurbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #FoodQueues, or the disruption to fertilizers and the potential impact that that has on food prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying.' "
Source:
https://apnews.com/article/oil-companies-profits-exxon-chevron-9375fbf8f6f40426f7428e07d54000c7#USPol #WorldPol #USWarOnIran #EndlessWar #TrumpsWar #BibisWar #BibiIsAWarCriminal #TrumpIsAWarCriminal #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateCriminals #CorporateColonialism
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This is an interesting new #OpenAccess paper looking at the intersection of energy, development, neighborhood race and class in #SouthAfrica.
They find that #Solar panel installation is by far more common in wealthy and especially white neighborhoods, and that the drop in #NighttimeLight radiance observed from #VIIRS_DNB is lowest in these neighborhoods.
They suggest that solar adoption may reduce the impact of #LoadShedding (i.e. #RollingBlackouts).
I see a few issues with their methodology, but it's nevertheless so interesting to see all these aspects combined with day and nighttime #RemoteSensing.
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#Ireland embraced #DataCenters that the #AI boom needs. Now they’re consuming too much of its energy
By MATT O’BRIEN
December 19, 2024CLONDALKIN, Ireland (AP) — "Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of #Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
"Now, a country that made itself a computing factory for #Amazon, #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft and #TikTok is wondering whether it was all worth it as tech giants look around the world to build even more data centers to fuel the next wave of #ArtificialIntelligence.
"Fears of #RollingBlackouts led Ireland’s grid operator to halt new data centers near Dublin until 2028. These huge buildings and their powerful computers last year consumed 21% of the nation’s electricity, according to official records. No other country has reported a higher burden to the International Energy Agency.
"Not only that, but Ireland is still heavily reliant on burning #FossilFuels to generate electricity, despite a growing number of wind farms sprouting across the countryside. Further data center expansion threatens Ireland’s goals to sharply cut planet-warming emissions.
"Ireland is a 'microcosm of what many countries could be facing over the next decade, particularly with the growth of AI,' said energy researcher Paul Deane of University College Cork."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-centers-ireland-6c0d63cbda3df740cd9bf2829ad62058 -
" “It cannot be stressed enough that this is an exceptionally dangerous and lethal situation,” wrote the National Weather Service.
Temperatures surpassing 100 to 120 will be a daily occurrence over most of the state, while warm nighttime lows offer minimal relief.
The Weather Service has warned that “numerous heat related fatalities and #RollingBlackouts” are possible."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/03/california-heat-wave-maps-forecast-analysis/
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Texas Faces Rolling Blackouts This Winter
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-power-outages-extreme-weather-winter-1846777
#TexasBlackouts #WinterPowerOutages #ExtremeWeather #TexasEnergyCrisis #RollingBlackouts #WinterEmergency #Politics #News
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Tennessee Mayor John Cooper has asked the Tennessee Titans to postpone their game Saturday afternoon amid electricity concerns across the state.
#TVA #EnergyMastodon #Titans #RollingBlackouts #Blackouts #Grid #BombCyclone
https://www.wsmv.com/2022/12/24/titans-delay-game-amid-rolling-blackout-concerns/
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Ever wonder how much #electricity the #Triton #HPC cluster uses, or how we/you can reduce that, or if power cuts will effect it? A user asked us, so we wrote up a #sustainability statement:
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/about/sustainability/In short:
- The cluster is more efficient than your computer (and idles less)
- Come to us and we can help make your code or workflow more efficient #SciCompGarage
- #RollingBlackouts shouldn't affect Triton - so even more reason to use it
- We do think about this stuff
