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Russian president damns western support that has allowed Ukraine to hold out and asks for talks with Gerhard Schröder in remarks after diminished Victory Day parade
Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.
“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Extra demand is expected from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois "where demands driven by data centers are projected to grow substantially by 2036," they explain. But that means that Maryland customers "are subsidizing data center-driven transmission buildout by virtue of geographic proximity..." Tom's Hardware explains:
That means an extra $823 million for residential (approx. $345 per customer), $146 million for commercial (approx. $673 per customer), and $629 million for industrial customers (approx. $15,074 per customer)... "Maryland customers have neither caused the need for these billions in new transmission projects nor will they meaningfully benefit from them," [according to Maryland People's Counsel David S. Lapp]....
This is one of the biggest reasons why many AI hyperscalers are facing pushback from the communities where they intend to place their data centers. At the moment, around 69 jurisdictions have passed some sort of moratorium on projects like these, and a survey has shown that nearly half of Americans do not want a data center in their neighborhood. Debates around these projects are passionate, with a few cases turning violent and even resulting in shootings (thankfully, without any casualties), especially as many feel that the construction of these power-hungry assets is threatening their lifestyles and quality of life.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader noshellswill for sharing the news.
Extra demand is expected from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois "where demands driven by data centers are projected to grow substantially by 2036," they explain. But that means that Maryland customers "are subsidizing data center-driven transmission buildout by virtue of geographic proximity..." Tom's Hardware explains:
That means an extra $823 million for residential (approx. $345 per customer), $146 million for commercial (approx. $673 per customer), and $629 million for industrial customers (approx. $15,074 per customer)... "Maryland customers have neither caused the need for these billions in new transmission projects nor will they meaningfully benefit from them," [according to Maryland People's Counsel David S. Lapp]....
This is one of the biggest reasons why many AI hyperscalers are facing pushback from the communities where they intend to place their data centers. At the moment, around 69 jurisdictions have passed some sort of moratorium on projects like these, and a survey has shown that nearly half of Americans do not want a data center in their neighborhood. Debates around these projects are passionate, with a few cases turning violent and even resulting in shootings (thankfully, without any casualties), especially as many feel that the construction of these power-hungry assets is threatening their lifestyles and quality of life.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader noshellswill for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
TORONTO (ANP/DPA) - Duitsland en Canada hebben zaterdag besproken hoe ze de samenwerking kunnen verdiepen. Dat zei de Duitse minister van Financiën Lars Klingbeil tijdens een conferentie in de Canadese stad Toronto.
Volgens hem kan de samenwerking worden versterkt op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie, energie, kritische grondstoffen en defensie.
Ook wil Duitsland graag dat Canada in Duitsland gebouwde onderzeeërs koopt. Dat heeft Klingbeil nogmaals bij de Canadezen onder de aandacht gebracht. Duitsland wil graag dat Canada zich aansluit bij een Duits-Noors partnerschap voor onderzeeërs.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio en gezant Steve Witkoff hebben de Qatarese premier Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani zaterdag in Miami gesproken over Iran. Dat meldt het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, nadat eerder de nieuwssite Axios al over de ontmoeting had bericht.
Qatar speelt een sleutelrol in de onderhandelingen tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran om de oorlog te beëindigen. Pakistan is de officiële bemiddelaar, maar Qatar heeft achter de schermen een belangrijke rol gespeeld.
Tijdens de ontmoeting is ook gesproken over Amerikaanse steun aan de Qatarese strijdkrachten en het belang om stabiliteit en veiligheid in het Midden-Oosten te vergroten, aldus het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.
Samen met Israël vielen de Verenigde Staten Iran eind februari aan. Iran reageerde onder andere met de blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz. De VS willen nu een vredesakkoord sluiten en de zeestraat heropenen.