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BELÉM (ANP) - De klimaattop in Belém is bijna voorbij, maar in de teksten die tot dusver naar buiten zijn gekomen en de reacties van onderhandelaars daarop zijn geen grote doorbraken te bespeuren. Laat op de avond (lokale tijd) zijn onderhandelaars nog wel met elkaar in gesprek op de COP30. Eurocommissaris Wopke Hoekstra (Klimaat) is bijvoorbeeld gaan praten met de voorzitter van de top, André Corrêa do Lago.
Hoekstra zei eerder op de dag nog tegen Europese bondgenoten dat hij de teksten over het verminderen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen ronduit "zwak" vond. "Dit gaan we onder geen beding accepteren", zei hij over de teksten die op dat moment op tafel lagen. De EU eist concretere stappen om het gebruik van fossiele brandstoffen af te bouwen. In de conceptteksten die de voorzitter vrijdagochtend liet rondgaan, stond daar niets meer over.
Diplomatieke bronnen stellen dat landen als Saudi-Arabië en Rusland nieuwe afspraken op dit gebied blokkeren. "Vanuit Europees perspectief lijkt dit een COP te worden die weinig vooruitgang heeft geboekt op de hoofdlijnen", zegt een EU-bron. Volgens hem wil Brazilië wel voorstellen laten staan over het op termijn verdriedubbelen van het geld voor aanpassingen aan klimaatverandering. Dat budget zou moeten komen uit de totale pot voor klimaatfinanciering aan armere landen, waar in 2035 volgens eerdere afspraken zeker 300 miljard dollar in moet zitten.
CALGARY (ANP) - Femke Kok heeft voor het eerst in haar carrière een wereldbekerwedstrijd op de 1000 meter gewonnen. De 25-jarige Friezin was met een persoonlijk record van 1.12,36 sneller dan landgenoten Isabel Grevelt en Marrit Fledderus. Grevelt pakte zilver met een persoonlijk record van 1.13,14, Fledderus het brons met 1.13,33.
Jutta Leerdam won een week eerder in 1.12,35. De 26-jarige Zuid-Hollandse moest nu genoegen nemen met een vierde plaats met 1.13,34. Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong werd negende met 1.13,74.
Kok verbeterde vijf dagen geleden in Salt Lake City het twaalf jaar oude wereldrecord op de 500 meter in 36,09. Op de 1000 meter eindigde ze toen twee dagen eerder als tweede achter landgenote Jutta Leerdam in een persoonlijk record van 1.12,43. Nu was ze een fractie sneller met een betere slotronde en had ze een grote marge (0,78) op Grevelt, die tweede werd.
"Deze had ik nog niet. Dat is een mooie toevoeging", zei Kok bij de NOS over haar eerste zege in de wereldbeker op de 1000 meter. "Ik zit wel in een positieve flow na vorige week, maar er kwam ook veel op me af. Ik moest er even inkomen, daarom ben ik extra blij dat het is gelukt."
Kok was ook iets sneller dan een week eerder. "Een pr is heel mooi, vooral na vorige week, toen ik geen vlekkeloze rit had. Ik wilde het nu beter uitvoeren."
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Our only Wood Duck in a setting most familiar to regular observers. Medium-sized grazing duck, similar in form to a goose. They generally nest in tree-hollows, close to water.
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports: A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory.
The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files and file formats should be positioned within a user's home directory and the XDG environment variables for accessing those locations. To date Firefox has just positioned all files under ~/.mozilla rather than the likes of ~/.config and ~/.local/share.
The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files and file formats should be positioned within a user's home directory and the XDG environment variables for accessing those locations. To date Firefox has just positioned all files under ~/.mozilla rather than the likes of ~/.config and ~/.local/share.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Malaysia's palm oil giants, long-blamed for razing rainforests, fueling toxic haze and driving orangutans to the brink of extinction, are recasting themselves as unlikely champions in a different, potentially greener race: the quest to lure the world's AI data centers to the Southeast Asian country (source paywalled; alternative source). Palm oil companies are earmarking some of the vast tracts of land they own for industrial parks studded with data centers and solar panels, the latter meant to feed the insatiable energy appetites of the former. The logic is simple: data centers are power and land hogs. By 2035, they could demand at least five gigawatts of electricity in Malaysia -- almost 20% of the country's current generation capacity and roughly enough to power a major city like Miami. Malaysia also needs space to house server farms, and palm oil giants control more land than any other private entity in the country.
The country has been at the heart of a regional data center boom. Last year, it was the fastest-growing data center market in the Asia-Pacific region and roughly 40% of all planned capacity in Southeast Asia is now slated for Malaysia, according to industry consultant DC Byte. Over the past four years, $34 billion in data center investments has poured into the country -- Alphabet's Google committed $2 billion, Microsoft announced a $2.2 billion investment and Amazon is spending $6.2 billion, to name a few. The government aims for 81 data centers by 2035. The rush is partly a spillover from Singapore, where a years-long moratorium on new centers forced operators to look north. Johor, just across the causeway, is now a hive of construction cranes and server farms -- including for firms such as Singapore Telecommunications, Nvidia and ByteDance. But delivering on government promises of renewable power is proving harder.
The strains are already being felt in Malaysia's data center capital. Sedenak Tech Park, one of Johor's flagship sites, is telling potential tenants they'll need to wait until the fourth quarter of 2026 for promised water and power hookups under its second-phase expansion, according to DC Byte. The vacancy rate in Johor's live facilities is just 1.1%, according to real estate consultant Knight Frank. Despite its rapid growth, the market is nowhere near saturation, with six gigawatts of capacity expected to be built out over time, said Knight Frank's head of data centers for Asia Pacific, Fred Fitzalan Howard. That potential bottleneck has incentivized palm oil majors such as SD Guthrie Bhd. to pitch themselves as both landowners and green-power suppliers. The $8.9 billion palm oil producer, SD Guthrie, is the world's largest palm oil planter by acreage, with more than 340,000 hectares in Malaysia. "SD Guthrie is pivoting to solar farms and industrial parks, betting that tech giants hungry for server space will prefer sites with ready access to renewable energy," reports Bloomberg. "The company has reserved 10,000 hectares for such projects over the next decade, starting with clearing old rubber estates and low-yielding palm plots in areas near data center and semiconductor investment hubs."
"The company's calculation is based on this: one megawatt of solar requires about 1.5 hectares. Helmy said SD Guthrie wants one gigawatt in operation within three years, enough to power up to 10 hyperscale data centers used for AI computing. The new business is expected to make up about a third of its profits by the end of the decade."
The country has been at the heart of a regional data center boom. Last year, it was the fastest-growing data center market in the Asia-Pacific region and roughly 40% of all planned capacity in Southeast Asia is now slated for Malaysia, according to industry consultant DC Byte. Over the past four years, $34 billion in data center investments has poured into the country -- Alphabet's Google committed $2 billion, Microsoft announced a $2.2 billion investment and Amazon is spending $6.2 billion, to name a few. The government aims for 81 data centers by 2035. The rush is partly a spillover from Singapore, where a years-long moratorium on new centers forced operators to look north. Johor, just across the causeway, is now a hive of construction cranes and server farms -- including for firms such as Singapore Telecommunications, Nvidia and ByteDance. But delivering on government promises of renewable power is proving harder.
The strains are already being felt in Malaysia's data center capital. Sedenak Tech Park, one of Johor's flagship sites, is telling potential tenants they'll need to wait until the fourth quarter of 2026 for promised water and power hookups under its second-phase expansion, according to DC Byte. The vacancy rate in Johor's live facilities is just 1.1%, according to real estate consultant Knight Frank. Despite its rapid growth, the market is nowhere near saturation, with six gigawatts of capacity expected to be built out over time, said Knight Frank's head of data centers for Asia Pacific, Fred Fitzalan Howard. That potential bottleneck has incentivized palm oil majors such as SD Guthrie Bhd. to pitch themselves as both landowners and green-power suppliers. The $8.9 billion palm oil producer, SD Guthrie, is the world's largest palm oil planter by acreage, with more than 340,000 hectares in Malaysia. "SD Guthrie is pivoting to solar farms and industrial parks, betting that tech giants hungry for server space will prefer sites with ready access to renewable energy," reports Bloomberg. "The company has reserved 10,000 hectares for such projects over the next decade, starting with clearing old rubber estates and low-yielding palm plots in areas near data center and semiconductor investment hubs."
"The company's calculation is based on this: one megawatt of solar requires about 1.5 hectares. Helmy said SD Guthrie wants one gigawatt in operation within three years, enough to power up to 10 hyperscale data centers used for AI computing. The new business is expected to make up about a third of its profits by the end of the decade."
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