kay ia 🇵🇸

they/ them

[kay ia 🇵🇸 @damnboyhaon]

woodz vocals like wtf

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

Context matters :

14 million South Africans go to bed hungry every day.

28 million people are dependent on social grants and highest grant is R2400.

40.8 million people live below R2900 a month.

So there can be no job or business activity that should be undermined or dismissed as “crumbs” when people barely survive.

[bribri @ODoylerules_33]

It's Free Palestine until my dying breath

[✰. @swagoszn_]

Farms use more water than data centers? True. But farms feed people. AI data centers just feed endless slop you can’t digest.

[kay ia 🇵🇸 @damnboyhaon]

anyone who sees this as an economic opportunity or benefit for anyone actually living or working in cape town is woefully misinformed.

this will earn millions for those who don’t need it while leaving everyone else without clean drinking water or electricity.

[Ash Müller @Askash]

Cape Town just approved 2 new data centres so big, they’d cover 14 rugby fields. And Capetonians are not happy…

The data centres measure 120 000m2 of development, planned for the King Air Industria site near Cape Town International Airport.

Here's what we know so far:

• The Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal approved the land use application from King David Country Club, the landowner
• The plan rezones 3 erven into one General Industry zone and removes an old limit that kept floor space under 300 000m2
• A small land swap with the City (involving a substation) is part of the deal
• US company Equinix is set to build the facilities
• Estimated needs: up to 174 megawatts of electricity and 4.4 billion litres of water a year for cooling

The application didn't spell out exactly how much water or power the centres will use, or what their greenhouse gas emissions will look like. For a city that came within a hair of Day Zero water droughts and a country that's lived through years of blackouts/loadshedding, you can understand why citizens are concerned.

Some see it as essential digital infrastructure and investment for Cape Town. Others argue that approving a project this size without answers on water and energy demand is putting the cart before the horse, especially with scarce resources already under pressure. Groups opposing the approval say the public deserves those numbers before a project like this gets the go-ahead, not after.

From what I have learned, there are currently 4 large data centres proposed for Cape Town. If approved, they will consume 34% of our electricity.

There is also a 400 megawatt facility planned for Durban, proposed to be the largest in SA. This will consume 25% of Durban's electricity.

Many countries are declining to build data centres, with the USA lobbying against building them. Switzerland is building their alternative to big tech AI called Euria. It runs on renewable energy, and the heat that the servers generate is recycled into 6000 homes in Geneva.

What do you think about the newly approved data centres for Cape Town? Let me know in the comments.

Image: the site where the data centres are to be built. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

[kay ia 🇵🇸 @damnboyhaon]

@Hannes37619569 @Askash Hannes, you are woefully uninformed. You are happy because you are ignorant.

[Mbekezeli @MbekezeliMB]

Muslims have existed in the southern tip of Africa for nearly 400 years.

South Africans have never been Islamaphobic and we must never tolerate malicious campaigns to create division and hatred among us.

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Every American you know would simply die in these conditions. The resiliency of the Palestinian people is remarkable beyond words and their plight should galvanize the world

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You are not the victims.

[kay ia 🇵🇸 @damnboyhaon]

@Cherrylflod @heatedrivalnews “lover of women” but homophobic? stfu

[Jessica Maswanganyi @jessicdutchess_]

Food for thought

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t just hate generative AI slop. I also hate golf, lawns, space tourism, war, monoculture farming, clear-cutting forests, building on floodplains, deep-sea mining, development that destroys habitats, bulldozing ecosystems for endless “growth,” and data centres.

[Rogue Yogi @ZakirahTriveni]

Reminder to the voters!

[𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐩 @geshclip]

— marsha p. johnson within the crowd at a new york gay pride parade, 1982. 🏳️‍🌈🗽💗💋

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?

[Megan Choritz @meganshead]

From now until November I will be reminding whoever I can. DA, ACDP, PA, Action SA, BOSA are all Zionist supporters.

[L🖤🦢 @swAn_girL7]

julian casablancas subway take will forever remain relevant.

[Channel Fanboys @channelfanboys]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[🔴renée🕯️🌕🌳🌈 @rainsister_3]

#CapeTownIsNotTelAviv