traymca 💙

Avid reader, fledgling writer, crazy corvid fan, owned by 2 ETTs. Tweets own views, retweets only of that tweet.
Trying a digital detox for March 2026

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An Ohio fire department is warning that AI data centers are quickly becoming a full-time job for first responders.

In Jerome Township, northwest of Columbus, emergency crews have been called to two Amazon data centers a staggering 84 times in just four years. Since the first facility opened in 2021, firefighters have responded to dozens of incidents, averaging about two calls per month.

Then came the major fire.

In April, a two-alarm blaze at one of the sites caused more than $50 million in damage and tied up emergency crews for over 24 hours.

Local officials aren’t just worried about the fires themselves. They’re concerned that precious emergency resources are being repeatedly diverted to these massive industrial complexes, all at taxpayer expense.

Data centers are sprouting up across America as tech companies scramble to build the massive infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence. These facilities house thousands of servers that run nonstop, consuming vast amounts of electricity and generating intense heat that requires constant cooling.

While data center fires remain relatively rare, they can be exceptionally challenging to fight. The buildings are packed with electrical systems, battery backups, complex cooling infrastructure, and high-security zones that often hinder emergency access.

Ohio has emerged as one of the nation’s fastest-growing data center hubs, with more than 170 facilities already operating and many more under construction or in planning.

This growth mirrors a global explosion in hyperscale data centers, driven by the skyrocketing demand for AI computing power. Every response, AI image, or large language model ultimately relies on physical servers somewhere in the world.

While these facilities bring jobs and economic investment, many communities are feeling the strain, on power grids, water supplies, roads, and now, local emergency services.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

“We are now 716 days into a genocide and yet Israel are allowed to participate in footfall tournaments.
WHY ARE THERE DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!”
-Eric Cantona

[Anthony Avon .Art @AnthonyAvonArt]

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.

▪️No net zero for the data centres.

▪️Net zero enforced on us plebs (probably to enable the data centres to burn more energy).

The whole thing is a scam.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons.

North Korea and Israel.

One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide.

It isn't North Korea.

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

An introverts dream life:

- a loving partner who understands their need for alone time
- living in a cozy cabin by nature
- having a personal library filled with books
- working from home
- minimal social obligations

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Cllr Tanisha Bramwell @tanishabramwell]

In Finland school meals are free for all children until the age of 16.

In Japan, only qualified nutritionists are allowed to prepare and serve school meals.

Meanwhile in the UK, we’re arguing about whether kids deserve to be fed at all.

FREE school meals for all children!

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Governments tell us to cut eating red meat to ‘save the planet’ while they ram through hundreds of massive data centres that consume vast amounts of energy and water…

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

It’s good to see local and national media giving this story a lot of coverage this week.

Residents' backlash over massive data centre planned next to Fife village:

A beautiful rural area next to Auchtertool in Fife is being earmarked for a gigantic 61-acre, AI data centre that is bigger than the neighbouring village. The 600MW AI data centre would be one of the world’s biggest.

It is estimated that the Auchtertool data centre when built, will use in a year the same energy as 1.34 million households – or 53% of Scottish households. This is an extraordinary amount of energy

Local residents are campaigning against this. Also, Fife Council haven’t published an environmental impact assessment.

No one voted for this monstrosity.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media tougher to find and use.
They ditched the expandable storage in phones.
They steered us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online the norm.
They turned unlimited internet into a necessity.
Then, they slowly upped the price on everything.

Ownership quietly became renting.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A team at Oxford built a search engine for every drug the NHS prescribes, and it has quietly saved the health service millions.

It's called OpenPrescribing.

The NHS publishes its full prescribing dataset every month. It's 700 million rows of raw numbers nobody could actually read. So Oxford built a tool that turns it into live charts in seconds.

You type a drug name. It shows you which practices over-prescribe it, which regions are slow to follow new guidelines, and where the money is being wasted.

→ Search any drug across any GP practice in England
→ Find safety and cost outliers instantly
→ 70+ ready-made quality measures
→ Updates monthly, automatically
→ Free, open source, MIT licensed

20,000 people use it every month. Doctors. Researchers. Journalists.

Public data that sat unreadable for years is now one search away.

https://t.co/U9KI0mUCAp

[Avon and Somerset Police @ASPolice]

Can you help us find missing Ryan, 16?

He was last seen in Bridgwater at around 5pm on Tuesday 2 June.

He has links to Bridgwater, Highbridge, Minehead, Taunton and Exeter.

➡️ If you see Ryan, please call 999 quoting 5226151471, or call 101 with any other information.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Freyja1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇯🇩🇪 @FreyjaBakke]

#MISSING | Have you seen Amaya, aged 14 from Marston Green?

Amaya was last seen at 00:09hrs on the 29/05/26 and was wearing Black Nike T Shirt, Black Tracksuit Bottoms with a Black Nike Back Pack. Glasses are worn with tape on the arm.

If you see Amaya, call 999, quoting log 1541 of the 29/05/26.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

HOLY CRAP 🚨🚨

Albania’s anti-corruption prosecutors just froze Kushner’s dirty assets in the $4 billion resort fraud probe.

The jewish-linked land grab on the Albanian coast is collapsing under fraud investigations and furious public protests.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Save the planet? We live in an inverted world where governments suggest reducing the number of cows and red meat consumption but are quite happy to plaster scenic farmland with massive AI data centres.

[traymca 💙 @traymca]

Can we please stop building big unwanted data centres that do more against the environment than a plastic straw and stop with everything being a subscription… life isn’t supposed to be rented and ai is taking away all that makes us human

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Europe's biggest data centre could destroy our tranquil village.”

The quiet rural lifestyle enjoyed by residents of North Ockendon could vanish forever thanks to £15billion proposals for Europe's biggest data centre.

No one voted for this monstrosity.

https://t.co/7cfHNqKTeh