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🇨🇳 Arnaud Bertrand on X: It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project
It'll be by far the world’s largest hydroelectric facility, generating 3 times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam, 300 billion kilowatt-hours.
This dam project alone could power almost a quarter (21.6%) of all US households, since the average U.S. household consumes about 10,500 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity per year and there are 132 million households in the US.
It could also power the entirety of France and Italy COMBINED, since the average electricity consumption in France is 2 223 kWh per person per year, the scale is almost too unfathomable to believe.
Fascinatingly, part of the plan, as per China's “Eastern Data, Western Computing” initiative, might be AI
It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing, but also the fact that it's located in naturally cold Tibet with close to freezing water temperature - perfect to cool down data centers for free.
As Keji Mao - who worked as a Research Fellow at the powerful NDRC (the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking) - puts it: "China will transform industrial capacity into electricity, electricity into computational power, and computational power into ever higher levels of advanced productivity."
London Police roll out military-grade riot trucks.
The Met Police just dropped £3.2 million on 18 Israeli-built Sandcat armoured beasts - 9,000kg each, built for warzones, now weaving through London traffic.
They are bulletproof, bomb-resistant, and big enough to haul 11 officers into "extreme public disorder."
They are reportedly not operational yet, just “training.”
What are they training for?
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The DOJ has eliminated disparate-impact regulations today, rolling-back the liability priority of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which gave an advantage to people ‘statistically likely to experience discrimination’ such as non-Whites, the LGBT and non-Christians.
This means discrimination in a federal legal context must be proven by intent and conduct, making it harder to merely accuse businesses or White men of discriminating for maintaining reasonable standards.
Portsmouth City Council ban Christmas wreaths.
Liberal Democrat-run Portsmouth City Council turned Scrooge as it told tenants that they could not hang a wreath on the front-door of their flat.
Housing officers from the council sent out hundreds of letters threatening Christmas-loving locals with fines and removal should they not comply with the order.
The letters insist that tenants "must not leave items in the communal areas" to abide by their tenancy agreements.
