Only Swans I know are Sydney AFL. Is there also a Swans in Melbourne?

They build it where they think it'll being them the most profit. Every denial reduces the profitability and thus reduces the amount they'll invest in data centres in the future. It's obviously a good thing, if you are opposed to increasing use of fossil fuels, to deny a permit to a building that will burn heaps of fossil fuels.

Your comment is the same kind of bullshit nonsense that leads some morons to saying things like "it's ok that we send weapons to aid Israel's genocide of Palestinians. If we didn't, someone else would." Or "we don't have to worry about our coal exports to other countries when accounting for our climate change impact. If we didn't sell it to them, someone else would."

It's obviously wrong, arrived at purely thanks to some incredible motivated reasoning.

Yeah you'd feel especially bad if, for example, it was parked there legally while you were out of town and never saw the "don't park here on this night" notice.

Here’s me trying the same for the uncropped version

Ok I'm even more confused now. That looks like it lines up pretty well, considering how the dirt & grass mess with things. I understand that you have an uncropped version now that you didn't have originally. Not sure where that came from because until now I've only ever seen the cropped version. But now I understand you do seem to know what you're doing, which makes me even more confused why your original version had those straight horizontal lines. What were those meant to be? Why didn't you have the lines following the direction of the path in that version like you did here?

Oof. Wonder what that's gonna cost them?

Bro what are you talking about? What are those horizontal lines supposed to represent? The photo is very obviously not taken straight on to the path, which is why it runs diagonally. The sign also appears to be facing roughly directly away from the path, so it runs at a similar diagonal.

More to the point…it's text on a sign. It's one of the easiest things to show is AI when it's actually AI. AI often does weird shit with characters even at the best of times, and try to get it to emulate the perspective on text that's askew and it's got no hope. But here there's nothing.

I'd say you're clutching at straws, but there aren't even straws here to clutch at. Not even paper straws that have sat overnight in a drink.

so you propose to increase coal use then

No. That's what you propose. By supporting this datacentre being built without a hard requirement of being 100% renewables.

Being always online is a hard nope from me. Which is a shame, because a lot of the other stuff they're doing seems good.

Where do you get those graphs? Does it also compare federation between Lemmy and Piefed/Pylova instances? I've noticed at least some of my comments on Quokkau are having federation issues with AZ.

what they process and companies behind what goes in the dc’s does

Yes but there's literally zero incentive for those people to be in Dalby. They'll be in Brisbane, or Sydney...or Singapore.

If we’re going to be using trillions of tokens we should be powering them with our own equipment and ideally powering them with renewables

Sure, if we really need datacentres for the purposes of AI slop, then it's better if they're on renewables. Which is yet another reason this is a bad idea.

The proposed Western Downs digital park...will connect to the Braemar power station

It's an absolute hard no from me on those grounds. We need to be drastically slashing our fossil fuel dependence. There's no excuse for increasing any use of fossil fuels in 2026.

I saw the Lord Mayor's comments earlier in the week and my immediate thought was what a complete fuckwit he is. "Can't keep privately owned items on public land" my arse. He's fucking obsessed with it. It's far more important to him that people be allowed to store their private property on public land than it is that people should be able to get around their city safely and conveniently.

Damn looks like you had a good arvo.