Ah, those were the times. When an armored fish could be an armored fish and you could say proto-vertebrate without offending anyone.

Nasdaq-listed tech company IREN is behind the massive data centre, which is proposed to be operating in 2028 at Bundey, two-and-a-half hours north-east of Adelaide.

The centre will need up to 800 megawatts of electricity, the equivalent of powering around 800,000 Australian homes.

It wasn’t that long ago that the media was kicking up a stink in SA about us installing renewables being a terrible idea for power supply consistency. But we can add 800,000 homes worth of draw in 1 datacenter and it’s ok?

God damn, I hope taxpayers aren’t subsidising this.

The logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable.

I don’t know, I’d say this was pretty predictable.

I remember reading a comment years ago about a box of kittens and a pelican…

People will celebrate the win while pretending the team is full of true-blue white aussie diggers and continue being racist anti-immigration.

The part of Aus I’m from celebrates their Cornish heritage with a festival every couple of years. Will that be banned since it’s “not Australian culture”? Of course not, because Cornish people are white.

Surprised you didn’t start your comment with @Grok…

The amount of people I know who think Trump is an idiot but swoon for Hanson is too damn high!! In the words of that Office meme “it’s the same picture.”

So we’re making servitors now?

BC was a few thousand years ago at this point. Might be too late for those homes.

It’s why I’m forever thankful for my close friends and family for their support when my now ex-wife was cheating on me. Australia’s legal system made it possible for her to cheat, drain my bank accounts and then take me for 50% of the house even though I financially supported as both and she only earnt a bit of fun money for herself.

It honestly felt like my world was crashing down. The trust I thought we had was gone, I was broke and staring down a legal process that eventually lead to an additional $150,000 in debt and half my superannuation disappearing. (The idea is based on the 1950’s notion of a 1 income household where the woman does “women duties” at home and the man just works.)

My ex convinced me to keep the whole thing secret for the first 4 months in which time I felt very isolated, depressed and suicidal. I can see how that would lead to attempts at suicide.

Could be flour… pure 100% Colombian flour.

Many AI companies are increasingly looking to Australia to build their infrastructure due to its access to renewable energy

Nice cheap energy to gobble gobble gobble and the puny poor humans can foot the bill.

Something that I don’t think has been mentioned is that even the free tier has screen sharing with audio at 720p30 or better resolution at like 1 fps for text legibility.

This makes Discord great for things like watching a friend play a game that you may enjoy watching them play but not enjoy yourself. Better coordination in team games when your friends are bad at game comms. Troubleshooting PC issues, collaboration on projects etc

JFC = Just Fucking Cill me?

Maybe less investment in trying to monopolise the market and more investment in developing their shopping platform so it’s not a smouldering turd.

But many people kept saying BoTh sIDeS around a certain persons death.

Yes officer, I’d like to charge this phone with battery.

Did her happiness make her HD?