Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group plans to hire bankers to arrange financing deals for data centers as Japan’s biggest bank jumps on the artificial intelligence boom. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/06/companies/mitsubishi-ufj-data-center-finance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #datacenters #banks #ai
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group plans to hire bankers to arrange financing deals for data centers as Japan’s biggest bank jumps on the artificial intelligence boom. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/06/companies/mitsubishi-ufj-data-center-finance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #datacenters #banks #ai
"After the Atlanta City Council passed legislation in 2024 limiting data centers near transit hubs, a site-specific exception was introduced to allow a data center to be built near the West End MARTA station. Ultimately the proposal was defeated after opposition from residents in Adair Park, neighborhood planning units, and an intervention by Mayor Andre Dickens.
… but now a revised version of the same proposal, which now includes new requirements for the project, was picked up by the City Council last month and will need to be voted on once again."
https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/southwest-atlanta-data-center-proposal-returns/
#politics #GAPol #Atlanta #dataCenters #MARTA
"After the Atlanta City Council passed legislation in 2024 limiting data centers near transit hubs, a site-specific exception was introduced to allow a data center to be built near the West End MARTA station. Ultimately the proposal was defeated after opposition from residents in Adair Park, neighborhood planning units, and an intervention by Mayor Andre Dickens.
… but now a revised version of the same proposal, which now includes new requirements for the project, was picked up by the City Council last month and will need to be voted on once again."
https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/southwest-atlanta-data-center-proposal-returns/
#politics #GAPol #Atlanta #dataCenters #MARTA
Although it is important to oppose data centres based on the detrimental effect of their water usage on local communities, in the end I fear this will simply lead to an increase in CO2 emissions: the data centres will still be built but they will be cooled using a closed circuit so that the water usage is no longer an issue.
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Carbon OFFSETS ≠ Climate Action. 🛑
I thought my "300% Green" hosting was sustainable. I was wrong. As a researcher, I audited the data and found an F-rating.
Offsets are just "digital indulgences." Our operations are 99% digital; integrity demands we move beyond financial band-aids.
We are migrating to Greenhost to embrace Relational Accountability.
Is your digital footprint built on marketing or reality?
#Tech #AI #ESG #Greenwashing #DataCenters #Business #Leadership #Indigenous #Mastodon
Carbon OFFSETS ≠ Climate Action. 🛑
I thought my "300% Green" hosting was sustainable. I was wrong. As a researcher, I audited the data and found an F-rating.
Offsets are just "digital indulgences." Our operations are 99% digital; integrity demands we move beyond financial band-aids.
We are migrating to Greenhost to embrace Relational Accountability.
Is your digital footprint built on marketing or reality?
#Tech #AI #ESG #Greenwashing #DataCenters #Business #Leadership #Indigenous #Mastodon
Why is a standard business laptop or a mid-range smartphone more expensive in 2026?
The answer is not inflation. It is wafers.
In today’s semiconductor market, every DDR5 module, HBM stack, LPDDR chip, and enterprise SSD starts from the same 300mm silicon wafer. When manufacturers allocate those wafers to AI-grade memory for data centers, they are no longer available for PCs, smartphones, or consumer devices.
This article breaks down the full memory hierarchy—DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR, GDDR, HBM, and NAND—and explains the “Silicon Zero-Sum Game” driving record price increases across the entire IT ecosystem.
If you manage hardware budgets, data centers, or surplus IT assets, this is essential reading for understanding the 2026 memory super-cycle.
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/the-2026-global-memory-shortage-why-ram-and-ssd-prices-are-surging/
#MemoryPricing #DRAM #NANDFlash #SSD #DataCenters #AIHardware #SupplyChain #TechEconomy #HBM
#DDR5 #LPDDR5X #NVMe #EnterpriseSSD #WaferCapacity #ITAssetManagement #ITAD #tech
Why is a standard business laptop or a mid-range smartphone more expensive in 2026?
The answer is not inflation. It is wafers.
In today’s semiconductor market, every DDR5 module, HBM stack, LPDDR chip, and enterprise SSD starts from the same 300mm silicon wafer. When manufacturers allocate those wafers to AI-grade memory for data centers, they are no longer available for PCs, smartphones, or consumer devices.
This article breaks down the full memory hierarchy—DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR, GDDR, HBM, and NAND—and explains the “Silicon Zero-Sum Game” driving record price increases across the entire IT ecosystem.
If you manage hardware budgets, data centers, or surplus IT assets, this is essential reading for understanding the 2026 memory super-cycle.
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/the-2026-global-memory-shortage-why-ram-and-ssd-prices-are-surging/
#MemoryPricing #DRAM #NANDFlash #SSD #DataCenters #AIHardware #SupplyChain #TechEconomy #HBM
#DDR5 #LPDDR5X #NVMe #EnterpriseSSD #WaferCapacity #ITAssetManagement #ITAD #tech
Many institutions are committed to #sustainability.
For this reason alone, #digitalsovereignty should be important to them.
Two years ago, scientists from @JLBe and its network published a study on the sustainable use of #smartphones.
👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2995
It showed that typical #socialmedia apps such as #Instagram, #TikTok, #YouTube, etc. on #cellphones conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high #energy consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in #datacenters and transmission networks. A large proportion of the #electricity consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect #privacy and data protection, but instead spy on users.
The use of #Mastodon and other #Fediverse services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.
Many institutions are committed to #sustainability.
For this reason alone, #digitalsovereignty should be important to them.
Two years ago, scientists from @JLBe and its network published a study on the sustainable use of #smartphones.
👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2995
It showed that typical #socialmedia apps such as #Instagram, #TikTok, #YouTube, etc. on #cellphones conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high #energy consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in #datacenters and transmission networks. A large proportion of the #electricity consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect #privacy and data protection, but instead spy on users.
The use of #Mastodon and other #Fediverse services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.
"- Larry Ellison’s wealth is almost entirely tied up in Oracle stock.
Oracle’s stock is tied to the company “Oracle,” which is currently destroying its margins and annihilating its available cash to buy GPUs to serve a customer that cannot afford to pay it.
- Oracle has taken on ruinous debt that can only be paid if this customer, which cannot afford it and needs to raise money from an already-depleted venture capital pool, actually pays it.
- Oracle’s stock has already been punished for these debts, and that’s before OpenAI fails to pay for its contract.
- Oracle now owns part of one of its largest cloud customers, TikTok, which loses billions of dollars a year, and the US entity says, per Bloomberg, that it will “retrain, test and update the content recommendation algorithm on US user data,” guaranteeing that it’ll fuck up whatever makes it useful, reducing its efficacy for advertisers.
- Larry Ellison’s entire financial future is based on whether OpenAI lives or dies. If it dies, there isn’t another entity in the universe that can actually afford (or has interest in) the scale of the compute Oracle is building.
We are setting up for a very funny and chaotic situation where Oracle simply runs out of money, and in the process blows up Larry Ellison’s fortune. However much influence Ellison might have with the administration, Oracle has burdened itself with debt and $248 billion in data center lease obligations — costs that are inevitable, and are already crushing the life out of the company (and the stock)."
"- Larry Ellison’s wealth is almost entirely tied up in Oracle stock.
Oracle’s stock is tied to the company “Oracle,” which is currently destroying its margins and annihilating its available cash to buy GPUs to serve a customer that cannot afford to pay it.
- Oracle has taken on ruinous debt that can only be paid if this customer, which cannot afford it and needs to raise money from an already-depleted venture capital pool, actually pays it.
- Oracle’s stock has already been punished for these debts, and that’s before OpenAI fails to pay for its contract.
- Oracle now owns part of one of its largest cloud customers, TikTok, which loses billions of dollars a year, and the US entity says, per Bloomberg, that it will “retrain, test and update the content recommendation algorithm on US user data,” guaranteeing that it’ll fuck up whatever makes it useful, reducing its efficacy for advertisers.
- Larry Ellison’s entire financial future is based on whether OpenAI lives or dies. If it dies, there isn’t another entity in the universe that can actually afford (or has interest in) the scale of the compute Oracle is building.
We are setting up for a very funny and chaotic situation where Oracle simply runs out of money, and in the process blows up Larry Ellison’s fortune. However much influence Ellison might have with the administration, Oracle has burdened itself with debt and $248 billion in data center lease obligations — costs that are inevitable, and are already crushing the life out of the company (and the stock)."
