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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Direct quote from the article:

    Having difficulty securing enough grid power to fuel the energy-hungry data center, xAI brought in 35 portable gas turbines, and assembled them without environmental permits or pollution controls.

    Looks like it’s not just cooling that they’re doing there. The link in the quote leads to an article describing the data centre’s new turbines, specifically referring to them as methane gas turbines.

    I skimmed that article briefly and I don’t think it points out the mechanism by which these turbines work - if it does, I must’ve missed it. I did however see a line that said the turbines also release formaldehyde during operation.

    Methane in this case seems to me to either be a byproduct of power generation or unused fuel somehow leaking from the system. I have no clue how gas turbines work, so I’m talking out of my ass here. In any case this seems to be the source of the methane emissions.




  • for anyone interested:

    the scroll not working is most likely due to the main container in the page (usually the <body> tag but it can be some other element) having the overflow: hidden CSS property assigned to it.

    overflow dictates the behavior of an element that has its content overflow past the parent element’s boundaries.

    the property can have four values:

    • visible, where the overflow is fully visible and allowed to extend past the parent element,
    • scroll, which clips the overflowing content and allows the user to scroll the parent element,
    • hidden, which clips the overflowing content and prevents scrolling, and
    • auto, which works almost identically to scroll

    most sites run a script that assigns this property with the value of hidden to the <body> tag, making the user unable to scroll the page.

    ive seen this behavior the most with sites that blast you with an unavoidable cookie banner which you have to click through to access the page. usually removing the cookie banner element is not enough to freely access the page, and so you have to additionally find which element has its overflow set to hidden and disable that property.

    i reckon youtube’s adblocker popup is doing the same thing, and coincidentally turning off fullscreen also runs a script that makes sure the overflow is set to either scroll or auto