Tomas Wyns

There should a Pulitzer for headlines.

How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power As data centres get more energy-hungry, the hyperscalers get more creative

Funny how for years power infrastructure buildout was "complex," "slow," "decades away". Until AI showed up with real money and urgency. Suddenly, regulators, utilities, capital all move at warp speed. Maybe we never had a technical problem, just a priority problem. www.economist.com/business/202...

Opinion | Kasparov and Landsbergis: Europe’s Future Depends on Confrontation, Not Compromise To survive, the European Union needs to change.

It's time for a European revolution. Our Atlanticist leaders have driven us into a ditch

"What we're witnessing is a sunset of Europe, the decline of a union founded on principles of peace & diplomacy that can no longer effectively respond to the moment" write Gary Kasparov & Gabrielius Landsbergis

"China has approved 183 new Brazilian coffee companies to export products to the Chinese market ... The measure, a boon to local exporters after the United States government's announcement of steep tariffs on Brazilian coffee and other products, took effect on July 30."

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

Thanks everyone, it’s been fun being a scientist in the US. 👋

Every time you buy this book, you slightly increase the chance of Elon Musk yelling at me. Please do your part.

Motherfucking wind farms…

The EU debate on the automotive sector is clouded by a lot of confusion over what is actually going wrong.

@jannikjansen.bsky.social has a fantastic new piece that provides a much-needed guide to unmuddling the picture!

Finite Monkeys, Finite Keyboards: The Wild Alien Possibilities of Sara Imari Walker’s Life as No One Knows It - Reactor Radically rethinking the origins of life on Earth and throughout the universe...

@r-emrys.bsky.social explores the work of physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker, and how her insights into Assembly Theory and the origins of life might influence the future of science and science fiction 🌱

reactormag.com/the-wild-ali...

“The main objective of a waste-to-energy plant is not to produce energy; its primary purpose is to manage waste that cannot be recycled,” explained Patrick Dorvil, senior economist in the circular economy division of the European Investment Bank.

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

This is not surprising and yet bizarre...

It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.

Imho the almost complete subjugation of the #EU to Trump de facto implies giving up large part of regulatory autonomy. Proof in eating of pudding of course but watch things like CBAM etc.

The Transatlantic Alliance in the Age of Trump: The Coming Collisions Europe is now staring at the beginning of a new post-American age. The policy collisions to come will be transformative for transatlantic relations and will reshape the transatlantic alliance.

Taps the sign www.csis.org/analysis/tra...

My best guess is this is just the end of the beginning. Both the EU and US will take opposite lessons from this. For the EU, it’s embarrassing, proves the need to stand up for itself. It discredits appeasers and empowers hardliners.

For the US, it shows EU weak and will fold. 1/

The EU’s Monster Energy Deal With Trump Looks Hard to Achieve The European Union’s promise to buy $750 billion of American energy imports over three years was pivotal to securing a trade deal with President Donald Trump, but it’s a pledge it will struggle to kee...

And that's even without taking the, you know, whole decarbonisation of the EU's economy we're trying to do into account.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Also, neither the EU nor Member States buy gas or oil. Private companies do. So unless we're going to nationalise Shell, Totale, etc I don't know how this is supposed to work.

Europe to import $250 billion of US energy products per year under new Trump trade deal. *Total* EU-27 energy import now is ~€375 billion p.a. Even if the $250 billion of imports were technically possible, this would imply total EU energy dependence on the US.

Btw spare a thought for South Korea.

Seoul is surely going to get an EU-Japan style deal now - not much bargaining power left now that London, Brussels and Tokyo have folded.

Washington played a game of divide and conquer masterfully.

Anton offers a realist’s view. I think ‘damage limitation’ was the mantra in Brussels and most EU capitals.

But that framing accepts the US tariffs as a given. And even if that’s right, sometimes you have to fight back to limit the damage. Europe had significant leverage it was unwilling to use.

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President von der Leyen is trying to sell yesterday’s surrender as the “biggest trade deal ever”.

But this is not a free trade deal. It is a package of concessions that were extorted from Europe by Trump’s threats.

My take: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-has...

Misschien had het palmares van Wout van Aert er nog wat gestoffeerder kunnen uitzien.
Maar qua iconische overwinningen, kippenvelmomenten en het talent om een volledige natie en de rest van de wereld* met verstomming te slaan doet Wout voor niémand onder. #TdA25

*Deel van Denemarken uitgezonderd.

The EU-US deal shows the shambles of European foreign policy. You can’t ring-fence the economy from defence – if you are dependent in your security you won’t be autonomous in commerce

Chinese Game Giant Investing $65 Million in Nuclear Power The investment has led to a validation of the technical approach, and tens of billions will continue to fund the development of its next-generation device.

It never stops being funny that I can tell other academics "a gacha game company invested $65 million in a tokamak" and it's literally true: thechinaacademy.org/chinese-game...

Trade and military power go together!!!

You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other.

European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.

Amerika naait ons en Europese leiders staan te applaudisseren. Gênant.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.