Here’s the article i read. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/07/lanarkshire-ai-datacentre-datavita-chapelhall-national-grid-renewable-energy

There was an article a couple days ago about one near Glasgow that I think was supposed to be green and self-powered but has now been revealed will be powered entirely from the national grid.
Perhaps an example of where claims need to be enforcable and progress stopped if the develops back out of commitments that then have an adverse impact on society and the general public.

Im glad someone else noticed that

Can confirm it works. I have jf over tailscale.

I use my own domain but could be done using tailscale urls if you dont want to deal with certificates, split horizon dns, etc.

Probably wouldnt be a road for me, but im probably not a good indicator of other people.

My homelab is dark to the public internet, no exposed ports, no public IP, etc. My domain is an mx only zone.

Self hosting email would require too many fundamental changes to the security posture.

I understand, and please dont take it personally.
I hope the US survives the policies of the current administration and the abuses of power that are sad hallmarks of the US tech industry.

Like i said, the approach is intriguing.

Looks intriguing but looks like an american company - that immediately makes it a non-starter

Costs are probably negotiated but per 1,000 employees, most businesses will be paying somewhere between £500,000 and £1,500,000 each year just for Microsoft 365. So I’d estimate the UK civil service at a similar sum £450-500m per year for desktop services. Thats before any Azure or AWS costs

For 27 EU member states, an assumption of €10B / year leaving the EU and going into the us tech giant economy doesnt seem crazy.

So the scare tactic €115b is over 5-6 years. While it would take 10-12 years to save that from fees paid by the central government services alone. Thats a 50% offset immediately on top of the advantages of keeping those vast sums within the EU economic zone. I reckon local authorities and other public services across the wider public sector could offset the other 50%

How long would it take Europe to save €115B in microslop ransom… sorry i mean microsoft subscription charges?

Sadly 4 of those companies are American, and Dashlane has significant US operation presence, making those recommendations unacceptable to me - ymmv

1password is Canadian and zero-knowledge so could be an option if i didnt already use a different service.

I dont like the idea of pre-authorising a device to handle credentials and access in perpetuity at the hardware level. I’d be fine with having a hardware key that holds passkeys but cant use them, while the device using them can only do so when i put the two items together. Unfortunately i do not understand how to save a passkey to a hardware key or how to manage them once that is done. Till someone gives me a straightforward ux to do that, i’ll be using unique passwords, a manager, and totp.

If i am misunderstanding, thats just a different problem; the passkey thing needs to be explained more clearly.

Trying to find the upside here Maybe with limits, people will be more considered in what they choose to post or comment, and the disinformation bots will be curtailed?

I don’t use monnet or instagram etc. but i wouldn’t hate either of those possibilities.

Whats the view on American Intelligence? After all the tech is unreliable, often ignores the facts, and ia prone to making up random shot and presenting it as truth…

Also, how does this apply to scam altman and OpenAI ?

So the russian military machine has the same definitions of ‘moral’ as the israeli one…
and both have completely forgotten every blood soaked lesson that should have been learned in ww2.

Be careful with --delete if you automate the rsynch, include a safety check that the source drive is mounted correctly and is not empty. Wouldnt want a drive failure to be read as empty and delete everyrhing on the target…

I started in August. Running docker containers on ubuntu server lts minimal, on a ryzen 3 3200g with 16gb ram.

Running:

• Jellyfin
• RomM
• Kiwix
• Seafile
• Beszel
• Portainer
• WUD
• Pi-hole
• Unbound
• Caddy
• Syncthing
• Tailscale

The domain has no website and no open ports, so Caddy handles routing and automated tls certification via api. External access only via tailscale, per user and per device approval process. Split horizon dns so domain names resolve direct routes to server on lan, and via tailnet from outside.

500GB nvme OS drive rsynched nightly to a second matched nvme in the server. HDD data drives backed up using rsynch to matching sized drives in a DAS unit. Script dumps romm and seafile databases to hdd before rsynch Git pulls to data drive, captured in backup and Syncthing to separate device.

Parallel Pihole and Unbound on a RPi5. RPi5 is primary dns for the lan to spread load, but the config master is the server, RPi is kept in sync with a one way feed from the main server using Syncthing.

Looking into adding openclaw and ollama to play with, maybe use to monitor the server a bit more proactively. Need to plan out permissions and security so nothing dumb happens.

For me, its just a board that knows which imagea i am running and tells me if there is a newer one so that i know how out of date i am 😂

No auto updates thanks. 😅 I’ve just reset all my compose files to pin versions today after an unintended mariadb update cost me hours to repair. I’ll look into dockhand though. Was unimpressed at portainer’s announcement that new version wont have a community edition. Portainer is really just an ‘at a glance’ view for me since i try to do all the compose and troubleshooting stuff in terminal. Wud will probably become a thing i just review every few weeks to make sure i dont get too adrift from latest.

I ought to look into a unified dashboard as i dont have easy visibility or things like disk usage, sheduled backup success etc that id like to see alongside the container status and beszel activity graphs.

Im still quite new to it all though.

Portainer, beszel, and Whats up docker

I dont know if you being right or wrong changes the predictable commercial future.

If you are wrong then the prevailing narrative holds, these companies are subsidising costa to an unprecedented level and a revenue correction is inevitable.

If you’re right, the actual (today) cost of tokens is not utterly horrendous compared to pricing… but that raises the question: what in the name of god do we need all the planned but not yet online datacentres for?

I can only think that it is to train and serve frontier models at an increased token cost that is not predicated on capacity based quantisation, and surely that will make the token costs horrendous because all that investment has to create a return somewhere, so a revenue correction will follow.

Best case scenario; the revenue correction arises after efficient open source models are capable of sustaining most commercial activity. Then the world does not need the datacentre buildout that’s propping up nvidia etc., (i kinda hope thats already the case). Frontier level models will stroll (have strolled?) on past the point of diminishing returns and will become commercial black holes…

Sadly i didn’t miss the part that presented me with a paywall when i clicked the link before i posted the reply.