I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.

The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is very easily the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever, and it puts them way ahead of Microsoft. It is almost certainly a reflection of the obscene energy hunger of their ever-expanding bloated generative AI systems, and a vindication of the warnings we’ve been raising for several years now.

Tech companies are run by a feckless leadership accountable to no one, creating a toolkit for authoritarianism while hypnotized by science-fiction fantasy.

Shader Toy + Google Map + Panoramic Explorer

This is the network of connections Google uses to identify relevant social search results. It is based on a combination of the following:

* Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (57, 12 with content)
* Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile (425)
* Secondary connections (2699) that are publicly associated with your direct connections

The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes

words of wisdom from Google autocomplete

more on the Murdoch/Microsoft thing, because it's just crazy

"Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to remove its news content from Google" Oh wow :o !

Oh My Google... more javascript goodies from the Google God

quelle bande de nerds :p

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google-blog-converters-appengine
Converters to/from various blog formats hosted on Google App Engine.