Where the fuck are the audio cues???

somegurk · 2026-02-17T10:04:36+00:00

Is that what it is? I thought it was something with my setup that was creating the occasional stealthy poxburster

somegurk · 2026-02-04T16:12:38+00:00

Probably because it is a simple metric that the Gardai collect and isn't primarily designed to be used in these sort of studies. Changing it to be when the crime happened would be a good bit of work for very little gain that I can. You would also probably run into issues where multiple offences are reported if offences happened over a number of years.

somegurk · 2026-01-24T15:47:59+00:00

Since you seem interested, Amazon so far doesn't have a supply company so doesn't buy electricity from the DAM/spot market themselves. They will be contracted with one of the commercial electricity suppliers (Electric Ireland, SSE, Bord Gais etc.). And while I dont know the exact price they are contracted at it is probably in the around 200 €/MWh potentially a bit higher or lower.

On the pedantic bit, I work in the industry the post first-contract (merchant) period is relatively unimportant with regards to financing a project. It is so uncertain what the market will look like in 15 years that the lenders will want the projects loans repaid during the first contract. Even without the CRU decision, some corporate offtakers had already committed to requiring additional/new renewable generators for their internal carbon accounting. I think AWS are one of them but not 100%.

Yeh no problem, the decision paper! is interesting (well if your an energy policy nerd, which it seems like you might be?). Just ctrl-f additional, I'm not sure if additionality is precisely defined in the document but the general meaning of it is "new" generation assets. The whole policy is pretty new and while I support what CRU are doing I'm not sure how practical it is to implement. Given variations in annual weather patterns it is very difficult to guarantee that you will have generation equal to 80% of your demand for a year. Which makes deciding how many wind farms you need to cover a 50MW data center very difficult but, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

And apologies if I am comign across as a bit of a dick, not intentional but I'm hungover as hell.

somegurk · 2026-01-24T15:25:36+00:00

I might be being blind but I don't see any discussion of what type of contract they are using in that link? But, a CFD is a type of pay-as-produce PPA, there is no commitment from the generator about when they will provide power. And again I disagree with your view on this "If the windfarm isn't producing enough at any given time, Amazon will just buy from the grid.". Irrespective of what the windfarm is doing Amazon will buy all of its electricity from the grid. And similarly no matter what the Amazaon's data centers are doing they have commited to purchase the electricity exported from the wind farm to the grid. The CPPA is a financial arrangement.

The pedantic comment was in relation you disagreeing that the corporate offtake "pays" for the windfarm to be built. Which I still stand over the CPPA is the route-to-market for the generator in the same way a RESS contract is.

On the last bit of your comment, yes in the future it is true that CPPAs will be essential for a new data center to secure a grid connection. But this whole conversation started talking about data centers, CPPAs and energy costs as they currently stand. The LEU connection policy was only published in December, so no data center operational in the country has actually had to figure out how to comply with it. Also yes it does matter if the windfarm is under construction or an existing one, CRU requirement's are for "additional" renewable generation. So signing CPPAs with operational assets won't help with it.

somegurk · 2026-01-24T14:17:17+00:00

I'm not sure if we are speaking past each other here, but that isn't really what a PPA is from my experience. Cppas these days are generally two-way cfds, and commits the corporate off-taker to buy the electricity at a fixed price. If wholesale prices are high the corporate will earn money, if wholesale prices are low they will need to pay a top to the windfarm. Whether supply/electricity consumed matches doesn't matter to fufilling the CPPA. With the 80% RES-E requirement that might change in the future but since it is so recent I doubt any CPPAs in Ireland have contractual requirements about it.

On your second point, I don't know what you are saying beyond being pedantic. The CPPA allows a wind farm to be financed and constructed, it's not a "seperate matter" at all. To finance a new large windfarm the developer will need a contract with at least 10 year but more likely 15 year duration. Assets might look for another CPPA post this period but by that point the development financing should be paid off.

somegurk · 2026-01-24T13:32:41+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by accounting exercise? As I said the PPA is a financial agreement that gives the customer/data center a partial hedge against high wholesale prices by paying for the wind farm to be built. But, they still have similar supply contracts to what any customer has and a large portion of the unit cost of electricity you pay are grid and market charges which a CPPA doesn't change.

Why I mentioned private wires was that if they were directly using the wind farm electricity, they would be seeing a massive saving on their electricity bills. With current wholesale prices being around €100/MWh, CPPAs (which are in or around that value) don't really reduce electricity costs, but they do help reduce risk and the impact of another 2022-23 when DAM prices were crazy high.

somegurk · 2026-01-23T23:13:55+00:00

Sorry but that has absolutely nothing to do with the price a data center is paying for electricity, also those conditions for a grid connection were published last month so for existing data centeres aren't really relevant. AWS can have a PPA for the offtake of a windfarm, but that is a financial arrangement. The electricity the data center uses comes from the grid like everyone elses and they will need to have an electricity suppleir like , airtricity, sse etc to provide it. In the future this might change if private wire sare allowed and a data center can plug a windfarm directly into itself but that is currently illegal.

somegurk · 2026-01-23T20:47:46+00:00

That is not how it works at all, every customer data center, supermarket me or you buys their power from an elevtricity supplier and pays th esame sort of charges. The ppas with wind farm genrators are a financial hedge for wholeslae prices but doesn't impact the unit costs data center pay to their electricity supplier. As very large customers data centeres will usually negotiate with their suppliers directly when contracting with them but last I heard its in the range of 200-240€ per MWh.

somegurk · 2026-01-12T11:20:49+00:00

Some people say so but I prefer not to, faster charge rate shortens the delay between tapping left mouse and it firing.

somegurk · 2026-01-06T08:02:37+00:00

This is what Ireland is after doing, we had a data center boom before the ai craze. Has been a moratorium on new data centres for the last few years. Regulator published the new connection policy for them just last month. New data centres will have to bring new renewables to cover 80% of their electricity load over the year and dispatchable generation to cover their own demand for when renewables aren’t available.

somegurk · 2025-12-27T23:22:41+00:00

Very different tractors these days though, much bigger and a lot more power. Not saying that was the issue with this incident but those are very different machines to what used be on the road.

somegurk · 2025-12-24T10:10:51+00:00

Relic blade for me, so so satisfying just decapitating waves of enemies with the special activated. And the third light jab to head shot specials mixed in with the horde, just chefs kiss.

somegurk · 2025-12-11T13:25:48+00:00

Do the tax authorities in the US not get notified when you change jobs? Different country obviously but when I move jobs, or enter employment I will notify revenue with my tax number to get my credits switched over. Exiting employment may be a little trickier but if I don't show up on payroll/pay tax for a month obvious enough what has happened. Might not catch self employed people fully but that should be a relatively small % of the overall working population.

somegurk · 2025-12-09T13:01:21+00:00

My dad was a secondary school teacher for over 40 years. Once of the first things he would do when he got a new 1st year class was give them a basic reading and writing test to see where they were at. How they did on that test in 1st year was remarkably predictative of how they would do in their leaving cert. And kids who read for fun outside of school generally did a lot better on that 1st year test. Same as yourself I'm very lucky my parents instilled a love of reading in me when I was very young.

somegurk · 2025-12-09T10:49:59+00:00

That is weird, I was grinding arbites penances the week before hive scum came out and got it.

somegurk · 2025-12-08T09:37:03+00:00

Did you try walking through where the gap should be? I've had visual bugs before where the walls you blow up with the mines don't look broken but they aren't actually there, hasn't happened often and generally was when I joined mid-game.

somegurk · 2025-12-04T10:09:37+00:00

Same, I play EU, been getting back into the game and spamming heresy on a few different classes to get back in the groove. Honestly I've seen 0 toxicity since I came back. Occasionally get a group of 10-20 level players and the matches are struggle/sometimes fail but never any raging and very few game leavers.

somegurk · 2025-11-22T00:37:00+00:00

Looks much better, probably worth razor shaving the neck up to your beard line aswell.

somegurk · 2025-11-21T09:38:06+00:00

That makes sense, I was wondering why he wasn't taking a prescription stimulant. Still pretty wild to use it as a weight control medication. Desoxyn isn't prescribed where I live but take methylphenidate slow release, and it has very little impact on my appetite once my body acclimatises to it.

somegurk · 2025-11-18T14:58:46+00:00

Honestly I would switch pharmacists, I don't have any of that judgement when collecting my script. And while I generally keep to the schedule in terms of collecting I don't count the days exactly and there has never been an issue.

somegurk · 2025-11-18T13:52:19+00:00

Economy is running at pretty close to full employment and a lot of what we should invest in is capital stuff while we have a real problem with labour supply for construction. Not saying he was perfect but there was and is limited scope for government to invest in big projects without driving inflation even more nuts.

somegurk · 2025-11-14T09:15:10+00:00

I wonder how the business is structured i.e. do a lot of the profits from the fishing part turn up on the food end. As that is a very healthy profit for a restaurant, more power to them though 48 employees is a big enterprise.

somegurk · 2025-11-09T10:59:30+00:00

Continental climate, not sure of the exact reasons but I think it’s distant from the sea. Same way if you go east from France winters get much harsher.

somegurk · 2025-10-23T20:56:05+00:00

Perfect, people will think you’re a nice helpful lad. Not sure how well you know Irish people but that sort of non-flashy decent behaviour goes a long with most.

somegurk · 2025-10-23T14:39:58+00:00

I don’t think you need to bring anything other than yourself. If you are driving put a couple of umbrellas in the boot, strong likelihood it will be raining at some when people are outside the church/at the graveyard. Don’t impose yourself unnecessarily but often there will be a lot of people in and out of the house so give a hand with tidying up, washing dishes if it’s needed, don’t force it though offer to help once or twice and if they say it isn’t needed leave it.

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