Ed Featherston

Ed Featherston

@efeatherston.bsky.social

Technology evangelist , Enterprise/Cloud Architect, with over 3 decades designing and delivering Enterprise Architecture (EA) solutions for the most complex technical environments. #ciochat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edfeatherston/

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Make no mistake, the administration has is now actively sided with Russia against Ukraine based on - Buying Russian Diesel against our own sanction laws providing Russia with money to continue the war - Elon explicitly stated the cutoff of Ukraine from Starlink communications was gov decision

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Who should own analytics: IT, the business or both? www.cio.com/article/4229... It’s an age-old question. But it generally has an easy answer in my experience: 1) IT owns the platform 2) LOBs own the insights/KPIs 3) The entire business owns + shares the data

cio.comWho should own analytics: IT, the business or both?Centralize analytics, and it gets slow. Decentralize it, and it gets messy. The answer is a shared seam that keeps data and decisions connected.

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Growing up in Tennessee (long ago), it seemed like only a matter of time before coal (for sure) and other fossil power would be phased out for a combination of #nuclear and #hydroelectric. Tens of GW of new fossil power in 2026 feels like a betrayal... 🤦‍♂️ www.utilitydive.com/news/tva-pro...

utilitydive.comTVA considers up to 26 GW of gas-fired generationLoad growth in the Tennessee Valley Authority region is already outpacing the reference case forecast that was in its draft integrated resource plan, the federal utility said.

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SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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That seems to match my intuition. Everybody running their own 1GW+ power plant doesn't seem like a path to long term sustainability for anybody. Eventually, their shareholders will start asking whether power generation is really/still a business differentiator... www.utilitydive.com/news/large-l...

utilitydive.comLoad growth can help modernize grid, but cost-shift risks are significant: ConcentricOn-site generation can be an interim solution as projects await full grid interconnection, but “widespread reliance on off‑grid systems is not a durable path forward,” Concentric said in a new report.

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And, there you have it. Unless she's wrong about what's happening or why, that's a #DataCenter story that will resonate with people and be cited over and over as part of data center backlash efforts. Will every data center project result in such harms? No. Could many? Yes. Could they do better? Yes!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

“My childhood home is being taken by @GeorgiaPower to supply power to a new data center…” 🤔 They are now seizing people’s homes in Georgia via eminent domain to build power lines for a $17 billion data center. One has been forced into Utah. And xAI in Memphis. And on and on.

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A win! A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Arizona’s unredacted voter rolls and did it with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled. Judge Susan Brnovich ruled that the Civil Rights Act does not authorize the demand, siding with

So I have a silly question. The logic being used for the Ballroom now is to be able to have Trump and his admin attend public events in safety. Does that mean no more public appearances, no rallies, no golfing on open golf courses?

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A new mystery to solve... I don't have phone service through my cable company, but I just got caller ID popups on my TV from names/numbers I don't know... Hmmm...

I am so tired of all the journalists talking about the trauma of their near death experience this weekend. He was a full floor away, sudbdued by security doing their job. Lets talk about the trauma of school children who have had actual near death experiences, guns pointed at them, friends killed.

Let me make sure i understand the rules - Children get shot and killed in schools, thoughts and prayers - Shooter shows up at presidential event, does not get near the president, full floor away, stopped at security check point, for that we need the whitehouse ballroom built Sure , makes sense to me

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Not sure this could get much worse. Utah isn't exactly known for having lots of water to spare, and now they want to use fossil fuel to generate multiple gigawatts of on-site power as well? #NoThanks

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.