Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Spain Bans A/C Dropping Below 80°F, Threatens Massive Fines
Citing “a real risk of a natural gas shortage during the coming winter," the Spanish government has decreed that all shops, department stores, cinemas, hotels and public buildings cannot have air conditioning set below 27 degrees Celsius (just below 81 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer, heating above 19 degrees in the winter (66 degrees Fahrenheit).
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That is going to cause a shit-ton of problems in server rooms.
ReplyDeleteNah... I run my server room at 80F 24-7 365. I set the bios to not kick up the fans until the ambient reaches 90. My watt usage is actually lower and the cpus do just fine. That being said the government should never dictate. Damn communists.
Delete.... coming to a corrupt country near you .....
ReplyDeleteNot sure how this helps. AC was not invented in Spain. Thought it was a pretty tame place. Not to cold and not too hot.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia beat them to it. No, there's no "mandate," just electric and gas rates so high, this temperature range is all we can afford! Anyone who expresses a desire to vote for Gavin Newsom for president should be ...dealt with summarily...
ReplyDelete..... and YOU better not turn your AC on when I need to charge my EV........
DeleteIs there any proof that using slightly less natural gas now will actually result in more natural gas available come winter? Given that it's a consumable commodity and you don't just fill 5 gallon buckets with natural gas and store them in the garage, exactly what sort of fucking sense does this make? We have strategic reserves in the USA (or we had, thanks to Brandon), but daily usage shouldn't really reflect on your reserve capacity assuming you were smart enough not to sell it to China. I'd like to see the actual engineering and science behind how this is supposed to work, if indeed there is any.
ReplyDeleteDon, the way I understand it, it is not to conserve for future use but to reduce the money paid to ebil Russia.
DeleteThe point is to train people to comply, to get them used to miserable conditions, and also for fun, just because they can.
DeleteBesides, Spaniards must be punished. For the Reconquista, you know.They finally kicked out the Muslims after centuries of warfare, which is "Islamophobic" and therefore wrong. But far, far, far worse, they also kicked out The Best People in 1492 with the Alhambra Decree.
Oh crap another crowd's about to be on the way across the border
ReplyDeleteFirst we make a mess of things, then we threaten you with massive fines for trying to make the best of it.
ReplyDeleteAnd just like Amerika, they keep voting their socialist assholes back in power.
Deleteyou will never have an honest election with mail-in voting and/or voting machines.
DeleteComing to a city near you.
ReplyDeleteWe were in Florence Italy last October and our Airbnb hostess told us the same rule was in effect. We had two damn cold rainy days and our otherwise nice condo unit was bloody uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteTourists should avoid Europe, they've once again gone mad with another religious frenzy, this time "Climate Change".
Sooner or later the Spanish will start burning heretics for being unbelievers, or as the religiously exalted presently call us, "Deniers".