Weapons traitor to Digital Technology has become both a tool and weapon. Its great all kinds of benefits but all kinds of challenges as well and where to grapple with both sides to that equation. Host your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. Why there . Guest my coauthor and i chose quincy because its one of the data center capitals of the world. Its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings, more than 20, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousans of batteries but mostly server computers. Everything we do. Almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud which really means one of these data centers. Host you have 100 of these in 20 countries . Guest more than 20 countries come with an 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of t
Protests. Im chris colfer welcome to the program the european auto market grew by 1. 2 percent last year spurred by a december jump of that boosted the total number of cars sold to 15300000. 00 vehicles thats according to the Industry Association a c 8. Topped you auto sales followed by a french carmaker p. S. A. However out of the say the spike was artificial stricter Carbon Dioxide emission rules for 2020 pushed carmakers to get in all their religious traditions within 2019 particularly for vehicles emitting a lot of Carbon Dioxide. And as the Auto Industry is going through radical changes suppliers are trying to adapt to them. Automotive supplier bosch has one of its biggest facilities in bamberg in southern germany 7000 employees assemble traditional Combustion Engine parts making things like nozzles for diesel fuel injection. But the future is said to look more like this fuel cells as standalone Energy Supply systems for home use are smaller units to power cars and trucks shifting
Been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says for your constituents but mine say 1840 per year in congestion cost and we here at the National Council are the and then on 1840 per year per constituents and those are my constituents. Nothing short of a test and in our case in this region as a result of 248 million hours of congestion delays in 2017 across the dc me
Clerk we have a quorum. Could you please read the next item. Clerk Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Mr. Larson, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I am chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee to report on last wednesdays meeting of the cac. They reviewed the motion of support for 26 million in prop k allocation and one 100,000 prop k appropriation request on item 5 on the agenda. They responded regarding undergrounding the k and m lines to the twin folks tunnel and out to stones town. This harkins back to a Feasibility Study for less extensive that was to proceed to preenvironmental design in 2015. It was expanded in scope in 2016. When sf m. T. A. Staff was asks if this was to proceed. They need priority against other major transit projects as part of the overall connect effort. It would be premature to engage in Environmental Review until the transit corridor and streets and freeway studies recommendations could be evaluated. W
[inaudible conversations] ask unanimous consent the chairs authorized to declare a re safe one this recess. And also the members if youre not on the subcommittee and then you can ask questions without objection so ordered. Welcome our witnesses in particular to todays hearing as we are looking at the need to reauthorize not the cities and localities the focus has been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility rep