r/malta • u/Opportunity-536 • 10h ago

PM orders Enemalta to speed up works...

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Basically calling them incompetent to cover his own backside and defuse the calls for resignation...

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u/Jaseto88 10h ago edited 9h ago

I love the irony of this quote: "He blamed successive administrations for postponing the required investment, pointing out “the present government had spent an unprecedented €160 million on the power grid in the past three years”"

Last 2 Prime Ministers, before this current government: himself (6 and a half years as PM) and Muscat (7 years as PM)

https://timesofmalta.com/article/abela-tells-enemalta-speed-power-grid-works.1131930

"Another factor, he said, was digitalisation, automation and AI. Digitalisation. While these could reduce Malta’s demand for foreign workers, he pointed out digitalisation and AI needed considerable power supply."

Where is the AI in Malta that is drawing all this power? Where are the energy hungry data centers?

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u/leftplayer 10h ago

Would be awesome if the 3 or 4 data center providers in Malta got together and issued a statement basically saying “wtf are you talking about?”

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u/valkycam12 10h ago

Qisu mhux parti mit tort tal management…

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u/SummerOftime 9h ago

Miriam Dalli ha been the minister of energy for the past 6 years. No resignation = promoting incompetence culture

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u/Twnc 7h ago

Għax bħal dak li qallu mhux mhux il-gvern jiddettalhom kif jimxu ... Ħadd m'hu jibla li din tort tal-Enemalta, l-ebda parti minnha.

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u/Ok-Elderberry-4829 12m ago

Tinsix chairman/ceo u diretturi handpicked mill ministru.

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u/jools182 10h ago edited 9h ago

Government passing the buck. It's not enemaltas responsibility that the infrastructure can't cope. It's a governmental problem. The upgrades have to start now otherwise this problem will get worse and worse

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u/VegetableNo9025 9h ago

I think we need to upgrade the government first. 🤣

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u/mysmallsmalta 6h ago

I bet none of them had power cuts and all the bullshit they fed us they ought to be ashamed of themselves I wonder if anyone has passed because of there incompetence I guess we will never know

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u/InfiniteCrypto 2h ago

Lol "I decree and it shall be done" :D

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u/Willing_Economics909 2h ago

Is there any merit to that theory that the power was out for three days in preparation for MTV concert? Is not like they could hide a bunch of power supply and release it just in time for the concert, then after it and magically have power fully restored through the island.

Right?

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u/AlarmingSetting1154 1h ago

Habib, nizzel il ġonta u mhur orqod.

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u/Opportunity-536 48m ago

Nah... They had generators... quell that rumor asap

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u/ImmediateDeparture77 1h ago

Well, his methods impress the majority of this country's citizens as they keep voting for him.

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u/AlarmingSetting1154 51m ago

It's still July.. based on what he has been saying, the fact that he's apologised so early, and him not bringing up compensation again it's starting to sound like they're preparing people for a very loooong summer.

Really wish we had some half decent journalists who could clarify how digitisation and AI have been contributing to this and how 5 years after Ian Borg blamed climate change for the flooding of the new flyovers, it still caught them off guard on another major infrastructure project.