ON his golf course, not next to it.
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Abbott softened his stance amid mounting voter backlash about rising energy costs tied to the projects.
Plus the huge amount of money we’re spending is just a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of the environmental devastation – including especially, human deaths – caused and worsened by all that AI consumption.
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His first wife is already there. Does she deserve another indignity?
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Nope, just humble pie.
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I have a new car that uses Google Maps. It also can drive hands free and park itself. I just haven’t had enough nerve to rely on the hands free driving feature. It downloads software updates from the manufacturer. My car is an EV. After an update I found I have an additional 10 miles on a charge. I have to say the tech on my new car is pretty slick.
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Nice list of people not to vote for.
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There’s a reason the biggest polluters and resource-takers are usually located in the poorest parts of any state or city. There’s also a reason we’ve got a Cancer Alley in at least one of those places, in Lousiana I think.
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This. Even if the water isn’t “consumed” (Lutnik’s word), water going to the data centers is diverted from other uses, like drinking water and irrigation.
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Remove and take her to a far better grave yard.
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He’s paid back the tech company executives who donated to his inauguration and funded his White House ballroom by using his second term to push for unregulated AI expansion and is even pushing new rules that make it more difficult for local governments to get public input on data center construction.
So much for local control.
Always thought rethugs believed in local government. Must have been the acid.
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Sooner or later, most likely sooner, the technology will bypass the need for these half mile square plus data centers. Then what will the host community have?
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Any roses left in the garden?
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Supposedly, each new generation of AI Chips seems to require different mounting cards and connections to the data center backbone. So, every 2-ish years the data center is “obsolete” and would likely need to be scrapped or retrofitted for the new requirements.
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This is rather interesting.
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Superfund sites.
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Imagine if we invested just a tiny fraction of this money in high speed rail and other public transit that would actually improve people’s lives…
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Like 99% of Americans, my knowledge of AI is insufficient to judge where this is taking us. My son and his colleagues are smack-dab in the middle of this revolution, and over the past couple years have gingerly embraced AI while building their own ad hoc guardrails. They say it feels like coding has advanced two decades in the past year, and the work today feels more like sheepherding, since you do very little coding yourself. Instead you’ve got a dozen agents working in parallel that return from time to time to report that the task is ready or they are at a fork in the road and need more instructions. Parsimony, the standard for clean code, has been replaced with shaping. Like shepherds overseeing their agent flock, you have to fill the time between the intense parts.
Society has yet to feel the effects of this change, just as it took a while to shift from coal steam engines to diesel and gas engines. AI has always been on the radar, IBM researchers were imagining it in the 1950s. What changed was gaming chips, rebranded as AI chips. Just as the work of programmers has become more about running parallel tasks, the chips of choice, gaming graphics processing units, contain thousands of smaller cores designed to process data simultaneously. They rely on the same linear algebra and floating-point calculations to render pixels and predict words. This also creates a gamer psychosis, whereby people believe reality is a construct, a chunky version of PK Dick’s VALIS. Elon Musk, for example, once noted: “There’s a billion to one chance we’re not living in a simulation." Anyway, boom times for psychotherapists and psychiatrists ahead.
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I trust many many folks have now downloaded the existing article!
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About 75% of Sweden’s public transport is publicly funded. It is excellent because of seamless integration between travel modes such as rail, tram, metro, ferry and bus, and a strong commitment to sustainability. I would also mention frequency. High frequency generally beats high speed. There are some corridors where high-speed rail makes sense, but you still need frequency. The high-speed train between Tokyo and Fukushima, 200 miles, runs every 15 minutes. The 700 mile haul to Fukuoka in the south takes under 5 hours and runs 2 or 4 times an hour. Better than the 13 hour drive.
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