Why? Are cell phone towers not going to work?

Are you being serious?




Exactly, whether we like it or not the world is going to AI and become even more automated. It's already here in many facets. Personally I wish we would all goo back to dial up internet and no smart phones. I don't think I'll like what is coming. Just like the trans continental railway, there isn't any stopping the AI train. If we don't do it our adversaries will. My belief is a lot of this anti propaganda is funded by china.

It will require more data centers.

Another interesting article. This one makes it sound like Musk’s xAI is the first to build their own generation stations.

"Elon Musk’s xAI is constructing a first-of-its-kind AI campus, strategically split across two states. A new power generation facility in Southaven, Mississippi, will exclusively energize the massive "Colossus 2" supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, creating a vertically integrated system designed to house up to one million GPUs and operate at gigawatt scale..."

Perhaps they referring to the size and power of the generation stations.

The plant to generate electricity for the data thing 6 miles north of me is going to produce 350 megawatts and is fueled by two 16 inch natural gas lines.
16 inch lines are huge.
The company building the data center is fully funding the power plant. The plant is called a “behind the meter” plant. That means they will use all of the power generated and no power will be put into public power grid.

Outlaw 99. Hang tough. It sucks to live on a place all your life and somebody decide "for the better good" we need your land. Had a main transmission line run across my homeplace taxes paid since the 1780s....private land so to speak. The county even thought it was a good place to connect a mountains to sea trail but luckily chose another route. We are in the fastest growing county in nc and all the big wheels think everything is for sale. Ive told more than one not even a shovelfull, path goes out the same way you came in. A lot of folks dont get it

Exactly, you get it!

…. Are data centers the reason why Trump said he was stapling green cards to Indian and Chinese diplomas or something like that ?

From this article about Colossus 2, dated 7 months ago, there is mention of other AI companies building their own generation plants. And, in AI speed, 7 months equals about "several" years, lol. A lot can happen in "several" months.



https://anastasiintech.substack.com/p/new-colossus-2-the-worlds-largest

I am for data centers as long as they result in raising the global temperature just high enough to combat the coming of the next ice age.