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!

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.

What is the correlation between data centers and Bitcoin?

Ol dad

I guess nobody watched Terminator. Skynet is here.

They really need to know everything about you.
Such as when you have your phone in your pocket, and you aren't even using it, and you tell your significant other your safe combination number, how much cash you have ( and didn't report as income to the IRS), how many guns you have, that "oil filter" that screws on the end of your rifle barrel thst you just had to tell your friend about, that conversation you had with your "side chick", and on and on....
They need to store this information somewhere, geez.

More than likely. I am currently in year 5 of higher education. Most of my classmates cannot fathom how (.2*40)+(.4*60)+(.6*80) = 80.

We have to face that our education system has completely failed our youth. I only know how to the solve that problem as I took the time to learn the simple process afterwards.

Trump is rubber stamping chinks green cards, because as white17 alluded to earlier in this post, if we don't develop this technology THEY will. And WE don't have the quality of people to beat them at that game. So, in order to do so... we have to rob their's.

Just my opinion.

Meta has a large one underway in Louisiana. The land was originally owned by the same guy that owned land for a hunting lease I belonged to decades ago.

That's 3rd grade level math. Its sad someone getting a Masters in Business Administration can't solve that.

Keith

Equality IS a myth..... 100%

And you can believe whatever you choose to believe regarding about how it came to be embraced here, because in the end how it happened matters not at all.......

I'm 100% with you as well on getting back to where we were.

But can we do that by next week, or next year?

I know you know we cannot so........

what should we do in the meantime??

I think that if there any true men left in Europe, of European descent, that it's going to kick off there soon. I think most of the third world people, especially the Muslims, will be driven from Europe.

If that happens, the same will likely happen here, but more peacefully.

Keith

I get a kick out of people saying we have to beat China to the tech. You are in a hurry to be under a total communist regime, huh? You don't think we are already being tracked closely enough and desire to have your bank account frozen if you don't worship your elected leaders at all times?

Savell, you'd be interested in my vertically integrated organ harvesting, chipper and feed plant, alongside hog and chicken ranches.....win win...

I'm afraid this is where we're headed, no matter who wins what.

I can't fathom the endless money available to build these things and it shows me the values and morals of the society we live in. Our local officials used some underhanded principles to bypass the public input. Once it was in motion the cry for mercy was......If we don't build these our school system is going to suffer we need the tax revenue. So.... billions of dollars are being spent , so the schools can receive a 15% tax revenue. Puny handout from a greedy society