This guy is pretty dry, but he does a good job of breaking down what these are, how they work and the challenges with them. TLDR: You don't own the security, the token creator does (Robinhood, etc) with just a promise to pay you if they sell their positions. You don't get to collect dividends of any equity, etc.

I have an old voffee mug covered with 1970s computing aphorisms. One says, "If computers ever get too powerful, organize them into a committee. That will do them in.."

Yup, one stated reason for the RAT on documents I have seen is to extend the data collection by the FDRs by maintaining power to the sensors and canbuses.

That's how I read it. It should say it has no thrust.

A typical jet turbofan airframe has two engines that each have a generator shaft taking turbine energy and making electrical current. It then has a whole 'nother turbine engine used on the ground and in some other flight legs called the APU; this exhausts out the tail cone usually, and can start engines or provide extra hydraulic power if needed, but is slow to start just like the main engines.

For power loss emergencies, a small spring-loaded fan pops into action super fast, called a Ram Air Turbine or RAT. It can only make enough electrical power to reboot key systems like engine FADECs or avionics, often only on one electrical channel instead of all channels. It's only a turbine, not a thrust-producing fan. It's a pinwheel toy in comparison to the APU and even the APU cannot produce significant thrust.

Firing the entire board of vaccine science immunologists, and replacing them with pre-science miasma theory antivax stooges, for example.

I don't know if this guy has been on vacation or living under a rock, but there was already a correction last month. Microsoft dropped 2GW worth of DC leases (on top of the several hundred MW they did in Feb) which flooded the market with inventory. Two of my customers immediately dropped out of work that was being done on other data centers because they knew they would be able to pick up space sooner and for less money as a result. Everybody in the industry saw a pull-back. Where we were working on designing and selling inventory that was 24 months out now nobody wants to talk about anything that is further than 12 months away from being ready.

Tying new data centers to old nuclear plants has a whole host of other issues around it that make me think this will end up being a nothing burger (SMRs are another matter), but this supposed irrationality of a capital system working as intended seems ill conceived.

Matt Ferrell did a video about this development last week for anyone interested.

Seems the Danes are less susceptible to Silly Valley's influences, or the study period ended too early, or both. Alternate explanation, companies have fallen over themselves to lay off staff but won't cop to AI as a cause, as they find other excuses to tell their investors.

Click-ka-click-ka-click... ah, forget it, it just doesn't scan right.

Dumb baldfaced lie. And so many gullible idiots will believe it.

I'm not sure this will answer your question, but if it doesn't then maybe you can expand on it a bit and I will try again.

In a typical DC you have both the utility feed and (diesel) generator feed coming into an automatic transfer switch (ATS) which automatically switches the load over from one to the other if the utility feed fails. But these are then typically run to an on-line UPS which (again, typically) has a run-time of 4-5 minutes. So the power is conditioned by the UPSs in the facility all the time. If the power from the utility goes out the ATS switches over to generator while the UPS picks up the load. The gens take about 30 seconds to start and get up to speed which is plenty fast enough since you have 4+ minutes of run-time on your UPSs.

So the minor fluctuations in the grid don't really matter to a DC operator. The UPSs condition the power and the generators can run the facility indefinitely (provided you've got good fueling contracts in place).

That said, I design about a dozen large data center solutions a year and each one comes with a set of somewhere between 500 and 1000 distinct requirements. It's big money and the people who are buying the capacity want to make sure they are getting exactly what they need/want. And every single one of these requests contain a question about the proximity of the data center to high-risk areas like chemical processing facilities, fuel storage depots, freight rail, etc. Guess what's on the list? Nuclear facilities.

So the idea that these DC operators want to locate their facilities right beside nuclear power stations is in contrast to one of their risk requirements. I don't think this is going to be a big trend because *their* customers are not going to be happy about it even if they are willing to make the compromise. $0.02 and all that...

Weird that the article doesn't actually go into any details about how cool these planes are. Here is a video of how they work for those who want to geek out.

What a crazy time to be alive. Back in 1987 authors Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka wrote a book called "Nature's End" about environmental catastrophes on Earth. In it the protagonist used a computer called an "IBM AXE" that had a rollable screen. The book was set in 2025.

And here we are with Lenovo (formerly IBMs consumer products division) releasing such a product in the same year set in the book. Wonderful! I wonder if anyone working at Lenovo has any idea...

Shhhhhh..... I'll have you know all my abilities come naturally. ;)

"U.S. biotech startup Loyal plans to launch a lifespan-extending drug for dogs in early 2024". Looks like they've already been successful and the secret is time travel.