You can be certain USA military is involved  with this fab build-out chin-deep. Can't produce or support  modern agentic weapons without chips.

I hate *.ai ... BUT. It generates much more than you think. Ending a discussion of  advancing  steampunk technology, DDG.ai compared unprompted shamanistic conjuring  of objects from a smoky fire  with Quantum measurement of SPIN. Which I took as a random :smoke" or orbital motion.  See the Wild metaphor ? It's fucking voltage, current and power.  Yet also ...   something like two Oxbridge tutors arguing Wittgenstein over warm beer.  And one was *.ai . Can you dig it ?

Talk about non-starterz !  The only research you want to do with "data-centers/LLM/*.ai"  is ... how much C4 ....'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' deleted for the obvious national security reasons ....

LibreWolf is excellent; I switched from FF a few weeks ago . The performance is flawless. I do not miss DRM. Next in line is fellow-traveler Cannonical .... sucking  cyclopians dicks over "...think of the children ...". Strangly enough the Linux ecosystem has become too difficult and fragmented for the unsupported home user to admin. Happened  probably U_16..04 .  True for me .... mebby not for you. My choice after 15 years  is to leave systemd behind, and install Devuan.  Ironically   with  expert help from GOOG.ai . It's proven itself to me with with ranging chats ... varying from  entanglement in multi-dimensional spaces to 'where are the cage screw-holes for the SATA ssd in my G55mobo' ?

Like every solution --- go after the source. Find those able to code  LLMs ... cut them down like bad weeds. Just like if your bought some bad soap ... that gave you an itch ... you go after the soap-makers who brewed up that itch. If they are Randists who claim their freedom requires them to create itching --- then put your iron boot-heel thru their teeth.

Human being do not want "contemporary tooling" ... when that  means getting fucked in the azzwhole by  *.ai .  GenAI is super useful for .... sexual perverts who range the internet nightly ,  degenerate IP thieves who range the great literature nightly,  13 YO porn posters who have yet to grab-an-ass , agentic agents of tyrannous foreign countries who envy the product of straight white Christian cultures while they  ( praise Allah ) enslave women and bugger the boyz.  They all use *.ai tools ! So much for contemporary tooling. Better get out your pen-knife and slide rule and chalk + slate ! And remember how to walk up to a strange, but appealing  young woman and  without a smirk say ...' my dear, you look wonderful tonight'.

I don't understand the concept of surcharge.   My view:  if a company spends more money to perform its work, then it increases prices to customers.  A simple financial decision has been made.   There's nothing "sur"charge about it. The "charge" increases because the cost to do business increases. What is the financial "trick" that make **charge increase** a less favorable noun/verb  than surcharge to specify a financial decision. If you say ... 'it's an additional charge to ...' ... then I say so is every cost of production ! Or it it just bullshite.

"No- I'll grant them this: They eat their own shit."

Sir, that is a frightening, truly perverse thought. As corruptingly false or meaningless as Nazi or neo-liberal memes . No rational person could  in-good-faith possibly believe them. 

Woops. That should be  ~100x less .  Especially at cryogenic temps. So sorry.  %^[

At  high temps  equilibrium concentration of oxygen in  solid copper is O(10^-4) % by weight. If BOTE serves well, then  "Oxygen free" would be 100x less than that.

Nice point. Historically computer media ( magazine/website/Blog/Newspapers(San Jose Mercury ! ) was frequented BECAUSE they had pages & pages of ads for novel computer products ... and job ads .   Ads were frequently very technical ... infomercial was NOT a "bad word" then.  I could do with THOSE kind of ads on /.  as if current owners had a clue .  They don't want bits & bytes & pointers ... they want <klickbait> .  Is it any wonder I run for my GOOG.ai whenever my Linux systems misbehave ? Just concrete noun active verb Queens English  spoken; with focus  straight to the point where I stumbled ; no green-beaning whine  no Trotsky-slut spew no TDS rants  no Chi.com apologetics  no   nanny-state lectures. Yes, I Do wish SlashDot had flows of advo-struction  money, and let those nekbeards run wild to support ( accidentally ) my oh-so-modest (say lusr) technical skills.  I mean how-the-hell do you think I learned Babout LibreWolf & Devuan ?

Chi.com/CCP  apologists have been manifest and evident on SlashDot  for a long time. Pretty clear they have infested the "moderation" process big-time;  you know that's not accidental. Been years -- as a computer usr/hobbyist --  since I  daily referenced /. for its technical content. Bet /. could clean-out the sock-puppets, but the loss of income would get some C-Suites fired. BTW/// Does CCP really pay $0.33 for every pander-post ? Sounds like an income stream for us old  retired paleo-STEMS. How do they pay? Bytecoyn trash or real  bank account deposits ?

produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

Totally agree with your apt comparison. Now, in the same vein, are message forums liable for statements made by its users?

In my experience ,  any post to the right of THE GUARDIAN drivel  risks being  removed. Any post to the right of Pat Buchanan WILL be removed.