There's no minimum size requirement for "datacenter". My Raspberry Pi is a datacenter if I say it is.

Yeah but when was the last time you heard a story about Windsurf?

They monetize rocket launch tests today by tossing starlinks out the window. They will further monetize rocket launch tests by tossing AI datacenters out the window.

And then remember that they can maneuver to avoid collisions. Imagine there were only 10k cars driving on earth and they could all see each other coming. How many collisions do you expect in a year? I don't expect very many.

Countries that welcome immigrants are able to increase the tax base, and supply critical labor that locals don't want to do, including taking care of the elderly.

But you take in too many, too fast, AND if you allow those that are diametrically opposed to your values and way of life.....YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY.

and that's what we're seeing now across EU and trying to combat in the US.

Yes we'll all have to go back to not having AI any day now. That's why I'm using twice as much while I still can!

There's still plenty of people with access to Fable/Mythos. You sound deranged TBH.

It beats my phone TBH.

I feel like nowadays you can just go: "Claude, add a mcp-server". Or "Claude, add a skill to do so and so"

You don't have to be a neuroscientist to know that tobacco was addictive, you just need to have ever jonesed for a cigarette.

So what exactly is the problem?

There have been datacenters for decades. All of a sudden it's a problem not because of noise pollution, but because of some imaginary threat that nobody can quite name. And hey, I'm not even arguing for terrestrial DC's. I'm just saying it's irrational NIMBY bullshit (but we have to take it seriously anyway).

It's just a matter of being fully reusable. They'll get it down to about what airlines charge for checked bags and you'll still be saying it's not enough

It has to be space because even if you had no NIMBY bullshit to deal with at all, there's still a limit to how much solar power you can generate on Earth.

The US solved this problem 150 years ago. First with the observation that immigrants acculturate. Second with the acceptance that elements of their culture are going to get melded in to form a new culture. Culture is never static, anyway, it always drifts and morphs. Immigration just changes it a bit faster. But it's good! This ongoing immigrant-driven culture change is what made the US a superpower. Embrace it.

Indeed is USED to work this way....and if so, sure, cool.

The trouble is...it no longer works that way, there is no more 'melting pot'.

For various reasons, one being we've let WAY too many in at once....they do not come here to become Americans and assimilate, they are here to take over and make a Mini-whatever country they came from .

They segregate, they do NOT learn the language and in Muslim cases, they try to change our laws to fit their religion.

In the old days, you didn't see protests with migrants waving flags of their home land, but instead were waving the US flag....

So, no that old way isn't working....and if we don't stop the influx....we risk losing our country even more than we risk losing it right now.