Yeah, I guess that it's pretty easy to pass a data center ban in a state where nobody really wants to build a data center. The real estate in New York is too expensive for building a data center, and the electricity is too expensive to run it and the labor too expensive to build it. And even if you were willing to pay that, the taxes are going to be high and the environmental regulations will be a pain.

Now, if you were able to pass a data center ban in a state like Virginia or Texas... THAT would be meaningful.

I started posting less on Facebook when I realized that the only things that I posted that were getting likes were pictures of my kids. And most of them were from older relatives who were too lazy to visit their grand kids.

This shit used to be fun, but now it's more social obligation and I don't want to play this game anymore.

I thought that the 2026 news narrative on work is that everyone is going to be unemployed soon because their jobs were replaced by AI and robots.

We were all going to be sitting on a beach collecting our UBI checks while OpenAI and Anthropic compete to run the country. That sounds more enjoyable them having to retrain to get into the healthcare and housebuilding trades, anyway.

That old Somers site has to be pretty picked over and vandalized by this point. Urban explorers should probably check out the old IBM data center in Southbury instead, which wasn't abandoned until late 2024.

I wonder if my old OS/2 mouse pad is still in the file cabinet where I left it...

Yeah.... I can't imagine Disney+ or Hulu giving away a meaningful amount of free content considering that they already suckered their users into paying $15 a month for maybe 20 hours a month of fresh content that contains about 20% advertising. It wasn't always like that, but they slowly enshittified the product knowing that kids are already hooked on it.

Maybe it's a ploy to get people to watch the first episode or two of a new series in the hopes that they will get them hooked? I know that Apple TV does that already.

Don't forget China and Russia, which have their own military satellites in orbit.

I'd imagine that the EU does as well, although those are probably more multi-purpose communication and weather observation satellites.

Maybe they should have become Microsoft CoPilot evangelists instead, it probably would have saved their jobs if they used an excessive amount of AI buzzwords.

Like most nuclear projects, I expect it to be either cancelled or still stuck in approvals 10 years from now.

I'm sure that the NIMBY's will fight back even harder than usual on this one, and throw every environmental and regulatory approval roadblock they can at it.

I just wish that Slashdot would stop posting paywalled articles from sites like the New York Times or The Verge in their "news" stories.

They're so prevalent now that it makes me wonder if Slashdot is trying to run some sort of referral kickback scheme. Slashdot probably doesn't have enough readers left to make that profitable, though, so I'll just blame excessive laziness instead of malice.

I wonder if they could find a way to repurpose the CPU, RAM, and storage those thousands of unsold Meta Quest headsets they probably still have in stock. You could probably build a pretty cool cluster out of them.

Hey... if they offer better prices than AWS, I'd be willing to give it a try.

As the baby boomers who still use Facebook continue to die off, I'd imagine that they'll have plenty of extra data center capacity to sell on the cheap.

Bitcoin used to have a strong correlation with the stock market, but not over the past year. While the stock market continued to go up, Bitcoin tanked by 50%.

Bitcoin seems to have it's own weird 4 year price cycle, and we're in the middle of the "price crash" part of that cycle right now. It will be interesting to see if it recovers this time.

Hey now... not everyone on X is a racist or a bigot. They also have crypto fanboys and engagement bait trolls as well!

Wasn't SteamOS released before the Steam Deck even came out?

Sure, it wasn't every good back then, but it was certainly available even though it wasn't officially supported.

True, but it's something to think about when discussing SpaceX's plan for adding thousands of AI data centers in space.

I doubt that they were going to get launch costs down to the point where that became profitable anyway, but the idea of an errant Chinese or Russian rocket accidentally or "accidentally" destroying a few of them is probably something that SpaceX investors are thinking about right now. They're too busy buying up those shares at insanely inflated prices.