"As seen in the standard spectrum of female romance books, ranging from 50 shades of gray to morning glory milking farm."

Most romance novels are way tamer than those

Yes, but it's still going to be cheaper to pipe the power out to someplace cooler than to pipe the heat out.

Just in case we are lazy? You mean because you are lazy and disingenuous.

Texas would have been blue already if not for gerrymandering. It took an unusual election to overcome it. It will probably go back if Democrats don't fix the maps.

It's an issue which is "solved" either by using lots of power or using lots of water. Those are both shitty solutions. Servers don't belong in a catbox.

This whole story stinks. I believe in the idea that he slept with reports, but he also just coincidentally had an affair with someone who was in a position to receive controlled parts and it was announced the day after Trump shorted NVDA? Too many coincidences.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

I actually believe them! I had an issue months ago on Azure where a VM wouldn't scale up or down properly. You had to restart it, you had to scale it, restart it again, pray, and occasionally, it would scale. I showed our CSM / CSA this issue, and logged bugs against it, and was told it was not an issue. They denied this was happening repeatedly, and looky looky looky what happened.

s/impotent/complicit/

Sure, but there's at least two kinds of luck, the kind that comes after doing something smart, and the kind that comes after fucking up. Shouldn't we give people credit for the first kind, where (for this example) they bet on reconfigurability and reusability?

For me the question is, whose idea was it, did he have to be talked into it, etc.

Someone's grumpy because their Outlook won't load.

Why did God ostensibly go overboard just to amuse humans 4.3 Billion years after he formed the Earth and a fuckton of other creatures before humans arrived to be amused? The Christian Right Wingnuts will have no problem squaring this account with Bible since they can square anything given enough time and and those funny mushrooms God in his infinite wisdom has also provided.

I doubt the U.S. State Dept. ever gave a thought about him being compromised. The current crew is about as bright as a concussed troll. I think the board simply looked at the ramifications of shipping chips surreptitiously to China, seeing as Singapore is waaaaay too small use them all, and concluded Huang knew. He thought he didn't have anything to worry about because our corrupt Dept. of Commerce head, Lutnick, has already shown he (Lutnick) didn't care about a bit of sex on the side (his Epstein connections) and has already shown the only thing he (Lutnick, and his minder in the White House, el Bunko, and in turn his minder in the Kremlin, Putin) cares about is money.

The board however dipped their collective dick in some water and waved it in the air to see which way the wind was blowing and figured that the newly elected Blue Maggot-Eating Blob was not going to stop feeding. So they pulled the plug on him. Plus, it had already become an issue with Wall Street that having a feudal lord riding shotgun over a company with Nvidia's tentacles into damn near everything was becoming a problem for them and their stock portfolios. The also looked at Elmo and saw all his loot couldn't buy political squat; and that he too had hitched his ass to el Bunko in the White House.

And why should he have worried. From one of my previous posts:

From Yahoo Finance: Trump’s Nvidia Stock Purchases: Financial disclosures revealed that Donald Trump purchased between $500,000 and $1 million (with some reports noting up to several million) in Nvidia stock around the same timeframe his administration weighed key technology and China policy decisions. The Trump Organization and White House have maintained that Trump's assets are managed in a blind trust by his children with no conflicts of interest.

From the Tax Policy Center: The Trump administration allowed Nvidia and AMD to resume or license certain AI chip exports to China (such as H20 and H200 series chips), under an arrangement where the companies reportedly share a percentage (such as a 25% or 15% cut/fee) of those China revenues with the U.S. government—an arrangement criticized by legal and policy experts as a quasi-export tax.

Also: Nvidia donated $25 million toward the planned White House ballroom project associated with President Donald Trump (that we know about).

Re the energy usage, Elmo doesn't give a flying rat's ass about the environment and will happily spin up gas or coal plants to supply power. The trick now will be getting them approved. However, I doubt the newly elected blue people are raging environmentalists. And we still do not know how susceptible they are to corruption of which the R's in those states are well practiced. The lobbyists have not be diselected.

I think you're downplaying #1 a bit, no quibbles about #2 though.

I don't know if Huang deserves all of the credit for the direction, but if he does, then I think he deserves a lot of credit for that. CUDA is brilliant because they have been able to move their existing system forward on it, for example by rebasing PhysX on it and thereby not having to reimplement that.