Nah, I don't think that will help the acceleration. Building them out keeps the money shifting and prolongs the frauds. I don't know how we get ram relief at this point. The economy will collapse entirely before that's allowed to happen.

Despite electing a communist mayor in their largest city, it seems like the state government is making a solid good move here. We already have way more capacity than China. I high doubt any of the current model hosting providers are anywhere near capacity or have growth curves even approaching them. It's all investment fraud and NY is doing the right thing to put a hard break on the newest Tulip Mania

No, I think this guy's analysis is pretty sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I mean, you can hear how bad it is if you just look for local news clips of people complaining. I have a high school friend who is a logistics manager involve in plant construction and he's been contracted by his company to several of these data centers. He said the water stuff is overblown, but the noise, energy and general pollution are not; not to mention the scale and speed of the build-outs.

and just look at the citizen protests. They're very intense, and the local politicians (who are obviously bought and paid for by tech companies) and trying to act like the people protesting aren't even local:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think it's worse than you realize.

Social media harms adults as much as it does kid. What defines social media anyway? A forum? An AOL chat room? Neocities? What is off limits now? Could a kid even make a Geocities or Tripod page today with these limits?

These types of laws go down the path where every website or app you produce will require registration to the government permanently tying what you put up to your identity. It has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. That's the lie they sell. Facebook was literally started the day after DARPA shutdown Digital LifeLog, it was funded by Peter Thiel and it has direct ties to US intelligence agencies. It was always meant to control us, and I don't see how the EU really cares about meaningfully stopping that.

This is about control of adults. The OP's statement is not "objectively false." Its 100% true. This is the means by which you stop dissent, starting with kids.

Wow, that's a big change from their views back in 2014:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Carpet factories use more water and dump more waste. The water is an issue, mainly because they're pulling aquifers in the desert and the "closed loop" systems still have evaporation. That water leaves the watershed and travels hundreds of miles. Sure you can't destroy water, but drinking water is rare and difficult. Still, the water issues are not what people should be focusing on. A lot of that is not the core issue.

The core issues include electricity, building resources and noise. The low frequency sounds from the new generation of data centers is absolutely terrible, and they're building them just miles from where people live. There are countless videos were you can clearly hear them. I live near an airport, but airport sounds stop at some point, and people know what they're getting into when they buy. I hope these people recoup massive money from lawsuits, because there's no way they'll be able to sell their homes.

It's not just the surveillance state and the coding/image generations. I think there's something way more sinister we're not being told. There's no reason for this much capacity otherwise.

I mean, it might be propaganda, but is it wrong? I think people are pretty hostile to these things in their backyards to begin with. They're not creating ragebait, they're taking a serious, existing political issue and capitalizing on it.

Now the great irony is China doing this when they have their own horrifically worse massive surveillance state, but make no mistake: these Data Centers are for the AI surveillance state.

They're not using all that compute to make cat videos and write code. Our end uses can't even account for a fraction of the capacity they're building. These companies are lying to us about what it's all for.

But it's been lossy compressed into a big parameter store and you can't reproduce it exactly, so it's not the same ... also that means JPEGs a 50% compression and DVD encodes of BluRays should be totally legal for anyone to sell.

There are several copyright cases going through the courts right now. I have little doubt one will eventually request certiorari from SCOTUS. High courts in Europe might rule differently. The hypocrisy of all these companies is deafening. I hope someone just leaks GPT-5.x and/or Fable-5 at some point.

If I go will there be trouble?

I guess add it to the list?

https://killedbyopenai.org/

This is what's so dumb about all this "social media is bad for children" bullshit. It's bad for adults! I deleted all my major social media in 2021:

https://battlepenguin.com/phil...

I've know people who have said, "You've probably seen this on social media," pulling out their phone. I'm like, "How? How would I see your video on social media?!" They just automatically assume we're friends on Facebook, even though they've never seen me online or never seen a post, because I'm literally not on there. Even when I had it I never went to the live feed. I'd always go to my page first and then individual pages. The way people use social media by default has disconnected us for individuals.

My current phone doesn't run Google services of even microG:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

There's almost no reason for me to ever get my phone out, unless I want to show a photo to someone. Sometimes I'll reach for it and realize it is still in my car. I use it for photos, podcasts, music and texts and that's about it. Over five days of battery life most weeks!

I absolutely cannot stand people who invite me out, and we're in a bar or restaurant or at an event, and they are constantly on their phones. It's like, "Dude, we're here. Live. This live right here!" Those angry tweets will still be there later.

Facebook was funded by Peter Theil, has ties to US intelligence agencies and just happened to launch the day DARPA shut down Digital LifeLog (just a coincidence I'm sure). These tools are not your friends. Stay off them, and instill those values in your children if you want any hope of them escaping the coming surveillance state and the current trend to narcissistic broadcast culture and society.

Kinda terrifying these pressure vessels ended up on their coast. If they fell off during a launch window, coastal authorities in most nations do try to keep the launch path clear to prevent any potential harm. But if these fell off an existing satellite and survived, that could have been deadly if they hit a cargo ship. I am curious if they're going to release the name of the owner. There's not much as far as launches around Australia. There's RocketLab over in Auckland, New Zealand. I have a buddy who worked there and they've done some amazing stuff. Could be one of theirs.

Weird snowman brah

Yea it sounds like marketing fluff. Unless they can gather a lot of solar power, it seems like any attempt to thrust to the moon would take several months or years. I wonder if they even have such a test planned? Maybe at the end of their chart in the "if we somehow have a lot of left over money" phase.

At this point, nobody truly at the top of this space is expecting any kind of return at all. This is endgame for the economy as a whole. Sam "Alternate-man" and Dario are likely fully away of the government and banking interests that are pushing hard for a total and complete financial collapse to replace the dollar, euro, ruble and other major currencies with new digital currencies; money that can be programmed to only be spendable on certain categories of goods.

The collapse is coming soon, but it won't be what anyone is expecting. Our economy is about to evaporate.