Plus, gotta run SkyNet on something... why not put it out in the woods where nobody can get to it.
Hmm... wonder if SkyNet and The Matrix could co-exist on the same server?

See: https://slashdot.org/comments....

Bet those 10 solar panels really help out... this place isn't an Amazon warehouse in size.
And... https://solarpanelquestions.co...
So, if it's a 4 acre building figure roughly 3.5 (maybe less because of rooftop HVAC), let's say 3k to 3.5k solar panels. How thick is the roof to support all that added weight (bet those panels aren't light)? At 62lbs. per panel, 3,500 panels... roughly 100 tons on the roof.

I think this quote says it all (in Jeff Goldblum's voice, of course):
"Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now [bangs on the table] you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Well...
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

We got along just fine for how long with computers that didn't have AI... what changed?
I forget... how'd that work out for Ford https://slashdot.org/story/26/... ?

Very right. It's the same as happens with Data Centers... lots of jobs to build the place, but in the end, it's a dozen people to maintain the place.

Minor correction: improperly maintained ICE vehicles.

But, yes... you are right.
Sodium might be safer-ish, but it's not 100%.

The people who don't take care of their cars are the ones who are rich enough to get a new one anytime they want.

The rest of us want our car to last as long as possible (long as it runs and the frame still holds it together and the heater works, I'm fine driving a rust bucket).

There's always some way in, given enough time and resources.

I do wonder if the camera(s) have IR filters... maybe mount IR LEDs on your shirt and normal glasses to blind the camera.

WTF did you say?
Are you drunk or stoned or something?

What clean energy plant? The polluting NatGas plant?

And, NatGas pollutes, and is a limited resource.

The big question: is this really needed? Is it going to make things better or just spew forth slop and hallucinations and help kids cheat more while stealing all the data it can without paying for it? Did we need AI in the first place?

Just how big do you think this place is going to be? That'd be a lot of sq. footage of roof-mounted solar to power the place (not to mention, if you go the solar route, you're probably gonna want to store power for those long nights, so tons of batteries, and you need more solar output than the DC needs so you can charge the batteries).

There might be a way to burn the waste in fusion reactors as fuel, otherwise... launch it on a proven 100% reliable rocket aimed towards the sun.

They'll say; "That's what the battery backup system is for".
Okay, so a battery system to supply 5GW for a data center for (let's say) 8 hours would be how big? In case of cloudy or windless weather, you'd want it to run for a day or two (forget about the grid... that's wind and solar, also), so the battery center would have to be 3-6X as big... lot of batteries where a failure could potentially cascade.

Totally agree.

Scale that up to power a country (say, the U.S), and it's gonna quickly become unfeasible... plus, the replica of the US offshore for all the batteries to power everything at night. Would there be enough non-farmland non-city land available for the panels and Wind turbines to power the US?

There's only been a handful of nuclear meltdowns.

As the weather gets more severe and storms get more wild, would the Wind turbines and solar panels survive intact... or, is there a warehouse nearby housing a bunch of spare panels and turbine parts?

You, of course, are assuming that someone who doesn't understand legalese, is going to spend the afternoon reading 20-pages of legal double-speak.