Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.
The problem is Fraud, Grift and run away Government spending can not co exist so they will need to do something different at some point.

"Groundbreaking" never was MS's forte, they typically let startups test ideas and then buy or swipe an idea when it catches on.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

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P1?!? Is that you?

If today's LLM's "automation posing as AI" is a wrong track this might be a good thing.

A Dyson sphere would have significant environmental effects too, and it's equally likely to be built.

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I was just looking for Milton's Swingline stapler.

"This is rare in the world of today's policing." BS when you look at the number of interactions police have nation wide, the # going bad are very low. The bad ones are the exception not the norm!

The launch pads are not in outer space.

Seems kind of premature, the knuckleheads that are trying to do orbital datacenters have about as much chance of developing a feasible, economic orbital data center as I do in being crowned Miss America.

Boeing invented and tested the concept in the 90's.

I would assume the likes Waymo collect and perhaps produce training video on such. If not, they are lazy.

RubberneckGPT?