Fu-u-u-u-u-ck

Nvidia is loaning money to AI companies to purchase Nvida GPUs, AI companies are renting out racks to other AI companies, folks are leaning they can run slightly smaller versions of the models on in-house systems.

[actress Clara Peller: "Where's the profits!]

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

I'd rather not.

Huh.

Anyways

IBM couldn't get a deal with Nvidia to use Nvidia $$$ to buy Nvidia systems and then 'Step 2. ???' so everyone profits?!

"Missed it by so close!"

– Obligatory Mariner Smart quote

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.

They were all crooked and misaligned.

Oh, you must mean Pepe, my little mule.

I wonder what other nuc-u-lar powered devices we can chuck up there?

Muh cabbageses!!!

Should go back to the Greek:

Ouranos [Oor-rah-noes]

You have 3 similar documented fixes for situation X.

Wisdom is knowing which fix to apply and why it should be used.

I suppose you can quantify each fix by frequency of use.

I think the buggy whips go under the marketing name 'ASP Electro-Baton [A,B,C]'.