There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

This headline sounds like something you'd hear coming from a news report on a TV in the background near the start of a horror movie.

Now MAGAs will have to troll the old-fashioned way: type Fox talking points into social media.

Are you talking as a language per programming productivity, or per security?

Don flips faster than his hair in the wind.

not very bright, but patient and determined, happily manipulating humans to get its way.

The problem is not overall capacity. It's that they're all crowding into the same areas. Most places in the US (let alone the world) have nobody building datacentres anywhere near them. They all want to go into the places with not merely cheap power, but cheap property taxes and other incentives. Some places will tax everything, down to the servers themselves, whereas some will only tax the land and the building shell, not even the power interconnects or cooling systems.

When everyone wants to rush into the same place, it overtaxes the local grid; they have to build not just more generation, but power lines, substations, etc. And all of this has to go through permitting. There's no real limit to how much generation can be built, but none of the datacentre operations want to wait, because they're all worried about missing out on the opportunity. Hence the reason that they try to come up with stopgaps, like installing their own generators, or... this approach.

ECL MV1 / Lambda is 3,5 miles from the Googleplex. And 10-12 miles further to the southeast, Santa Clara is one of the densest datacentre hubs on Earth.

If you care about where they actually live, and distances to datacentres:

Sundar Pichai: Los Altos Hills, CA: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 5-6mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub (CoreSite SV9, Vantage, Colovore), 9-11 miles

Larry Page: Palo Alto, Ca: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 4-5mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub, 10-12mi.

Sergey Brin: Los Altos Hills / Bay Area: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 5-7mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub, 9-12mi

Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind CEO): North London, UK: London Docklands Hub (Telehouse / Equinix), 7-9mi; Slough Data Center Hub (Equinix, Yondr), 18-20mi

I don't know about you, but they're all way closer to datacentres than I am.

I used Airbnb for the first time this year.

It was fine. Cabin in the Smokies, the only requests were to put dirty dishes in the dishwasher and start it (they provided dishwasher pills), put any furniture that we'd moved back where it was, and put the trash in the bear-resistant cans outside. I asked about washing the sheets, they said let the cleaners do it. I did use the washer and dryer a few times, they provided detergent and softener.

No extra fees for anything, the up front price was what I paid.

If I was staying in a city, I'd use a hotel. But I had a conference in the area, and I thought a place with lots of space and a hot tub would be nice. It was. It included a full kitchen complete with cooking equipment and a smoker grill. The price was comparable to a hotel room for the week. The only camera was at the front door, it was disclosed, and if any others were hidden they were hidden really well, including from a network scan.

Either they are right and we can all retire early and live in a socialistic Trek-ish paradise, or the AI bubble will pop and we'll have yet another nasty recession. There's not a lot in between because Wallstreet is pricing and valuating for the 1st scenario.

or STFU about PHP.