According to this promotional web site it looks like they are planning to self-power.

On the contrary, electricity matters and they should be close to a source of power.

Why close? So they don't need to run new transmission lines to connect to the grid.

Fortunately for AI data center owners, the sun is close. If you have enough additional contiguous land you can build a solar + battery plant to meet most of your needs. If you can tolerate downtime when the batteries are drained, you won't need high-power transmission lines at all.

What's that? You didn't buy enough real estate for your AI server farm AND a solar plant AND a battery farm? Sorry, poor planning on your part doesn't generate any sympathy from me.

Corrupt governments around the world are saying "hold my beer."

You say this like it's a bad thing. Far more useful is "how many people does lung cancer kill each year."

If it kills 100 people worldwide each year but all other kinds of cancer kill 99 or fewer each, then "meh" or maybe even "wow, that's great news, now we can focus our death-prevention efforts on other causes of death."

Ditto any late-1990s-era web-bulletin-board system that had a notifications system.

Teens will find a way to socialize, and they will use media to do it.

Take my home heater/AC system for example: It's got a handful of wires that lead the thermostat. I can plug in a basic mid-20th-century thermostat to it or I can plug in a 2026 top-of-the-line network-enabled-with-AI-included device.

Tractors and cars should be like that.

Some conversations should never be done using devices that you or your organization doesn't fully understand and control.

If this means meeting in person or going to fixed locations that have secure communications channels, so be it.

If this means using only using devices that your organization can verify are secure enough to meet its needs, so be it.

The Pirate Bay: The Movie coming soon to a torrent site near you.

Look at most instruction manuals. Look at most architectural blueprints. Look at a schematic. Look at a recipe book. Look at most other "work products" that amount to human-readable instruction manuals.

Now look for the "why". "Why are we doing this in the first place." "Why did we do it this way vs. the various alternatives." Etc.

Sometimes you will see the "why" but most of the time you won't.

At least code has the advantage of having a mechanism to put the documentation near the relevant portion of the final work product.

Sounds like the "for air" version of shark skin.

And if you take out macOS as well, then what?

If it's not, it soon will be.

The energy density is 48.3âWh/kg.

Lithium-ion is better than 100 Wh/kg.

Imagine doubling the weight of your battery pack - or more. Probably not a problem for fixed-location batteries, but it's an issue if they are part of a moving vehicle.

Companies that haven't done so already will stop making new products that are impacted by viral licenses.

I'm waiting for a well-known human author to "learn the style" of AI well enough to craft a "good enough to win an award" AI-unassisted story that all the major AI-detectors flag as "very high probability this is written by an AI."

Of course it probably won't happen with any well-known author. Learning someone - or someTHING - else's style could be hard to un-learn. You don't want your future books being tainted by the "this smells like AI" stink.