Thatâs not an independent thinker. Thatâ(TM)s someone who routinely doubts everything. But as Henri Poincaré already observed more than 100 years ago: To doubt everything and to believe everything are considered two equally convenient strategies, both of which relieve us of the necessity of thinking or reflection. (And I know, a witty saying proves nothing.)

Everytime I run the output through the Test test suite.

Does anyone have an example where there is electricity rationing due to data centers overloading the electrical grid?

The magic elusive skills way to "never find" a "qualified US worker" needs to be closed for common positions which have thousands of US citizens working.

Supply and demand

Company - "It's extremely hard and rare to find a worker with skill XYZ"
Company - "We cannot find a us citizen with that skill even though we looked for X months"
Company - "We found a 'qualified' worker 'by chance' just graduating from a US university"
Company - "To be fair we will pay them at the 50% of the prevailing wage for an entry level or 1 job title above entry level worker pay"

Supply of the workers is "very rare" yet pay for the workers is average at best.

Don't the corporate CEOs make the same argument that there are so few of them that they all need to be paid millions by year?

Supply and demand.

For example H1B visas should not be granted for entry level QA tester jobs.

The "editorial independence" appears to be in the same vein as how large corporations have faculty member or two from the major business schools (Harvard, Columbia, Chicago) for the academic's expert guidance. Something that is unconnected to the business school's publication of a top 5 business or management journal.

We need to plan on what to do once AI does not need all the data centers, electricity and cooling.

What is being built is based on a continual increase in compute needs and does not take into account the inevitable 100x, 1000x , ... reduction in compute cost due to better hardware or algorithms.

Fully expect at this minute that there are dozens of labs using AI to reverse engineer everything from network edge devices, motherboards, GPU support chips, firmware images, heat sink and dissipation designs, ....

One wonders how much faster (100x ?) will it be to reverse engineer critical software with AI since the AI can reverse engineer, fuzz, code, test the new code vs the original all automated by AI.

Speculation: Microsoft will be 'investing' in major countries around the world to have a local to the country cloud and AI compute.

It will allow Microsoft to sell to the government and corporations when the country passes the eventual law requiring data storage, personal data, government cloud and AI models to reside within the country for economic and security reasons.

Second speculation: Microsoft and other world's largest consumer of CPUs, memory chips, GPUs, computer motherboards, networking chips, etc. will have supply chain shortages crippling their business in 2 years if the AI use/consumption keeps growing.

The net result of 1986 to today of politics on both sides being name calling, "we're not evil like the other party", "let's accommodate and celebrate even more behavior" and "it's not my money they are wasting" is

- no progress on policy benefiting average US citizens
- a steady increase in government spending and debt burden on each US citizen
- elected officials who do nothing to help average people and practice aging in place or office holder for life
- news reporters who parrot the same old tired worn out issues and the same tired old worn out talking points
- a persistent and steady decline in purchasing power by nearly everyone at less than top 20% of income year after year since 1975
- a broken contaminated food and water supply with *controversial* negative effects on reproductive health (especially boys and men due to plastics and water containing birth control hormones and endocrine disrupter chemicals)

And making it acceptable on an industry wide scale to package heated food in plastic lined cans, acidic foods in plastic containers, cook foods in plastic bags in restaurants) when heating food in plastic causes plastic chemicals to leach into the food.

And letting petroleum based dyes be used in common foods for 60 years.

Predict: There will be venture capital firms using some whistleblower type law to file legal malpractice complaints on an industry wide scale in a year or two.

1. Get all the court filings in a state or federal court for the last 2 years
2. Scan via AI for all legal precedent citations
3. Find legal citations which do not exist
4. File complaints with the state bar (lawyer licensing agency), the court itself, state/federal judicial misconduct agencies
5. Find the opposing legal parties and class action sue the lawyers belonging to large law firms who used AI fake case citations for malpractice in civil court
6. Pursue disbarment proceedings against lawyers found to have filed court documents which cite non-existent legal cases

They bar for life people found to have done illegal financial trading at Wall Street firms. banks and public corporations.

It's even more complicated. German law treats the grid as "copper plate", and ignores all regional differences. If a wind park in Northern Germany offers electricity for 8 ct/kWh, then a consumer in Southern Germany is allowed to buy that power and is entitled to get it delivered via the grid. And if the grid can't handle the load because of weak interconnectivity, then a gas turbine in Southern Germany will start and generate the power for 18 ct/kWh, but the consumer only pays 8 ct. The 10 ct/kWh difference is paid by all consumers with higher energy prices.

For Southern Germany, this is quite the deal, because they can now operate expensive gas turbines, and get them subsidized at least in part by electricity consumers in Northern Germany with higher energy prices, while the cheap energy generated in Northern Germany is switched off, as the energy on the books is sold already, but the electricity is generated somewhere else. But because Southern states profiteer from the situation right now, there is much resistance to changes in the law, which would make energy in the South more expensive, while Northern states would get a relief.

Dual ISA? The z processors (z13 right now) were multi-ISA from the very beginning. You can load them with different microcodes, and they will turn into different processors, CP, zIIP, zAAP, IFL...

IBM sold off their massively cheap commodity stuff long ago. The eServer series are now Lenovo, like the laptop business.

You're confusing the importance of avoiding Kessler syndrome in LEO with the difficulty of causing Kessler syndrome. GEO debris can potentially remain there for millions of years before interactions between the gravitational pull of the Sun, Earth, and Moon sufficiently perturb it. LEO debris remains for weeks to months. You have to have many orders of magnitude more debris in LEO to trigger Kessler Syndrome, where the rate of collisions exceeds the rate of debris loss.

The fact that a LEO Kessler Syndrome would also be short is something that exists on top of that.

It's also worth nothing that not only are modern satellites not only vastly better at properly disposing of themselves than they were in the 1970s when Kessler Syndrome was proposed, but they're also vastly better at avoiding debris strikes. All of these factors are multiplicative together.

Israel tried it with Hamas back in the early 2000s. They killed at least three successive Hamas leaders within a few month. What they did not achieve was to crush Hamas. So no. The U.S. will be long out of bombs before the supply of new ayatollahs will run dry.