Promotion is reward. If promotion is possible then people will lie their way up.

Yup, expect many random panels to be punctured in data-centre lifetime. As each PV cell fails the reverse blocking diodes would allow the string to continue providing power at a reduced voltage. Each cell is about 0.5 V. but the diodes are usually across a series of 20 or so cells. So 10 Volts would be lost per puncture.

The only reason any of this is even a discussion is because of insanity with AI bubble. Once that pops, the talk of space based solutions will vanish.

I know that both TechPowerUp and TechSpot serve some of their ads as articles. They look like news items at first glance. And of course they don't get blocked. Or at lest not by the anti-tracker tools that I use.

Download???!! That's SOOOO inconvenient. You've lost 99% of the fakes right there. I know when I talk about downloading from YouTube, most people just glaze over.

Of course 1% can still be massive numbers.

I'm not in any way in favour, but your reasoning is incorrect. Efficiency is about doing work with an amount of energy, before it becomes heat. Not about how much heat that can be dumped.

On the energy supply side of the equation, it's very much limited by the area of solar panels. And conveniently, the larger those collectors are the larger the area of shade is available for heat dumping as well.

As for speed of light considerations. All of the proposals will be for LEO. Starlink being the poster child here.

I can't see how doing data-centres like this could ever be economical but that's the thinking.

Being a smokescreen of talk is highly likely. Same as building new fission nukes.

Especially given how easy it is to just drop down more PV on land.

Sadly, that's more likely the individual people at Apple, rather than Apple per se. Same story at M$ and every other corporation. The internal fighting for higher pay means the individuals are stealing and backstabbing each other within.

There's the mass of unlicensed scraping too. But that's another story.

Using flashing lights is exactly working with the public. Placing road cones for temporary road narrowing is working with the public. Standing in the road and directing traffic is working with the public. Placing signage for diversions is working with the public.

If the, so called, AI can't deal with those workings then it has no place driving on roads.

PS: The one thing that is a certainty in emergencies is the failure of the cellular network.

... using C3PO, in the WOPR room.

to me means a peripheral controller like USB, SATA, PCIe, SSD, Monitor, GPU, mouse, printer. Certainly not all the hardware combined. I'd call what they're talking about an Installation or OS ID.

Of course, no big surprise that M$ behaviour is on the dark side. That's always been their nature. Their products should always be avoided.

The real reason is because LLMs are crap and aren't achieving the gains that they predicted. Which, as you've pointed out, is also going to bite them hard for overspending on the data-centres.

There's no indication of improved productivity for general LLMs beyond being an expensive pirating engine.

Only specialised LMMs that are carefully curated with experienced human made accurate, and presumably paid for, data have been making inroads on productivity.

A lot of island hopping was done during ice-ages. And jumping on rafts for one-way trips isn't difficult either.

That's all they're saying. With a big shrug on productivity.