similar to Lisp and Java machines or transputers running Occam

They could have done this a year ago before the AI tax made CPU & storage spike from extra expensive to unaffordable.
Happy now?

"telling engineers to focus on business results rather than maximizing AI usage"
why does that even need to be said?
especially for a longstanding for-profit, publicly traded corporation

Capitol One did a review of several HUNDRED accounts held by the Trump Org in 2021 and closed them, tell Mango Mussolini he had 90 days to move them elsewhere but later granted him an extension.
By contract, they had the right to do so without explanation and he or any other person with similar terms could close or move their accounts without notice.
Instead of simply complying, he decided to sue.
Thanks to that boneheaded move it's now known that the reasons were because the accounts exhibited activity consistent with money laundering.
Show of hands if you're at all surprised by this.

the AI companies are selling $100 bills for $1

as a followup to my previous reply, Musk has been a secretive cunt about this all along.
Originally it was supposed to be 15 temp units but instead they deployed 18, Then they quietly increased the number to 33 and then 46 all while publicly stating a lower number.
When it was discovered the number had grown to 59 and pressure was building on the company they started talking about removing some "very soon' WHILE adding TEN more for a total of 69 units!!
WTAF??

The EPA regs apply to all such whether temporary or permanent. Emissions are emissions, period.

The state loophole which Musk exploited and was finally overruled as a misapplication of the regs was intended as an exception for much smaller units.
Be that as it may, Musk and many who work for him knew the impact of continuous operation on local air quality and would never have dared if the community was wealthy & influential but if you're not meritorious enough to be rich, sucks to be you.

If it's in your physical possession and out of their reach it's not "digital"

What's scary is the number of people who've been doing just that for CDLs

it happens in any org where people has enough clout to exempt themselves from recommended practices.

we have to stop rewarding sociopaths with too much money & influence

For all his supposed environmentalism - he once said at an event "if we don't solve climate change, we're FRAKKED" - he flies a LOT in a private jet.
perhaps one day he'll take time out from his busy schedule of shitposting to sit down and use that peerless intellect to invent telecommunications & videoconferencing.
when the Nevada Gigafactory was 1st announced the presentation made a big deal of offsetting the electrical usage with rooftop & ground-mounted solar and wind turbines.
That was in 2014. To date ZERO ground-mount solar, ZERO wind turbines and of a promised 70MW rooftop only 8MW is reportedly finally operational.
By contrast, it was a mere few months for xAI to procure and fire up 46 temp gas turbines for a datacenter in Mississippi for a reported rated capacity of at least 500MW.
and there are more to come.
does Elon have permits for all of these you ask?

assuredly NOT!
can his employees who get to bask in his presence at the coffee bar get away with flouting rules like he does?

assuredly NOT!

but all is forgiven when you rub shoulders with the plebes

she didn't have a good explanation for why she was absent from the HR meeting with the flight attendant who accused Elon of offering a horse for a handjob and why Elon himself was allowed to preside.
but she's done a really good job of running SpaceX which likely would have crashed and burned (more often) if the Imperator of Mars ran it directly

"Cancer in your hand is probably not fun"
in my teens a neighbor had severe cancer of the jaw.
i'll take hand cancer any any even if it's my dominant hand

we already know who the garbage people are and they control the AI