I didn't know id Software was still a thing, especially after John Carmack left. What are they even doing now?

They are planning on building an AI datacenter in an industrial park at the edge of my small rural town. This industrial park already has some massive industry in it - like one of the largest Gatorade bottling plants in the USA.

On Facebook I started seeing a lot of posts in our local county gossip group casting pure FUD on the datacenter. Namely that it would pollute the water with heavy metals, and most of all, everyone would be "footing the electric bill" for this plant. With the electric bill the claim is that if infrastructure has to be improved, that cost is passed on to everyone. I've been trying to find information to combat this misinformation but it has been difficult.

In our case, the power company is AEP, which has over 5 million customers. There is a new 20 MW solar far less than a mile away from this location, and another 75 MW solar farm being built out in the county. We also have two hydroelectric dams on the edge of the county. This industrial park was built to attract huge industry and has massive power feeds, two interstates within a couple miles, and even rail service. So I doubt it needs anything at all, but even if it did, AEP is such a huge company that infrastructure costs would surely be absorbed across their entire customer base?

Looking at the initial posts seeding FUD, I noted that the people weren't even in our state, let alone our county.

Now there's a bunch of locals all riled up over this because they just believe anything they see online, and the next County Board of Supervisors meeting is going to be quite heated. Although I think this is already a done-deal.

There's pretty much zero probability Russia could use this to their advantage at this point - their space R&D engineering is pretty much gone. They don't even have a functioning launch platform for human flight at the moment.

The real risk is this being sold to China, or traded to China by Russia for hardware for their war machine against Ukraine.

They regularly do. At least four have flown on SpaceX Dragon flights to the ISS so far. First in 2022, most recent this year.

Bad idea. We're just a few volcanic eruptions away from wanting all the sunshine we can get.

Just imagine the cost of this over the course of a decade. The utility seems to have borne the brunt of the work, having to analyze and filter this data multiple times per year. That cost would have been passed onto customers - I'm sure it's appreciated that everyone's power bill was just a bit higher to fund this fishing expedition by law enforcement.

Then of course the investigators would be tied up digging through the 33,000 "tips" this data produced. Literally, law enforcement had to review 33,000 potential customers who met this profile, checking them for warrants or other known crimes giving them some excuse to surveil or even search that residence. Pretty extreme when you think about it - and that is just to catch people growing weed of all things. Not the dangerous drugs killing people or contributing to the homeless population on so on.

Finally, the fact that this generated so many potential leads shows how stupid the concept is in general - the "profile" they were going after regarding power usage. I can think of a hundred of other things that would cause higher power usage 24/7 that has nothing to do with growing weed.

Yeah but I bet the price of antihydrogen molecules at Walmart won't drop by 1/8th. I bet they won't even go down by half.

He'll be dead before any technology exists that can even remotely come close to bringing her back. It's unlikely she survived having died and then was frozen, let alone repair the cancer AND the damage from the cancer that was severe enough to kill her.

I'm sorry but the words "most ambitious infrastructure project in human history " were put together to form that sentence. HUMAN HISTORY. Ever hear about the great pyramids in Egypt?

Installing solar panels, batteries (are they even using them?) and charge controller / inverter for a home is an extremely fundamental thing that most anyone can do given simple instructions. In the US and other developed countries it often isn't done by a homeowner because if they intend to sell power back to the grid it has to be done by a certified installer and signed off on by the power company.

Now maybe if the sentence was "most ambitious infrastructure project in Sub-Saharan Africa" I wouldn't bat an eye, and that sounds like a reasonable statement, but not when it comes to the entirety of the human population over all history.

Over exaggerate much? Installing solar panels to power individual homes doesn't even come close to the "most ambitious infrastructure project in human history". Maybe building a railroad across an entire continent, or building a massive roadway system with thousands of bridges that span mighty rivers and gorges. Perhaps digging canals to connect the planet's oceans, or building power plants and distribution systems to provide power to a billion people...

What is funding this is companies trying to buy carbon credits. I actually tried to read this article but it was so overhyped and the guy was so giddy to blow it out of proportion my eyes almost got stuck in a permanent eye-roll.

Well it did top a chart - the Digital Download (IE purchase for $0.99) Chart, with.... 3,000 sales. As Rick says, "So it cost $3,000 to get the #1 spot."

Were the lyrics generated by AI? Were they tweaked or modified by a person? Is any of the music "real" or all generated by AI? I can't seem to find specifics on any of that.

Here's a YouTube link for those who don't pay for Spotify.

Song starts out kinda flat but the vocals really build at the end.

I recently bought a Steam Deck, and I must say this is one of the best gaming devices / consoles I've ever owned. From the ability to switch straight over to a (very nice) Linux desktop, to a refined game store that just works, it seems to do a LOT of things right. The dual touchpads are awesome for mouse navigation in the linux desktop, even if they are hardly used in games.

It's totally unlocked / open platform (which is why I have several thousand games on there from about 20 different consoles - even Amiga games). And of course I have a bunch of modern games on there too.

A number of games run through Proton on the deck, and so all of this is ground Valve has already broken - it's just offering it with more powerful hardware which requires a non-portable form factor (for better cooling and greater power requirements).

This is a misleading headline, making it sound like more PS5s have been sold than all Xbox models combined. What this article is really saying is that more PS5 consoles have been sold than any individual generation of Xbox console. So more PS5s have been sold than Xbox 360, and more than Xbox One, etc.

Less PS5s have been sold so far (84 million) than any previous generation. The most popular was the PS 2, having sold 160 million.

https://www.vgchartz.com/chart...

That's because China's industrial production has been flat to declining for 18 months.

https://ycharts.com/indicators...