data centers are less popular than almost any type of energy project (they're about as popular as large-scale transmission and more popular than coal plants)

Μικρές επαρχιακες πολεις με ασυνηθιστα μεγαλες (σε εκταση) βιομηχανικες περιοχές. Πουθενα συνδεση με σιδηροδρομο φυσικα.

Robert Frost recites 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.'

Εν τω μεταξύ απλά να πάρεις μια μέρα τα ΜΜΜ καταλαβαίνεις τα περισσότερα προβληματα που έχουν. Αλλά δεν έχει κάνει κανείς τον κόπο να τα πάρει μάλλον.

Part I of our series covers the BONES of a build: land, power procurement, permitting, and financing. Part II will cover the GUTS (internal systems, monetization) - soonTM. These are the bare necessities:

Smoke-away this is basically the new oil rush. whoever can build infrastructure fastest gets to control the supply chain for intelligence itself. the crazy part is we're gonna see entire cities built around these datacenters. imagine vegas but for AI compute instead of gambling.

Αυτό το μεικτό άναρχο βιομηχανίες - βιοτεχνίες - αποθήκες - κατοικίες στην Θεσσαλονίκη για ποιο ακριβώς λόγο επιτρέπεται; Τι χάος είναι αυτό;

BREAKING: OpenAI has asked the US government to massively expand its energy capacity to stay ahead in artificial intelligence. In a filing to the White House, OpenAI called for 100 gigawatts of new power each year to close the “electron gap” with China. We need more power.

Elections for electricity regulators -something that apparently happens only in the US, in just 10 states worldwide- have suddenly become political battlegrounds as data centres expand and electricity bills rise.

adas “A great New Yorker once said” and it’s his opponents father. Restrained brilliance.

Herman Hesse's library

Good read about built data centers that are sitting there empty because they can't get access to power. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AI data centers will be some of the biggest infrastructure projects in history e.g. OpenAI’s Stargate Abilene will need: - As much power as Seattle (1 GW) - >250× the compute of the GPT-4 cluster - 450 soccer fields of land - $32B - Thousands of workers - 2 years to build

#Syria: #Damascus is set to experience 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity for the first time today. This will also serve as a test of the Capital's electrical infrastructure.

When Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize in 1969, he agreed to do a television appearance for a Swedish news station on the one condition that they wouldn’t ask him any questions. One minute of Beckett standing still in silence, thirty seconds of the ocean youtu.be/hYwScABAciA

This House Regrets the Demise of the Ottoman Empire at the Oxford Union tonight

RIP Frank Gehry, you were every engineer’s nightmare.

David Tong Rupert Myers Because proper design is a moral issue (see Tschichold, the Form of the book: essays on the morality of good design) and it is representing the image to the public. It is also, more relevantly, much easier to read.