Clever use of the technology. I wonder if any other businesses are looking into this?

There might be a slew of still salvageable parts I would think. I guess the question is how salvageable, how complicated to recover, and how much those parts would be worth.

An ex-boss. After many run-ins with HR, she still works there somehow. I don’t.

Would it cost more than $60 mil to recover it from the ocean?

That's *always* the case.

Maybe there’s a reason for that. The word “enshitification” doesn’t exist in a void.

Someone like Electrify America will buy it up.

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Hopefully sites like Wikipedia and Internet Archive already have backup sites not located in the US.

Interesting article. I do wonder why a more of the data centers aren’t located in colder climates. I’ve read people are investigating piping/reusing the waste heat to warm homes and businesses in colder cities. There was one data center (not AI related) that was using their heat to warm an indoor pool.

The water usage they mention looks like it’s for cooling. I’m guessing they mean evaporative coolers? That would mean that the water wouldn’t have to be potable. Requiring the systems to use grey water might help. I also wonder if they could be located on the coastline and just use filtered seawater.

The other interesting point was about the amount of electricity at these places used to generate content. Some device manufacturers are moving towards on device AI. I’m guessing that would use a lot less electricity.

And then weren’t there some recent advances in AI models that didn’t require as much computing power? Maybe this will help dial back their electrical use.

It just seems like in the race to get ahead in AI, people are throwing money and processing power at the problem without worrying about the environmental consequences. Of course that’s usually the way it’s done, all in the name of making money. It’s good to see the industry being called out for it.

“‘ Everyone thinks DOGE is great,’ another administration official said.”

Everyone?

“Musk clapped back by calling Bessent a ‘Soros agent’"

🙄

I don’t. The more they fight the less they get done.

Has he considered resigning?

I hope no one gets it. It should be its own separate company.

“It is a recognized ozone-depleting chemical… The compound was used extensively as a pesticide until being phased out by most countries in the early 2000s.”

“The Montreal Protocol stipulates that bromomethane use be phased out.”

I guess everyone is phasing it out except the US? Figures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromomethane

Actors used to be on the hook for overdub voice work after shooting wrapped. I don’t know if that’s still the case.

Honestly, I’m more concerned about high budget movies where I can’t understand a fucking word. I know there have been many articles and YouTube videos on the subject, but there’s really no excuse for that nonsense.

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Motorcycles I can kind of understand. Some people believe that making their cycle loud makes it more “visible” to other drivers, helping to prevent accidents. I don’t think there’s been any studies to prove this, but I can understand why people buy into it.

Still waiting on an enterprising social network to start detecting photoshopped and AI-generated images, and badging them as such. If AI can generate this slop, surely it can be used to detect it.

So will this guy just end up back on Fox News?

It’s a shame teachers are pressured to “curve grade” rather than just flunk these people and hold them back a grade.