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First things:

1. The AI race has been essentially been a nation cold war arms race with China - so that would be the government backing the race. 2. The previous Biden administration was going to put a lock down on all things AI (remember: The 10²⁶ FLOPs Rule) 3. The populist anger about data centers will have a strong political arm to investigate and shut down efforts (at all levels). 4. Energy buildout will be intentionally slow down through various mechanisms controlled by dems. 5. Financial regulatory bodies will have strong teeth.

FWIW this isn't meant to be political but more a state of play looking at the real factors of Dems getting power and the impact to the market place.

How many people in this thread think that when the Dems win midterms the AI boom has a hard switch to a bust? I really feel like they will rapidly expedite the process instead of having air come out. I definitely didn't think the market would run up right to the date though.

Wait this is the CEO of proton mail? Wasn't that a coveted email service for privacy and safety -- so you didn't have to be on gmail? Brutal.

Wait what is this site the dles of aukspot? How do you choose - it's overwhelming.

I didn't realize how vast the underworld of dle games was. Brought to you by AI?

The Zynga of small cute puzzle web-games.

Its headline of the NYT - not sure we have ny post version of the article here.

Fair enough! Thanks for clarifying -- I have a tough time imagining a lot of people getting into that spend without work driving it (And paying for it)!

I mean you can definitely do that - just set it up do to that.

What you are describing is that a majority of humans are inherently not interested in that. There are are a subset of people who would like to do that - and certainly can now that they have the tooling.

Its just a vastly strong tool. If you want it, build it.

What are you talking about -- almost no one goes with a mix of energy. It should be renewables + nuclear + storage and were golden. Everyone just goes solar+battery saying thats all we need, it isn't.

And gas/fuel has high functional use as a differentiated energy product - we just don't need to use so much of it -- keep it on the smaller end of the use case spectrum.

Im not a gas booster -- but turbine technology is pretty impressive. Id go with nuclear before gas for sure - especially for these larger long lived sites.

I would say you end up with battery+solar and gas turbine/gensets providing power when solar+batteries cant fill the gap. Its a bit expensive to be adding so many different sources on site to shore up power supply.

FWIW obvious maintenance work required to keep turbines going.

Yes the point of batteries is to add backup power when solar goes down - and it does. However the two of them do not get to 4 9's of uptime which is needed for these large data facilities.

Reliability issues. You cannot get 4 9s with solar and battery.