cavemandaveman

Why would they do that? There would be nothing differentiating them and nobody would pay for the subscription.

I'm more annoyed by the lazy, reactionary thinking that leads commenters to parrot "ai slop" and "enshittification" in referring to any AI feature in a product. That's the real slop.

In what world is the economy crashed? Granted, they gave it the old college try with the tariffs and Iran, but the economy is solidly growing regardless.

A "power chord" is a thing, btw, but it's something you play on guitar

Are you sure about the underfunding piece? Education funding is a larger share of GDP and higher in inflation-adjusted dollars than any time in the past. Maybe the funding is just poorly managed.

That's not true. Some of the biggest districts in the US stayed virtual over a year.

Yes, some public health officials had trouble weighing the risks of COVID itself with the risks of implementing their mitigation strategies.

Ars Technica in general has also been catering to their knee-jerk anti-AI audience. I used to find their comments section somewhat interesting but now it's the same old tired, outdated dunks on AI.

The article distinguishes between the 500 permanent jobs at the completed data center from the thousands more jobs for building a dozen more data centers (many of which are construction jobs as you note) that will last into the medium term.

Those aren't construction jobs. They're for the finished data center.

Cost prohibitive?

Microsoft is listing positions on their public job board (I know because I'm nosy and they're building a big data center complex a few miles from me). They look like good jobs for the area. A couple pay over $100K and only require a high school diploma for what looks to be essentially security guard roles.

I mean they're demonstrably not buying 'all' capacity or you wouldn't be able to have a brand new computer from a dozen different manufacturers with a wide range of specs delivered to your doorstep by tomorrow morning. They're buying enough capacity to put pressure on prices but if the game plan is to literally force you to only access compute through the cloud that's just not working or even feasible.

It didn't exist 5,000 years ago