They need access to your phone to sideload their spyware?

1.15 PUE is considered normal for water cooled datacenters. 1.5 is for air cooling. It might be more tightly packed, or conservative to not very deep water temperatures.

It’s a major political issue. While “everything Israel ever wants should be US priority” has solid US consensus, “Skynet for US oligarchist privatized profits to ensure compliance with Zionist supremacism, and not just subjugation of Americans through oligarchist driven unemployment but subjugation to supporting skynet” or China wins is about even with political establishment support for Israel supremacy.

Government operations buying AI services is integral to “need to beat China”, and “evil operations”, and circular financing back to politicians meant to maximize this, is by design.

also questioned Altman about a $10 billion computing deal with Cerebras, in which Altman holds a stake worth $3.2 million.

It’s a $20B deal. Covering just first 3 years of full datacenter lease. It’s a bit strange of a deal where 3 year lease payments are higher than cost of datacenter, and an Nvidia alternative would have better economics, even if Cerebras can do some things well. Altman with a personal stake, can explain OpenAI’s generosity in the deal.

Bitlocker was developed entirely inside MSFT. Upon further review, there is a chance that this is all somewhat normal behaviour. Part of MSFT safeOS to make it convenient to recover bitlocker access, and update windows.

does bitlocker encrypt whole volume, or userdata folders? It’s a performance issue to encrypt anything that doesn’t need to be.

100% certainty of backdoor. Is bitlocker developed outside of MSFT? Would seem to need MSFT cooperation to implement.

9gw if run 24/7 (capacity utilization is actually low on average in US) is 551.88 twh/year. 1500x. Natural gas is not that much cleaner than coal from co2/ghg warming perspective.

its 9gw of consumption. 19gw of total heat generation.

17gw of heat is both under and over estimate.

3,600 of those industrial-scale generators to power Stratos

Caterpillar 2.5mw generators have maximum efficiency of 45%, and so 19gw is peak thermal power. that is roughly 26 hiroshimas per day.

It’s an over estimate because datacenter cpu/gpu capacity utilization is on average under 10%. It could still produce all that power for export to trap all that heat in a valley.

decent performance on 6gb gpu without quantization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_5pdcD3HY&t=9s

qwen 3.6 is awesome, but 48-64gb is still real money these days. (though 32gb on dedicated separate machine is also more money). Sonnet 3.5 to opus 4.5 level benchmarks. and the online cost metrics for 27b and 35b are way off considering the overall usefulness of a 48-64gb machine (inclusive of gpu vram for 35b) which even in single, non batching, use could displace $5-$7/day of use.

Local costs are much lower than online costs in linked chart, but if online, there are better models

Literally the most absurd offer in history of universe. You pay $150/month to have some extra noise and space taken away from you. While they install batteries in your home, it is for their use, and takes up more space. All you get is a phone app that can turn off lights in other rooms.

Their production rate is still 4 per month. They did promise large production capacity this year.

This is new, and somehow related to onshore wind farms. Courts have issued rulings that DoD BS about radar interference was BS related to offshore windfarms, (previously OK’d by DOD for not creating interference) essentially allowing them to resume. This would be even more BS, with no possible chance of passing court review, because DoD can’t make radar BS claim.

Can’t you just vibe code your banking app? As long as I can make my balance higher, this will beat iphone rounded corners banking app.

so paywalled, didn’t even show a byline.

This is fundamental mechanism behind subprime crisis., Channels to offload debt so that more debt can be issued.

A lot of companies building AI datacenters, are laying off people to afford the gamble. Oracle, Meta the biggest ones. So there’s a real burning of core bridges effect to get into the bubble gold rush.

what does github copilot do? ELI20ish

This is fine! I get paid to write code that passes tests. if Format F: and recreating test environment passes the most tests…