@GareyCozad@grilledmfcheeze@LukeGromen Hey Garey, you confuse Luke with an anti Trumper. He is not. I never heard any Trump disagreeing statements until the last 4-5 months (when incidentally trumps actions seemed to be inconsistent with his voting platform) but only based on specific actions Trump was taking
As someone who heard almost the exact same argument made 24 years ago by both union executives and manufacturing executives in the US Rust Belt, let me tell you how this is likely to go:
China is going to get there either way, & so the US can either piss away trillions in Iran and set themselves back (like we did in Iraq) or spend trillions we would piss away on war, internally on this project instead.
@momoneymohit@ErikKaiser The key with any support tool (including Teslas) is getting parents to use it before they need it so they can adjust and remember how to use it.
We found several great support tools but with a parent who wasnt able to remember to use it or remember how
@ErikKaiser Its hard to stay ahead of it and the path & pace of memory loss is unpredictable
*Get the POA in place
*Lean on local/govt organizations for memory assessments & driving tests
*If conversations are what she sees out the window (and not recent activities) you are way behind
10 million gallons of water. Per day.
That is what a single data centre hub in Hayes County, Texas uses for cooling.
It is draining the Edwards Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to the Austin and San Antonio corridor.
And that is 'just' the water.
Texas data centres have requested 446 gigawatts of grid connections. That is 5 times the state's entire peak power capacity.
The last nuclear plant built in America, Vogal in Georgia, took 7 years and its cost doubled from $12 billion to $30 billion.
The waiting list for heavy-duty gas turbines is 7 years. Small modular reactors will not exist in the West until the mid-2030s.
90 percent of global gas turbines come from just 3 companies, and they are not expanding capacity because they fear an AI bust.
One commentator told Andrew Neil that a lot of these data centres are going to turn into pickleball halls. He might be right.
The companies in the vanguard of the technology of tomorrow are about to be strangled by an old-fashioned energy crunch.
Trillions in investment, and nowhere to plug it in.
Watch the full conversation with Andrew Neil in the comments.
#SteveKeen #AIBubble #EnergyCrisis #DataCentres #ArtificialIntelligence #Economics #Infrastructure
@ProtheanInst@Geiger_Capital 300 is a real threat risk threshold. These cavers aren't "design" to go to empty. The risk that isn't discussed is the potential of the caverns caving in. Then say buh-bye to any SPR.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
How is this not like the confiscation of Russian assets that started the distrust in the USD? (Confiscation of Iran assets)
@onechancefreedm@DavidBCollum
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 ÚLTIMA HORA | Trump anuncia una nueva medida contra Irán
“A partir de ahora, cualquier daño causado a barcos, cargamentos o bienes relacionados será compensado con fondos iraníes bajo control de EE.UU.
Puede ser una cantidad muy grande, pero es lo justo y correcto”.
@onechancefreedm I'm concerned that out current "systems" have very minimal flexibility and "give" on a crisis
Food: Very little food is grown locally or even domestically. Grocery stores have only days of stock
Manuf: seems very little is produced in US, nothing produced exclusivity in the US
@ErikKaiser Question, Erik:
Why are they making robots anatomical?
For manufacturing purposes or seems like another configuration would be more optimal and easier for coding (3 dimensions and angels)