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Centrist Dad. Localism. EFTA (not EU). A bit more taxes is ok. Interested how AI is going to change our lifes.

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@LoftusSteve Is Kemi Badenoch British? I really think this is a own goal by parts of the right. You should encourage immigrants to feel British.

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@TomTugendhat @DailyMail Wi-Fi has nothing to do with cellular technology. Dumb title (might not have been your fault)

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@JohnRentoul 941 rounds up to 900. They were being kind.

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@BIG_PARMENIDES Have them!!!!

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@EdConwaySky Is there a reference that explains the thermodynamics of this. I find the scale of improvement of the second pipe incredible. I’m a bit sceptic.

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@s8mb I find these drugs lame. What I want is to loose wait and still eat what I want.

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@AaronBastani WTF?!! Price of memory is related with AI. Not the Iran war!!

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@AaronBastani @brownliberite Yes. But it’s private land.

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@AaronBastani I really can't relate to this comment. London has excelelnt spaces. I spent the best years of my life playing with my kids in places all over London.

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@AaronBastani We won’t be able to afford buying the water companies.

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@Bradninchfellow @s8mb We definitely need some data centres for data sovereignty. But most of DC capacity will be for AI training and inference and it’s that that is not clear the usefulness of having it in expensive land. In fact, Google and xAI are already planning in moving it to space.

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@annaturley @bphillipsonMP She’s very very bad.

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@aledeniz @s8mb I agree it is an enabler but it doesn’t matter where it is. I agree that all things being equal, it would be good to have them in the UK but it’s not a big deal if we don’t. We have much bigger fish to fry.

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@aledeniz @s8mb It’s not good business. Running metal is very low profit. There are much better uses of energy and land.

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@aledeniz @s8mb Some services do require low latency and we should cater for them. AI training doesn’t. AI inference may in some situations but very rarely. DCs in the US are very far away from dense areas. Further away than France or Belgium for us.

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@Bradninchfellow @s8mb This is true but even if, magically, we improve our planning system, we still have lots to catch up on housing, reservoirs, nuclear power stations, etc. the internet makes location of data centres irrelevant.

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@tomjaguarpaw @s8mb I think there is an issue of national sovereignty, which is a good argument. But the economic benifit of being in the uk and not in France, I don’t see it. Specially when it may stall more important buildings like housing.

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@DAaronovitch Didn’t you do a “manifesto, shmanifesto” some days ago?