David Urmann

Avid traveler. Political centrist. Stargazer. Entrepreneur. AI daily user & sceptic. Remember $GBLX?

[David Urmann @urmann]

A giant data center powerful enough to run a global surveillance network with predictive intelligence.

[Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯 @BasedSamParker]

Why does Utah need a 63 square mile data center that will require more than twice Utah's current total electrical consumption? Why does the country, for that matter?

[David Urmann @urmann]

@CryptoNobler 33 percent of debt has a duration of a year or less so this 12 trillion figure will probably be about the same as it is next year.

[David Urmann @urmann]

Flock cameras installed and paid for with your tax dollars are creating a massive warrantless surveillance network that tracks your every move.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

3 Important Flock Watchdog Sites:

1. https://t.co/ijFXUJCDau - Nationwide ALPR map covering Flock deployments, removals, & resistance.

2. https://t.co/5p8lwy0k0P - Crowdsourced hub mapping Flock cameras, & city contracts.

3. https://t.co/J1mOqNomuB - Quick lookup for whether Flock is watching you & local data collection.

Know the tech. Know the threat. Know the system.

[David Urmann @urmann]

When Alaska built the oil pipeline everyone got a lifelong dividend. Utah negotiated a deal so it's citizens are going to be left with a perpetual bill for the privilege of building this data center.

[Mark 🇺🇲 @IdleAn94328]

We had all the cards. "Mr. Wonderful" needed our water, land, power, and natural gas. He even admitted there were competitors. We could have received full tax revenue and even asked for them to pay for the GSL pacific ocean pipeline or at least part of it. Instead @GovCox gives him tax subsidies and everything he wants. He has no idea how to negotiate from a position of strength.

He's not only the most corrupt governor we have ever had, he's the dumbest

[David Urmann @urmann]

@GavinNewsom All voting districts should divide the space in question so that the length of the sum of the borders is minimized. Geometry will be a better arbitrator than politics.

[David Urmann @urmann]

@BasedSamParker The data centers will be needed to run the robots of the 2030s.

[David Urmann @urmann]

Either #Perplexity is just being honest or the answer is derived from how the question is asked.

[David Urmann @urmann]

I wonder what electric and gas bills are going to look like along the Wasatch front in a few years.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 The LARGEST "hyperscale" data center in the world is being proposed in Box Elder County, Utah.

It's approx. 40,000 acres/62 square miles, backed by Canadian millionaire Kevin O’Leary.

Fast-tracked by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, backed by Gov. Spencer Cox, with the public locked out of the decision process.

Utah, say hello to a 50% increase in CO₂ emissions, polluted water, and 24/7 noise and light pollution.

[David Urmann @urmann]

@sukh_saroy Is this really a new finding. If normal questions are at all biased you are going to get that bias in your answer.

[David Urmann @urmann]

@AFpost He was the one interacting. Consciousness is always directed towards something. The LLM just turns off when it's not interacted with.

[David Urmann @urmann]

The end of OPEC? Most overlooked story of the day.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: The UAE says it has quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing ⁠a heavy ⁠blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, at a time when the war on Iran has caused ⁠a historic energy shock and unsettled the global economy.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/V0eXpSU7Nz

[David Urmann @urmann]

@aakashgupta Voice is fine as an option but it's much slower than entering text which is often copy/paste.

[David Urmann @urmann]

@EricBalchunas Doesn't sound like they will be holding anything except paper Bitcoin.

[David Urmann @urmann]

@DrNeilStone How would one know if one had a side effect?

[David Urmann @urmann]

Imagine politics if every debate question had to address this single point.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Economics: The optimal level of tax evasion, govt waste, crime, and even voter fraud is often *above* zero.

(Because getting to literal zero usually requires imposing dramatically higher costs & burdens on everyone else to ensure prevention of those last, few, toughest cases.)

[David Urmann @urmann]

@Geiger_Capital How does that work if the Iranians decide to keep the straight closed?

[David Urmann @urmann]

@felixprehn A billion for Blackrock is like me buying a piece of chewing gum.

[David Urmann @urmann]

If this is accurate it pretty much sums up how the rest of the war evolves.

[World Insights @World_Insights1]

Ballistic missile launches by Iran during the first four days of conflict:

🚀 Ballistic Missiles:
🔴 Day 1 — 350
🔴 Day 2 — 175
🔴 Day 3 — 120
🔴 Day 4 — 50
🔴 Day 5 — 40

🛸 Drone Swarms:
🟢 Day 1 — 294
🟢 Day 2 — 541
🟢 Day 3 — 200
🟢 Day 4 — 85
🟢 Day 5 — 45

[David Urmann @urmann]

@DA_Stockman A lot of folks jumped on the Bitcoin train with the ETFs without really understanding the value proposition. This is the shakeout.

[Naval @naval]

If you do not direct your attention, it will be directed for you.