Except for Alberta, which totally tracks because it’s the Texas of Canada.

It’s not a disagreement when someone says something that is objectively and proveably false.

This is something that people need to figure out.

They said I was misleading, then they either just strait up either lied, or didn’t bother to confirm their assumption when trying to prove that. They were wrong.

You call me out for not being nice. What they did is not nice. Call them out for that.

Are you saying that states can’t regulate this? They absolutely can.

You say we like it’s everyone. It isn’t.

My province in Canada had the electricity provider cap how much gets allocated to new data centers per year at a sustainable number.

Regulation instead of outright bans are the correct path forward.

You’re wrong. The average yearly co2 output for a car is somewhere between 4-5 tons. Which lines up with the numbers in the article. So no, it’s not actively running vehicles.

I am a fan of AI, that’s correct. That doesn’t change the fact that every single one of you chucklefucks don’t seem to understand numbers, or the scale of things in the real world.

You go on and on about how bad they are for the environment, while continuing to eat meat and drive your cars around. Both of which consume resources in a scale that makes AI look like a rounding error. Until I start hearing people protesting and actually doing something about those, I’m going to assume that your anti-AI stances are bullshit and a cover for hiding your fear that they will take over your job.

If that’s the real reason, just say it, then I will agree with you. Then we can discuss how we need to change society to deal with that problem, rather than banning AI.

There are approximately 1.7 billion cars in the world right now.

That’s 1700 million for people who can’t do math.

As it should be.

Those pipelines are going to spring a lot of fucking holes if they try to take them by force.

I don’t think NATO would invade, but you’re right about the internal internal issues they would have. There would be orders straight up refused, malicious compliance, and we’d see defections like Russia was having issues with in Ukraine. Soldiers just walking up and surrendering, or getting “captured.”

Most of them have no interest in taking over Canada, and there isn’t even a clear way to “take over” Canada even if they wanted to. They could take over all of our military bases, and take the primary government institutions and it wouldn’t really matter very much. They couldn’t effectively control the population that would not go along with that plan.

We need to hurt the normal people. While some of them didn’t vote for trump, a LOT of them didn’t vote at all. That needs to change. These people don’t usually change until something affects them personally.

If we can get some non-voters to vote, the republican party drops like a rock.

Is that election interference? No more than what they’re doing to us.

The prices of new electronics have skyrocketed, the used market always follows so you’re right to be worried.

May their lineage end with them.

These people can rationalize anything, including the death of their own children. That’s how they got to this point in the first place.

Don’t forget car accidents, and overdosing.

The underlying technology isn’t unprofitable, inference alone isn’t unprofitable. It’s the research and development of better models that’s unprofitable and unsustainable.

Investment IS gambling, some people will win, some will lose.

That’s pretty much how almost every new development happens. EVs were the same, primarily funded by subsidies and now they’re cost competitive or better in many situations even without them. Cellphone networks… also heavily funded by investors and some took hits from how it all played out. The dotcom bubble. Even as far back as the Railroad boom in the UK. This is a tale as old as time.

People down voting a study. Hilarious.

Feels over reals. We’re fucking doomed.

Not an engineer but vinegar (ascetic acid) at full strength applied early enough during curing could be a problem. If it’s the watered down stuff for home use and the concrete was already partially cured it wouldn’t do almost anything.

You’re not really correct with that statement.

Most large farms produce almost no local benefit. They don’t buy supplies locally, or sell the product locally, and these days they don’t employ that many people either.

Datacenters are not empty, they still employ people after being built.

So does every city, suburb, town, factory, mine, processing plant, farm, etc.

That’s hardly a datacenter specific issue.

Capacity = capability. It allows them to build better models and run inference.

Other than openai and anthropic, all of the other top models right now are Chinese. That’s just the ones we know about too.

The US datacenters aren’t going to be selling capacity to the Chinese government and military.