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If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry.

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  • Why isn't the roof of that facility covered with solar panels?

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    Of course it should be covered in solar panels but so should most roofs everywhere but this single roof would be less than a drop in the bucket. A square meter solar panel gives you about 100 watts while the sun is at it's highest point, and only when aimed directly at the sun. Typically over the entire day, the average will be a fraction of that Meanwhile these servers use multiple CPUs that each take around 200 watts. A single server can take between 1-5 kilowatt in power. A single rack than carry dozens of those server's, so you see that you'd need way, waaaayyy more solar panels to make up for all of that Again, not saying they shouldn't. All buildings should have solar panel roofs, but for this one building it won't do much to the point that the difference would be a blip
  • Can I build a fully decentralised website?

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    No kind, it's a forewarning.
  • It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

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    AI has a pretty clear definition. What you mean to say is that it isn't intelligent but that doesn't make it not AI. Like how a shooting star isn't actually a star.
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    This is why it's so hard to fight this, every company blames another one but never by name, I'm sure it's by design
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    A hosted server that exists to run bittorrent (and other things). Usually these are managed by the host so you don't need to know anything about managing a server. You just get a web interface to install and configure apps and credentials to connect to your FTP server. The advantage is the server is usually located in a datacenter with incredibly fast and cheap bandwidth while also being in a country that doesn't care much about US copyright. You can get cheap ones for like $5/mo with tiny storage. These are basically so they can download from Bittorrent and you can copy the files to your PC (using something like SFTP or rsync). This is a better, imo, option than torrenting via a VPN and protects you from your ISP/government determining that yoy use BitTorrent. You can pay a bit more for other features too. I have more storage, more upload bandwidth and the ability to run streaming apps (Jellyfin and Plex) which don't count against my upload bandwidth. The better torrent sites are all private and, generally, having a seedbox is a requirement for membership. So it also allows you access to higher quality sites with better seeded torrents.
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    Hinging their entire future on the bet that their country gets an easily manipulated dictator, when said dictator is 80 years old already, would be extremely short-sighted from Google.
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    Archival is a fair use.
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    No computer programs “know” anything. Can you stop with the nonsense? LMFAO... if exists(thing) { write(thing); } else { write("I do not know"); }