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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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    That's what I thought but there's slightly more than that. The writer tried to trick ChatGPT 5, saying Vermont has no R in it. ChatGPT did say "wait, it does". But then when pushed it said, "oh right there is no R in Vermont". I mean... the inability to know what it knows or not is a real problem for most use cases...
  • This is going to feel like the recycle scam isn't it.

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    This has been the case for decades, why would it change now?
  • Why isn't the roof of that facility covered with solar panels?

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    You're right about the general idea, but I think you're even underestimating the scale here. I don't think these servers will be doing much on CPU, they'll be on GPUs. HPE will sell you a 48 rack unit behemoth with 36 Blackwell GB200s for a total of 72 GPUs and 36 CPUs. The CPUs are actually negligible here, but each of the 36 units use a total of 2700 watts (single GPU itself is supposedly 1200 watts so that would make the CPU 300 watts?) 36 * 2.7 = 97.2 kilowatts. You put just a hundred of these in a data center and you're talking over 10 megawatts once cooling and everything is factored in. So this is what, 100k m^2 of solar panels for 100 racks? You'd want them to be running most of the time too, idle hardware is just a depreciating asset. Say they run 75% of the time. 0.75 * 10 * 24 * 365 = 65700 MWh which I will not even convert to gigawatt hours to simplify this: The average American household uses about ~11 MWh of electrical energy per year. A single AI-focused data center without even all that many racks uses as much power as ~6000 households. They're building them all over the country, and in reality I think they're actually way bigger than what I mentioned. It's putting a significant dent in the power grid, to the point AI companies should be required to commission nuclear power plants before being allowed to build their data centers.
  • how can they get away with this?

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    Free electricity is cool unless you produce solar. Everyone who does will be paying to produce electricity because the grid fees go both ways (produce or consume) lol Luckily I do not produce solar. Wanted to install, but lately I've been thinking... With how NordPool works, the more common solar becomes, the less attractive it'll be because there'll be more and more periods where you have to PAY to produce electricity. Or disconnect your panels from the grid every time that happens? AKA whenever solar is the most effective...
  • It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

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    I dunno, I've asked it to do increasingly more complex tasks and it's obliged. Stuff like take these 10 pages of handwritten tables and ocr them and make a .csv out of them. It's inventing a whole process to do that. Same with some examples of it programming entire games. You need some procedural thinking to do those things.
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    Then, those in charge can criminalise you.
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    Was that steam version downloaded through steam? Aka is it a different installer, or did you install in steam using the non-steam game option. (Just trying to verify it's a different installer, don't do the install again if it's 2 seperate install packs you installed from) Steam installs in a different location than Lutris as well, so it shouldn't be the specific folder not having permissions. I assume Steam user Proton by default as well while Lutris likely defaulted to Wine. Grr.. this is going to be something stupid and frustrating for you.
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    And I'm glad that the UK left the EU, because now the EU has its own Cuba in front of its shores. Makes life more interesting, doesn't it?