Surprise!

Only 15 years? That's pretty good.

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.

That was their initial response. When a petition reaches 10k signatures, it requires a written response from the gvt. When it hits 100k signatures, it requires a "debate" in parliament. The debates are often shams where the topic is tokenly brought up and then routinely dismissed. But it does at least require that they read the signed text. In this case I think the argument is poorly made in the petition text. It does not even mention digital security, and the risk of a data leak for ID collectors.

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.

Mark my words: It will be Vance, not Trump who gets to be the first King of America. The future is bleak.

Then, those in charge can criminalise you.

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?