If you look at the map of North America, the panhandle is actually Canada’s taint.

An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.

For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.

It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.

If Intel disappears, I imagine AMD will end up as the sole owner of the relevant Intel x86 patents during bankruptcy proceedings. Then AMD will then either negotiate a new agreement with someone else who wants to make x86 processors, or they end up having a monopoly on x86 and are forced to tread extremely lightly to avoid an antitrust lawsuit.

I guess that depends on whether or not those questions at the end are rhetorical.

It’s bullishit either way, but a single large industrial load is comparatively easy to accommodate, especially when it’s not a giant inductive load. A large increase in the residential demand is going to be spread out over huge areas, requiring changes all over the place.

Data centers are unfortunately not going anywhere. I just wish someone would put all that waste heat to use, instead of just dumping it into the atmosphere. Seems like it would be pretty easy to make something like a combination data center/desalination plant.

For her problem, it sounds more like her pump is sitting too low in the well.

In general though, data centers should all be banned from using evaporative cooling. Yeah it can be cheaper, but it causes too many issues when you start using it at scale.

Makes sense to get ahead of the upcoming issues. Can’t have the local population getting all uppity when he starts his third term.

Accommodating holidays or time for prayers is very different than accommodating an employee refusing to ever do the test they are paid to do.

The guards are facing south.

Recruiters target 18 year olds. Not exactly a group with tons of worldly experience and perspective.

It’s easy to take the cynical view, but that “defend the country” line is what a lot of those soldiers were told by the recruiters, and more importantly, is what a lot of those soldiers believe.

The hockey metaphor actually works to describe the Canadian populations response as a whole.

If the opposing team does something scummy, and the refs don’t respond, we will fist-fight you about it.

Canadians have always been polite, but there’s never been the tendency to be pushovers. People like Trump always get that confused.

Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?

At this point, I’ve seen far more people being almost violently anti-rust than I’ve seen people being weirdly enthusiastic about rust. If Rust people are Jehovah’s Witnesses, then a lot of the anti-Rust people are ISIS.

This is equipment that uses all statically addressed devices. And ignoring the fact that IPv6 is simply unsupported on most of them, there are duplicate machines that share programs. Regardless of IP version you need NAT anyway if you want to be able to reach each of the duplicates from the plant network.

We use NAT all the time in industrial settings. Makes it so you can have select devices communicate with the plant level network, while keeping everything else common so that downtime is reduced when equipment inevitably fails.

The transaction fee is not paid by the consumer (directly), and lord knows sellers are not going to lower prices based on payment method.

Who said the device based service has to be closed source?