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I drove past the construction site every day. They call it "The Barn" after hiring a marketing firm to come in and try to make it more appealing. It's massive and just gets bigger and bigger. iirc they got permission to begin construction before it was approved, then the zoning drama began. There's now a razor wire fence around the perimeter and the area is patrolled by state cops during the day. Clearly they know the situation.
The worst thing is I constantly get targeted ads about the construction. The ads say "we'll pay for the giant increase in energy consumption" and "it'll help reduce costs for everyone!" which is obvious horseshit. What costs are gonna go down, how will they be reduced? Energy costs? Fuel costs? Taxes? The marketing firm knows people are stupid enough to believe anything, even sentences that don't make any fucking sense.
oh this sucks man.
they are already losing AI race to china: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals
why even make people suffer from high electric bills
Interesting read. Here’s a link without the paywall: https://archive.ph/20260507223322/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals
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Anthropic’s says:
So open weight models are a national security risk? Guess we’d all better pay subscriptions, let the data centers be built, and let a couple companies building proprietary models have a monopoly to protect our security, then. 🙄
Poor things, they paid fairly all the data harvested from us, creators and publishers and now the Chinese have that data for "free"
Bottles can fly from real far away
Come down here and give it your best shot
But I see a lot more armchair militancy than actual actions
What is the point of your useless comment? I bet you are sad person, useless just like your comment. 100% sure if Luigi told you his plan you will be rambling your useless comment to him too
That's the spirit.
Seriously. Your more likely to see a woman from tiktok planting bamboo (hilarious, although probably ineffective) by the data center then all the "if it were me I would" type of comments.
Or a teen from Instagram who thinks he has nothing to lose.
Because in this day and age, they kind of don't have anything to lose. Especially if our dumbass fucking president gets his way.