Technology

And all that for some shitty pngs and the pleasure of not being attended by actual people.

generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

Americans will do anything but use the metric system.

I can't wait to eat Kevin.

Well, Davies has a point, communicating scale is the difficult part.

So, for those familiar with computers, think Scott this:

A typical Word doc or PDF is several hundred KB's (kilobyte =1000 bytes) to 1MB (Megabyte 1m bytes) a jpg picture your phone takes, is 3-4MB. A full HD movie streamed online will be about 9GB (Gigabyte =1b bytes) of data. Obviously a movie is thousands of "images" stitched together so is file size with be significantly more. The same goes for that energy usage.

Similarly, Homes are measured in kW usage (technically usage per hour or kWh) on a monthly basis. You might use ~800-1,000kWh per month, maybe 10,000-11,000kWh a year. But let's call it 1000kW are used, so 1mW or 1 megawatt. This data center would need at least 9,000x more energy per month as it's gW scale, not mW or even kW... Plus, its power plant will be close by, so you're creating heat and pollution to make the 9+gW energy and then USING up that energy and dumping 8+gW of heat, so his example calculated 16gW of heat being generated... That's the equivalent of a good 16k homes, or ~60,000 people use.

THE KICKER that's just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake's water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F)..

Fuck AI!

The funny thing is that Utah has some of the worst air pollution in the world. Yet they keep pushing to make it worse. I remember a couple of years ago in summer doctors in the state beg government to restrict private cars till the air problem clear up and the gov told them to fuck off.

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2024/08/02/utah-bad-air-quality-pollution-salt-lake-city/
https://www.kuer.org/health-science-environment/2024-01-23/reaching-for-air-there-are-solutions-to-pollution-but-will-utah-leaders-listen

Kevin O’Leary is a parasite

In a state already facing a water crisis.

Yet they'll still vehemently and gleefully vote Republican.

I feel bad for the few there who see this crisis for what it is. Expect water refugees from the American Southwest very soon.

And then conservatives are like, why do people keep trying to shoot at us?

BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL YOU DAFT CUNTS

An "atom bomb" is not a standard unit of measurement. It's less than helpful.

this is just another grift… half of the smaller data centers have been cancelled already with most of the rest near impossible to comblete in the promised timeline

he is just making bombastic promises to rake in some fools and their money

Decades of protests and innovation to stop climate change

VS

one AI techbro

Poof! Progress gone, just like that

Also any time someone uses the word 'hyperscale', my spidey senses start tingling.

Giving CANADIANS US Taxpayer Dollars to ELIMINATE our Water Supplies is putting AMERICA FIRST!

-Republicans!

I propose a hyperscale billionaire cooking center where we drive the heat of 23 atom bombs directly up Kevin's ass.

Ah, another Captain Planet villain added to the roster.

Didn't he and his wife also killed someone while driving their boat drunk?

They should really try boiling some water with that waste heat, maybe make it spin a turbine or two.

Why does this guy have to be such a massive piece of shit.

I feel like everyone went mental. No one needs this shit.

But at least when I have to write a professional sounding email I can shut off my brain and make the computer cluster do it!

It'd be better for earth to nuke every billionaire

The methane production from all the bullshit that guy spills should be able to power it