Why not? It's not like the US ever fully banned it, and it's not like the shadier of the farmers were paying hired illegal immigrants full wage. It fits Trump's MO to a tee. He already had a reputation for not paying his contractors before he ever entered politics.
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.
Could be technically correct. Of course, they're all sub-minimum wage jobs picking crops and in sweatshops, and none of those jobs will be filled, but the jobs were "created".
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.
Regardless of whatever happens where you live, the concept of a police force, and its necessary function, is to enforce laws. That is the definition we are talking about.
I never quite got what the end goal is for people who paint the entire concept of police as a bad thing.
Living in a society requires rules of some description. The existence of rules then necessitates a mechanism to enforce them (or else they effectively do not exist), and some people to carry out that enforcement mechanism.
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.
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.
Do you not understand that "many" has a different meaning than "all"? Being able to point to one company that is actively blocking Proton doesn't prove a single thing.
Nope. AI is shit, but this is not AI driven. The auto industry alone is responsible for a lot of this. The flip-flopping on tariffs has basically paralyzed investment. For reference, the auto industry runs on 5-7 year cycles. So every 7 years, most equipment is replaced or rebuilt. This is an enormous amount of economic activity on top of simply running the equipment. That process has all but stopped since Trump took office, and it's explicitly due to the tariffs.
Why not? It's not like the US ever fully banned it, and it's not like the shadier of the farmers were paying hired illegal immigrants full wage. It fits Trump's MO to a tee. He already had a reputation for not paying his contractors before he ever entered politics.