if you're interested, theres several documentaries on the canadian government's efforts to keep it contained. I think Tom Scott's shortish one was my starting point.
and we've collected enough arsenic from a single mine to kill every human on the planet 300 times over in one spot- what's your point? That because we screwed up one spot we should give up?
It's irrelevant. Glass is a fickle mistress- a factory defect from 20 years ago can be the nucleus for the whole pane to shatter for any reason, or no reason.
Anything loud enough to crack any pane of glass that gets near it means federal agencies are very interested.
You say they have a large impact, but having lived somewhere with some of the largest data centers- they very much don't. At least not more so then any other structure that paves over greenery.
love to debate actual discission points. pull up "datacenter dfw" on google maps for mine.
lmao. Because US schools teach that by asking for two page essays about a Hiaku, or five pages for a 50 page novella. How about the first-grader's assignment of two pages describing how to make a PB&J?
For your first point- You've just repeated "shared tenant." A scaling factor that's been used since before the turn of the milenium. Uptime is, as always, an irrelevancy for personal/homelab vs cloud. It shifts from uptime to pure financial (capex first, then how you account for "wasted" time).
2) The current memory crunch is more political than cyclical. The only reason we have fabs as far intro construction as we do is CHIPS Act. Which, predates LLMs public existance by more than 6mo. the horrific silicon prices are a direct result of openAI's openly Illegal dealings. Their pretense of needing it for stargate gets sundered further with each missed or cancelled deadline.
They predicted the political and regulatory outcome superbly.
it'll be interesting for sure. I don't mean to be discourging- but it seems like taking a swing at an Echo is a right of passage in reverse engineering circles.
I can't see the article- but a little research on ERCOT's wholesale pricing maps reveals two things: 1) today's prices are somewhere between -$200 and +$200 and 2) theres 900+ discrete pricing locales in Texas.
did I misunderstand the question?