How does closing the blinds conserve electricity? O_o
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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But also, don't forget to teach AI and use AI in your school!
https://www.vaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HenricoGenerativeAIPreparingForDigitalAge.pdf
I never understood why we’re supposed to need to be ‘taught’ how to use AI if it’s so good at natural language processing. If the reference desk librarian can understand it and give you what you actually want (not necessarily the exact thing you’re asking for), so should anything being touted as AI.
County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.
here come the brownouts motherfuckers...
I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.
I least they got all that money and jobs (right? I'm pretty sure Facebook skirted that actually)
Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people
They also cut the taxes the corporations pay by 50%, at least they didn't have to build homes or anything useless.
I just yelled "what!" outload.
I wonder if there's any chance of all the tech speculation helping to fund electrical grid upgrades (including grid scale storage for renewables) that actually benefit regular human society after the bubble pops.
Seems unlikely unless the bubble survives another 5+ years. My guess is power companies are taking AI contracts and cash now, promising to add capacity later, and then when the bubble pops they will shrug, say no more capacity is needed, and give the CEOs a huge bonus.
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