Comments on: Trump, Oracle, Stargate and Virtual Davos

By: penny2

penny2 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:22:59 +0000

In reply to Ally. Thanks Ally I'm going to check these links out!

By: penny2

penny2 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:22:09 +0000

In reply to Mark. I have my doubts that this panopticon will come to fruition. It's way too resource intensive and costly- people will catch on! However, the money will be spent to try and make it so.

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:55:51 +0000

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/021999kurd-europe.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/021799kurd-protests.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/021899kurd-europe.html

Off topic but some interesting articles written around the capture of Ocalan in 1999

By: penny2

penny2 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:24:43 +0000

In reply to Mark.

Hi Mark
I’m on the run today, but, want to leave this link here as well

Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island

A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/

“If Three Mile Island comes back online, Microsoft will be the one benefiting, as its long-term power purchase agreement would secure it enough energy to power roughly 800,000 homes every year. Except in this case, it’ll be used to help run the company’s data center infrastructure in the region.”

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:44:18 +0000

My understanding is that AI development requires massive amount of electricity. Coupled with that needed for the popularization of electric vehicles and heat pumps for home heating; how is the electric grid going to provide for massive, sudden increases in demand, while switching away from fossil fuel generation ? The electric grid is already the most vulnerable part of our infrastructure. The technology does not yet exist, let alone the infrastructural, to supply the projected demand. They are dreaming in colour and we are setting ourselves up for a dark, cold future in winter and an AC blackout in the summer.