… But Google’s Townsend defended the company’s record thus far. “To the best of our ability, we are accounting for the offsite water footprint,” Townsend said, “and I think we’ve made significant progress in reducing or eliminating the water footprint of that supply chain through our waterless renewa… …
… To achieve this, the automaker rebuilt its development process around a more modern software-defined architecture. “So all the lessons, all the polishing, all the infrastructure, all the learning stuff that has been quite painful over the last few years has now gone into the whole machinery and the… …
… Hawkins Apr 15 “A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health.” The NAACP is suing xAI to block Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center project outside of Memphis, TN, claiming that the project is operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit and in violation of the C… …
… As customers run more workflows through the system, OpenAI becomes harder to replace and more central to how work gets done. That is how we move from product vendor to operating infrastructure. …
… If and when the mandatory paperwork associated with an IPO filing is made public, we’ll get a sense of exactly how challenging the environment is for OpenAI — but it seems that OpenAI doesn’t have an easy road to do everything it’s trying to do and still stay solvent. …
… Instead, EmDash plugins use something called Dynamic Workers — a tool that allows AI agents to execute code in their own isolated environment, shielding the rest of your site in case things go wrong. …
… And all the while, Silicon Valley’s multitrillion-dollar push for AI adoption is clashing with their fears of its well-documented impacts — on the environment, disinformation, academic integrity, and our social fabric and emotional well-being, to name just a few. “The part that feels scariest to me… …
… By contrast, the US currently has negative net immigration, low birth rates, and consistently underfunded education; there is no equivalent human-capital “wave” to support a similar jobs boom in data centers and AI, he says. “The waves of industrialization accompanied waves of human capital into th… …
… The group’s white paper notes that Europe’s data currently has three routes to Asia, none of them ideal: through the Red Sea, through Russia, or through the US, a “long route controlled by non-European entities.” The cable would make Europe’s data infrastructure more resilient, lower latency betwee… …
… AI translation requires quiet environments where you don’t have cross talk, which don’t materialize often. …