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I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.

113 points•bingden•3 days ago•38 comments•
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Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.

31 points•sbulaev•6 days ago•15 comments•
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22 points•mikhael•9 days ago•20 comments•
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In this post, we’ll share our current guidelines for the internal use of artificial intelligence and potential areas of experimentation.

12 points•hn_acker•2 days ago•3 comments•
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Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.

10 points•voxadam•6 days ago•3 comments•
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You know it's cold when you have to heat the air used to cool your data center.

10 points•pushcx•almost 12 years ago•0 comments
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Europe's AI data center buildout is creating a power problem that cannot be solved by adding more...

6 points•alifar•6 days ago•0 comments
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Oracle is reportedly looking to delay payment on Project Jupiter if it the data center fails to come online in 2028

5 points•cramer4next•7 days ago•1 comment•
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AI's data center boom could demand 3.6% of GDP in annual investment through 2032—financed increasingly through debt structures that mask real risk.

4 points•Balgair•6 days ago•0 comments•
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4 points•dgellow•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Critics of the data center in St. Louis, Missouri, worry about its water usage, the impact on the city’s air quality and utility costs

4 points•xlayn•9 days ago•0 comments•
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And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

3 points•HotGarbage•1 day ago•0 comments•
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3 points•naughtiusmax•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Earth-bound data centers are going to be around for a while, but Google is just one company looking to put them into space.

3 points•pseudolus•5 days ago•1 comment•
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Mistakes at Israeli startup Irregular sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents after real-world targets.

3 points•meredithbloom•5 days ago•0 comments•
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"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

2 points•pluc•7 days ago•0 comments•
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"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

2 points•toomanyrichies•8 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•master_crab•9 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•elsewhen•about 14 hours ago•0 comments•
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1 points•bc3mc2•3 days ago•1 comment•
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1 points•paulpauper•5 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•hodgesrm•6 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•vrganj•6 days ago•1 comment•
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Pedlars refrence center for help and advice. Regulated not for profit

1 points•Bluestein•7 days ago•0 comments•
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The AI market's center of gravity is mid-tier inference, & three forces are driving its prices down : lab rivalry, open weights & fine tuning.

1 points•simonpure•7 days ago•0 comments•
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When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.

1 points•gk1•7 days ago•0 comments•
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"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

1 points•cdrnsf•8 days ago•0 comments•
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Customize a modern knowledge base template, preview it live, and download working HTML, 6 article blueprints, and a practical launch toolkit. Free and open source.

1 points•ivanpenchev•9 days ago•0 comments•
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What is linear pluggable optics (LPO)? Learn how LPO vs DSP optics differ, and why LPO is cutting data center power consumption in AI interconnect deployments.

1 points•peter_d_sherman•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Imagine the feeling after being able to hack into the NASA center and copy all their files about an...

0 points•scofieldidehen•7 days ago•0 comments
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Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised. And it has sent liaisons into those communities to learn what those needs are. But ask those liaisons how much the company is willing to invest, and the answers can be hard to come by. At community meetings, Microsoft representatives have seemed unprepared to answer questions that go beyond the company's “good neighbor” campaign materials, Ars has learned. The company has acknowledged in public-facing documents that simply matching its employees’ charitable donations—which totaled $229 million across 29,000 nonprofits in 2024—isn't enough. But it has been vague about what more substantial local investments might look like. And to critics, Microsoft’s local investments seem especially small compared with the estimated hundreds of millions in state-level tax breaks that data center developers get in 38 states—exemptions that often last more than a decade. Read full article Comments

0 points•Ashley Belanger•3 days ago•0 comments
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In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission , sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI . As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few months, these seemed like separate incidents. But many share a common source: one specific company tasked with testing the agents. Irregular , an Israeli startup that stress-tests AI models in "high-fidelity research platforms that simulate and monitor real-world AI security scenarios … Read the full story at The Verge.

0 points•Robert Hart•6 days ago•0 comments
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This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. DataOne got hit with the fine after an investigation by The Guardian and Floodlight News in August shared thermal drone footage showing that 45 of the 62 gas generators were operating. None of the generators had permits required for generators with 37-kilowatt capacity or higher, despite running at 1,982-kw capacities more than 50 times higher than the state limit. States track gas generators like DataOne uses because they emit “carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and other combustion-related pollutants,” officials from New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) noted. Those pollutants can worsen asthma, trigger heart attacks, and cause early deaths. Read full article Comments

0 points•Ashley Belanger•6 days ago•0 comments

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