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softwaredoug
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Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute cap...
> compute from its Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, that xAI — now part of SpaceX — originally built for its own artificial intelligence efforts.
Is this the same Memphis data center notorious for burning jet fuel nonstop for power?
prism56
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Not surprised. I work in the gas turbine market and this AI boom has revolutionised our business and investments, oil and gas is dead. (to us)
polski-g
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What would you prefer it to burn instead?
margalabargala
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I'd prefer it to absorb photons and wind kinetic energy, and store it in lithium batteries.
liveoneggs
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probably boiling water with nuclear energy?
polski-g
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They might do that in 16 years when the next reactor comes online.
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Is this the same Memphis data center notorious for burning jet fuel nonstop for power?