This is going to turn several red states blue.
The GOP should not be on the AI data center side. It’s like the Patriot Act.
I’ll bet you that over half of the people in Abiline don’t even know that they have one of the largest AI data centers in their town. The ones that do probably love it and wouldn’t change it for the world, as it has increased property values and brought high-wage consumers to their businesses.
I can see though, how if you’ve got a knee jerk political reaction, or this industry is moving your cheese, so to speak, AND if you do not read the article very carefully and just look at the headline, or do any independent reasoning or research at all, that you could get a dopamine hit out of it by making you feel righteously justified and wiser than most, which is the only value I see in the article.
The solution is so simple. Just as AI how it can run itself more efficiently using less electricity.
All of this for search engines on steroids. What a fraud.
If some nuclear power generation isn’t brought online fairly soon, AI power stations will create havoc with our bills. Maybe those power stations should be restricted to using their own ‘green’ power supplies.
Electric power companies should have special rates (higher) for those AI installations so our normal rates will not be affected.
Data center in our county planned.
Residents have no say.
Tapping into our state owned lake.
Thanks state Republicans for doubling our power bill and ruining our farmland.
Change brings about change. Is this any different then when the figgered out how to make steel on an industrial scale?
My neighbor works for a major power generating facility. He said they have a billion dollar contract to expand specifically to power an AI data center.
On AI I see nothing stopping this train. Perhaps it can be regulated. But sometimes that sort of medicine can be worse than no regulations depending on who does the regulating.
For some reason I am reminded of this dialogue from the 1st Star Trek movie.
SPOCK: Captain, V’Ger is a child. I suggest you treat it as such.
KIRK: A child?
SPOCK: Yes, Captain, a child. Evolving, learning, searching, instinctively needing.
DECKER: Needing what?
McCOY: Spock! This thing is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
SPOCK: It only knows that it needs, Commander. But like so many of us, it does not know what.
There is a Swiss company, Polariton, working with Nokia on their Data center IIRC. They use a electro optical polymer product called Perkamine from U.S. Company LWLG that allows them to operate at something like 1v and does not require on board chip cooling like standard semiconductors and copper lines.
https://www.polariton.ch/about-us
"Polariton Technologies leads the way in high-speed, energy-efficient plasmonic modulators and photonic integrated circuit (PIC) components. Our cutting-edge Plasmonic Design Kit (Polariton PDK) enables groundbreaking advancements in optical communication, offering unmatched bandwidth, ultra-low power consumption, and compact designs."
"Plasmonic Building Blocks are at the core of our PDK, providing the essential elements for high-speed, low-power optical signal processing. These components, including phase shifters, ring resonators, antennas, and couplers, leverage plasmonic technology to achieve compact designs with superior efficiency. By integrating Plasmonic Building Blocks, designers can create innovative photonic circuits with unprecedented performance in bandwidth and energy consumption."
One of the products they use to do this is from U.S. Tech company :
https://www.lightwavelogic.com/
"Lightwave Logic, Inc. (Nasdaq: LWLG) is a technology platform company, leveraging its proprietary technology to develop next-generation Electro-Optic – “EO” – polymers which increase the efficiency of internet infrastructure by allowing more data to be transmitted at significantly higher speeds and with less power than existing solutions."
They indicate they can integrate this on current semiconductor foundry operations with existing machinery and processes and without requiring a complete foundry retool. The product has passed an extensive reliability test (Swiss company) and a number of foundries and larger companies are currently doing their own product evaluations using their own standards.
I think the first one is a privately held Swiss company. I have some shares in LWLG (Speculative Investment). Of course this is no recommendation. Keep in mind your investment goals and tolerances and do your own evaluations and Due Diligence!