[Terr_]

Ugh, what violation of local law can't be excused by specious "national security" claims?

> resulting in a corresponding increase in three major air pollutants:

Sometimes I wonder how valuable it would be to go to vulnerable areas (ecologically or socio-economically) and record baseline pollution, noise, etc. readings, simply to give future residents some statistical ammunition against some New Thing ruins the old implicit standard of safety and comfort.

I guess the problem is you don't always know what to measure until it's nearly too late, such as if the problem is a new chemical that needs a particular test to measure, or noise that isn't about raw decibels but causes problems with particular frequencies and harmonics, etc.

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>The company, which is now a division of SpaceX, is likely to buy more generators in the coming months or years. In SpaceX’s IPO filing, the company said that it will buy another $2.8 billion worth of gas turbines to power its AI data centers over the next three years. Of that, at least $2 billion are earmarked for “mobile gas turbines.”

SpaceX, the new Tesla... who saw that coming? :(

[boothby]

Timnit Gebru was laughed out of town for overlooking research into making LLMs more energy efficient. By the logic used to drag her through the mud, Musk must be a total idiot to be buying so much fossil fuel capacity. Truly, nobody could see this coming. Must be 5d chess.

[wernerb]

Won't the power that is saved not just be used for more LLMs at this stage?

[trhway]

I'd not be surprised if SpaceX/Elon will start manufacturing those turbines. They do have necessary engineering and manufacturing chops.

[stymaar]

They will probably start a program in this direction, but don't expect it to convert to actual manufacturing before a few years. It's not exactly the kind of thing you can do in a month.

[protocolture]

Rotating Company

[thisisit]

It is no longer about making good faith claims in court. It is all about RW media dog and pony show. They can make provably false claims in the RW media with - "Do you want China to overtake US in this race?" and still garner support. And even if they lose they can paint the judge as leftist etc. so they have stopped bothering with even trying.

[ffsm8]

Your focus on "RW" is misguided. The "LW" constantly lie and gaslight too.

You probably just don't take offense there because it more closely aligns with your personal world view - or you dismiss it as the ramblings of a madman, without realizing that you aren't doing the same for "RW".

It's a sad reality we live in. And it's the same in my country (not American), albeit not as extreme as it is in the US right now.

[JumpCrisscross]

> what violation of local law can't be excused by specious "national security" claims?

None. If this continues, the economy pivots to profits to the President.

[YeahThisIsMe]

Lmao, you're a little late there.

[mikestaas]

In case you haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo