sure would be a shame if someone hooked up the 4X4 to the power line and knocked it down. or got a back hoe and dug it up… just saying thats a great way to conseve power. i hope to hear about the AI outage black outs all next week…
That sucks. I remember everyone pointing and laughing at California because the state was being defrauded by Enron, which caused regular brownouts.
I ain’t do that. If you are in Virginia (or anywhere else, but since this post is about Virginia) and need help cooling off, pour water on your forearm. I learned it as left forearm because it’s barely closer to your heart, but I haven’t noticed a difference. You’re getting better air cooling because of the water, and it’s on your forearm which gets a lot of bloodflow. Also you aren’t getting your clothes wet. Old farmer’s trick.
I lived through those brownouts but I was a teen and didn’t understand what was going on, just that it was annoying. We had just moved into a house in a very hot part of town where the wind goes to die and it suuuuucked.
If Virginians aren’t surrounding the county government building, 24/7, with firearms…
Your fucking state motto is Sic Semper Tyranis.
Live up to it, or never be taken seriously, about anything, ever again.
You know what happened in Iceland in the 07/08 financial crisis?
Something like 1/3 to 2/3 of the entire population of the island surrounded parliament, literally with pitchforks, untill they actually prosecuted the criminal financiers for their actual financial crimes.
Iceland is basically the only Western country that didn’t bail out their bankster fraud artists, and sent them to fucking prison, instead.
Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but NEVER fly a drone near a transformer
all you be hearing is datacenter noise.
Hahahahahah
It’s becoming painfully obvious that there is no way to ethically use frontier models powered by these monstrosities. It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
This is insanity.
It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
In other words, this shit is killing people? I don’t think many houses in the US are made so that you can survive 38°C outside without A/C ?
The only reasonable response to these requests is fuck you figure out your data center power issues yourself.
Power is for the people.
They are being paid. Why else would they doom their own people? You won’t stop it if you don’t stop them.
Tuckahoe
Oh, there are definitely ethical ways to use these models. It’s just that those methods are not being enforced by local counties or your governments. Thus, companies are able to do whatever the hell they want, which means it’s going to be unethical by default.
What we need is regulation, enforcement, and a stop letting these companies trample all over everything they want to.
Fuck that. Now I am going to shower even harder.
Won’t somebody think of the datacenters??!
Won’t somone think of the job creators??!
Won’t somebody think of the billionaire fossil fuel owners?
What about the shareholders?
They should be investigating more wisely?
If I lived in Virginia County, I’d do my part and use as much electricity as I could. Bring the grid down, piss everyone off, and call out the fucktards who are blaming “the people”, rather than the data centers.
Why couldn’t they ask data centers to conserve power?
No reliable national grid and no coordinated expansion of power plant capacity and an economy built on IT services. That’s a bold strategy.
Long story, the US has three main grids last I heard. East, West, and Texas. The grid could be reliable, but why when can raise rates and not?
That’s capitalism! Planning is an anathema.
And a rapid move to electric cars and the revoking of solar and wind incentives.
Electric cars aren’t as big of a strain on the grid as big oil and gas would have you believe. Most people charge their car at home at slower speeds (compared to DCFC) and usually overnight when there’s less power demand anyway. It’s cheaper and more convenient this way, plus it flattens the duck curve which allows more stable and consistent generational load. I have a longer commute than most at about 90 miles round trip, and my monthly power usage is only up by about 300-400kWh/month. Average in VA is about 1100, but I was a bit below that before the EV at around 900-1000, now around 1300. That sounds like a lot but it really isn’t. The power plant I operate generally puts out about 700MW, or 700,000kW. At that load, my plant could replenish the same commute as my car’s needs for nearly 32,000 cars in only an hour, every hour. My home’s entire month of above average power needs is met in an hour of operation… Along with over 500 homes with identical power needs.
I can’t argue with you about revoking incentives for solar and wind. What a stupid fucking move. I’m not going to pretend that putting solar panels on my roof could’ve ever achieved net zero for my home, but I could’ve relieved some grid strain during the day while simultaneously investing in cheaper overall energy bills.
Speaking of cheaper energy bills, the EV also did that for me; electricity bill is $50-60 higher but I now have no reason to stop at a gas pump or pay for oil changes. Before gas prices spiked earlier this year, each commute in my RAV4 cost me about $10 in gas, plus some amount for maintenance that I’ll just ignore for now. My commute when charging at home costs closer to $3.50. I’m saving about $100/month on fueling up. A lot of people have told me they’d never get an EV in a million years, and I get that it’s not for everybody and I’m not forcing it on anybody, but for anybody with the ability to charge at home and who is generally just doing normal commutes and who is already looking to replace their car, I don’t understand the aversion. If cost is the main factor, get a used one like I did since they’re about half price, and stop looking at the luxury/sports models. If range anxiety is a factor, it shouldn’t be one for most people. I limit my charge to 75% battery to extend my car’s battery life, and my commute only drains it to like 30% even while blasting AC, and my car only has a max range of 250 miles when new! I even did a road trip last month and it was fine. I barely did any extra waiting to charge since we were already stopping for food or bathroom breaks anyway, even while my car’s shitty 50kW charge rate (most modern cars can do at least 150, some around 350) left us with much longer charge times!
There’s a ton of propaganda against EVs, and it really took getting one for me to see how ridiculous so much of it was. Used ones are gonna get more expensive and harder to find as the truth comes out.
Oh, so Virginia is going to be the sacrificial state, good for them.
They voted for all this shit.
I believe VA has more data centers than any other state.
