Re: ongoing infrastructure changes with AI in the USA

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:00:01 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

I am on the periphery of the ongoing blanketing of the USA with AI
servers.  I have a few facts that might just blow you away.
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The expected number of AI servers in the USA alone is presently a
million (SWAG).  The current cost for a single AI server is $500,000 US.
   1,000,000 x $500,000 = $500 billion US of capital.

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First, What is your source for this data?  Be specific.
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Second, define precisely what an "AI server" is.

I suggest two reasons why defining "AI server" precisely is not
feasible:

1. Nobody knows -- an AI Server is whatever the makers make it be.

2. The tech will change, so, even if a "precise definition" existed
today, next week it might well be outmoded.

Bit-coin mining is meeting with opposition from local communities with
stressed electric systems. AI Servers will as well, I expect.
--
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"