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Microsoft said they were going to spend 80 Billion on AI data centers, and they confirmed this again, so there is no 'scaling back'. Speculation: I suspect af
by PeterStuer 2y ago
Microsoft said they were going to spend 80 Billion on AI data centers, and they confirmed this again, so there is no 'scaling back'.
Speculation:
I suspect after they observed the incredible speed with which Grok was able to build out a leading edge AI infrastructure themselves in Memphis, far faster than what the traditional data-centers could offer it, Microsoft might have had an epiphany and went 'wait, why are we not doing this?'
- topaz0 2y ago"Why aren't we polluting a poor disenfranchised population with the cheapest, dirtiest solution we can find?"
- mistrial9 2y agosomehow, Memphis, an ancient Egypt royal center and core of a grand imperial slave state.. is such a fitting name for these developments
- kragen 2y agoAncient Egypt was neither imperial nor a slave state; though it did have slavery, most Egyptians were not slaves.
- mistrial9 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
- kragen 2y agoThese pages are somewhat out of date, but they confirm what I said: "Ancient Egypt was a peasant-based economy and it was not until the Greco-Roman period that slavery had a greater impact."
- mistrial9 2y agono - by not specifying which Kingdom you were referring to, it revealed an incomplete, obstinate, reactive answer.. (as I have also done many times) So my remedy to that today was to read a bit before further damage is done. Non-English pages might also be useful on this massive and historical topic