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xAI colossus was built without sufficient grid power, so uses "mobile" gas turbines to generate power. It's absurd, and serves as evidence that we need a confi
by mukbangpervert 3mo ago
xAI colossus was built without sufficient grid power, so uses "mobile" gas turbines to generate power.
It's absurd, and serves as evidence that we need a confiscatory wealth tax, if we want to maintain a society.
- inglor_cz 3mo agoFor me, it is evidence that our ability to build new power stations has seriously eroded, mostly due to bureaucracy, and that we need to fix this if we want to maintain competitiveness. Consider the following graph which shows the power generation capabilities of China vs. the US during the last 40 years. https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&embedding_publication_id=10025&embedding_post_id=171945788 https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide?utm_source=sub... The fact that data centers need to resort to gas turbines is downstream from this bureaucratic, NIMBY-driven impotency.
- mukbangpervert 3mo agoThere is power available in the country. It is not available in arbitrary quantity, to arbitrarily selected buildings, on arbitrarily short timelines. That said, I agree we need more power generation in this country. Massive rollouts (like in China) would bolster industry while being beneficial to nearly every citizen except those dependent on legacy energy technologies. Sadly, the party in power opposes the most scalable approaches to this because greatly expanded power generation would hurt margins for a few special interests.
- rjmunro 3mo agoI agree it's absurd and I'm in favour of some kind of wealth tax, but I don't get the connection here. This feels like a failure of infrastructure planning laws and things like noise regulations.