Now, when a terrorist attack occurs, he’s fully justified in declaring martial law.

It’s as good as over, folks. Checkmate.

Well, I work at an AI hyperscaler. I can tell you how much my facility uses, and how much each rack uses, but don’t have any way to determine what the customer is doing on that server. Or even which servers a given customer is using. Is it being used heavily for queries? How many? Of what kind? We don’t know. Only what the rack/row/pod/hall is consuming.

Also, does the network gear overhead count? How do you apportion that?

We have no visibility into the customer workload. Some of our customers use our systems for scientific research. Drugs, etc. How do you tally that?

I’m not saying that it is impossible, just that if the customer won’t pay for that report, we’re not going to spend money to build the systems to produce it.

Do I agree? No. But I’m just a grunt.

A problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.

I received a bunch of these texts

That’s the one! Thanks.

There was once a writing prompts story on reddit. The fifth horseman called Kyle. If anyone can, please repost it here. It was very good.

I vote for him.

You’re not going to get an argument from me.

A major bottleneck is power capacity. Is is very difficult to find 50Mwatts+ (sometime hundreds) of capacity available at any site. It has to be built out. That involves a lot of red tape, government contracts, large transformers, contractors, etc. the current backlog on new transformers at that scale is years. Even Google and Microsoft can’t build, so they come to my company for infrastructure - as we already have 400MW in use and triple that already on contract. Further, Nvidia only makes so many chips a month. You can’t install them faster than they make them.

I really like that.

Oh yeah.

My wife’s g-grandmother was Mary. Her daughters were Mary Margaret, Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, and Mary Alice. Newfies.

It already works like this. Audits perform this function. Failing a mandatory audit generally goes very poorly for financial companies. The unintended result is falsified audits - something my former company did (still does?) every year. The banks and the Fed never found out.

Good pens and good paper.

I’m in IT and do prefer to write for many tasks. When all I need is “Room, Rack, and U” to work on a system, a small scrap of paper is better than putting the laptop on the floor. I expect the role matters more than the industry.

Don’t forget mouse traps and other ways of keeping them safe from vermin.

Exactly.

My mom is over 80. Little old suburban white lady. She already volunteered - “Just get me close.” She’d be super-thrilled to have her shot with a suicide vest.

If SS payments stop, there will be hundreds of thousands of people with nothing left to lose.