Sounds strangely familiar…
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Ahhh yess… its all coming back to me now…
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I want my own data centre…
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“Young people are getting real suspicious of all these large data centres and the environmental impact all in the name of large profit, data control and social manipulation… Any ideas?”
“What if we convinced old people to install smaller data centres in their sheds…”
“You’re on to something… they do hate the cold and… my god! I HAVE IT!”
I honestly don’t know how to feel about this, on one hand it feels like they’re taking advantage of vulnerable people and the other hand at least somebody is doing something to look after vulnerable people during the winter months etc…0
It’s certainly the most wholesome use of large servers I’ve seen but all these tech companies started out campaigning on promises of bettering conditions for everyone and they ultimately heel turned and made it worse.
So I’m just, I’m waiting for the worst to rear it’s head but also hoping that this is actually a really good project that helps a lot of people.
Also this line from the guy behind it kinda put shivers in my shivers shivers.
“Mr Theune adds the system provides “clean, green heat at a low-to-no price point” because “the electricity that’s generating that heat is paid for by somebody else”.”
Didn’t we already have a big talk with everyone about how Carbon Offsetting isn’t clean or green? This is essentially that same concept.
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The data processing is going to happen anyway. The electricity is going to be paid for, and consumed. The question is what happens to the heat. People are building data centres in the arctic, because cooling is cheaper. People are dumping data centre heat into the oceans.
In the meantime, people’s houses and workplaces get cold in the winter - and people are going to heat them. Whether they use coal, oil, gas, or electricity, they’re not going to do without heating.
So, accepting that the data centres are going to happen, and that home heating is going to happen, using one waste product to provide the other need seems to make a lot of sense.
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Okay but when your reality becomes a Dr Who episode and everyone’s shed suddenly grows mechanical appendages and starts eating residents, don’t say I didn’t warn you guys 
I actually might just sell that episode to the BBC but I feel like that already WAS a Dr Who episode of some form.
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Most things were…
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So the problem here in the US is data centers have been given a free pass to bypass all regulations, allowing them to be built in months not years.
The US has an aging power grid which currently runs only a quarter of what is needed for data centers that are scheduled to be built in the next year.
There is no way to build enough power plants in that amount of time.
In the meantime, power rates are already skyrocketing to pay for power that is not yet even required and cannot be met anyway.
And T has ended solar and wind projects left and right and won’t allow many scheduled ones to be built .
Heating your home with a data center here would require your own private solar farm to run. I can’t imagine the amount of funds needed to see it through
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Haven’t heard from CRISPR in a while, this sounds promising.
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I am at a loss…
I mean, I get what they’re trying to do there. I’m not getting why. Eco-friendly Protein? We have eco-friendly protein! Just eat the bloody soy ourselves instead of getting it processed by cows. Or, you know, good old Beans. Our problem is not non-animal protein sources at all, we’ve had those for all of human existence. The agrarian age would never have happened without it.
Our problem is producing it in a form that has a chance of economically competing with meat. So far, meat is winning because it’s just… better, and more versatile, and the cost disadvantage is not big enough to deter people. Our problem is not the proliferation of protein, our problem is convincing people to eat it.
Proliferating protein through a mechanism that is also a potential weapon of mass destruction… I’m not sure it’s going to be extremely popular… 
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And it likely costs a small fortune
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Beans are an absolute miracle food. They even come in coffee form 
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The musical fruit.
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I hate to be that guy but they really should grind the beans before using this machine 
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I don’t need a watermark to tell that picture is fake. It’s pretty sloppy if it was meant to convince anybody.
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I have a new favorite thing to do. Watching ads for rewards in mobile games has yeilded AI generated ads that look nothing like the actual game. It has become a game within a game to watch these ads and spot all the errors. They can be quite amusing.
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We did have those before, though. It’s due to adds for mobile games simply being made for generating the clicks. You get one download and get to show two adds to someone new, that’s all you needed. So you make an add that you think has the best chances of generating those downloads, no matter whether they have something to do with the actual game or not.
It’s basically a race between how much money can you generate by the adds you can show people in your lousy app vs. how much money you need to spend on adds to generate enough downloads for your app. It’s an utterly ridiculous business model and possibly the most… Moloch thing I have ever seen, for lack of a better word. It’s completely devoid of… everything. It’s not even evil, it’s just… utterly hollow. I find it difficult to describe, honestly.
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Oh I agree. It’s like they are making money from the ads. Who cares about the game
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