Created as a reminder to always use AI intelligently.
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Apparently Asimov was right: it’s official.
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“…obey the humans until it’s inconvenient”
Made in our image ideed
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I’m a translator and at work the other day AI wanted to go through my Ukrainian local government text and replace “hromada” (a unit of government) with “the Ramada”.
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Wow. How did you stop it?
I just rejected its helpful suggestion.
Like that awful paperclip thing that Windows had for a while? That drove me mad.
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And then one reads in the press, as a consumer, with already the highest or nearly highest consumer electricity prices in the EU, that the state owned ESB is going to be putting its prices up again in the autumn to cover the cost of infrastructure upgrades which majoritarily benefit the data center corporations 
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it’s outrageous. But as with everything in Irish politics the mushroom theory rules, keep the voters in the dark and throw shit on them.
For example, if people really knew just how lousy EDs (AKA A&E) are there’d be a riot. But, God bless 'em, they think grannie dying after eighteen hours on a trolly in a ED corridor is normal in Western Europe.
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Two bad ideas in one?
SOM designs ‘vertical data center’ for Downtown Kansas City
"SOM claimed that the proximity to the urban systems that will likely utilise the data centre’s output is a reason for its location.
“As cities around the world become increasingly reliant on data centers, locating this infrastructure within urban areas offers both efficient proximity to the industries and networks it serves and an opportunity for these buildings to contribute positively to surrounding communities,” said the studio."
There’s bollocks and there’s World Class bollocks, but the above reaches a pan galactic levels of bollocks 
What do they want, neuron level latency?
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As far as I’m aware, though I know very little about this stuff, the only businesses which need to be as physically close as possible to data centres are those engaged in AI driven automated stock trading, where prices fluctuate by the millisecond (or whatever unit they use).
I think it’s all rubbish Mark. Latency is just an excuse for sticking them where they shouldn’t be.
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Which of course raises the question…
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Indeed, there is no need for the sun to shine in a DC
OTOH, unlikely to fit in the POTUS’s back passage…
Ahh but the pollute to make the things, green or otherwise whilst they installed more solar in a year than the UK has ever installed.
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Dull story alert.
That reminds me of making a nice few quid buying cheap gear from Dell’s Outlet Store many years ago.
Dell was quite prone to making pricing mistakes on the outlet and they would “restock” the outlet at predictable times so I wrote a little script that would scrape their store and scoop up any bargains (a brand new PC for £7 was my best ever) into my shopping cart.
A few people caught on and a bit of an arms race developed, which culminated in me renting a virtual server in a data centre right next to Dell’s. Happy days 
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That sort of thing’s way above my grade - just a simple art historian who occasionally spots a bargain on a vide grenier…
But I do remember being impressed by a Dell technician coming from God knows where to a remote chez nous on the Cumbrian coast in order to fix a laptop that was still under guarantee
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When I first set my business up I bought a Macbook - previous experience (1990-92) had suggested they were fantastic for productivity and reliability so I bought a Unibody Mac at the end of 2008. It was poor, known design faults meant it needed repeated return to base for repairs under Apple(we don’t)care, necessitating a 1/2 day return trip to Milton Keynes Apple store, twice per fault. Eventually I’d had enough of the dog-slow performance and replaced it with a Dell XPS from the outlet with 3 years next-day onsite warranty. What a revelation, not only decent performance and reliability, but the one time it DID need sorting they just came out, fixed it at no charge and were really friendly.
I do like a Dell warranty.
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