Jackson Jambalaya

How about for 2026 we start counting the number of water buckets Sid carries each month for the establishment?

Don't worry! There were over 2,000 'new' contracting companies in one year. Open book test for a license. I guess they require them to read ... but not comprehend the skills necessary for the license. I can take open book tests all day long and pass. Bet everyone reading this can too!
Lots of power and fraud in construction. Biggest lobby in the state. They sling out licenses like candy at a parade. Wonder how many federal dollars are involved?

This AI datacenter growth is impossible without nuclear power. We cant built full scale nuclear power generating plants fast enough. So we are going to be forced to rely on SMR’s. Unfortunately, its an idea that looks good on paper for a perfect society. There is no chance that in a nation rife with out of control corruption, torn asunder by deviant political factions in thrall to a burgeoning blackmail conspiracy, and full of illegal drug cartel's, jihadist sleeper cells and chicom agents all plotting destruction and death to America, that anything, not even the slightest thing could go wrong with the plan to dot the continent with hundreds if not thousands of small nuclear reactors - which are I repeat - safe and effective- and will make America glow with greatness again

Where were the 2,000 new contracting companies formed?

He's going to need a lot of water buckets to store reserve water with as much water as those data centers need to cool their servers.

It's impossible to imagine a worse investment for economic development than datacenters.

They are massive nuisances, driving up the cost of electricity and employing few (someday, perhaps no) human workers. What they are effective at is powering companies toward developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which will replace 10,000 workers for every one employed in a datacenter. Although at least in the case of xAI, it won't matter much as they are being left in the dust and have no real shot at competing in that arena.

As usual, Mississippi has failed to invest in the education and infrastructure to attract real jobs, and instead arrives hat in hand begging for the worst scraps of economic development, while our "leaders" pretend it's a victory - like a losing football coach bragging that the increase in the average margin of defeat is slowing.

It's been this way here since the industrial revolution, so it's no surprise it continues into the third economic revolution since then that we've missed out on.

Data Centers should pay their own way both in power and water. These costs have not been shared with the people that will end up paying the higher rates as was pointed out by Wyatt Emmerich.

@10:23 AM

i have a 100% liquid cooled, high performance AI rig at home. It is a custom-built, closed loop cooling system cooling four old RTX 3090’s and a Threadripper 3990WX. I built this during the covid scamdemic. I have minimal evaporation. With that said, the evap goes into thre atmospheric water cycle just like any other evaporation.

@11:20
Although at least in the case of xAI, it won't matter much as they are being left in the dust and have no real shot at competing in that arena.

You need to study history my friend. Go back to Beta vs VHS, Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, Meta Quest vs Apple Vision.

It’s all about PORN!
xAI is a GOONERS DREAM with the absolute minimal amount of censorship. They are about to bypass the whole payment gatekeeping system with xPay.

The only way xAI can loose is if the rest of the pack gives in and allows GOONERS to open their wallets for the most degenerate, most debased, pornographic content their sick minds can create!

@11:24am - Time to upgrade that peasant 3090 to a 5090, if you can find one.

@12:10
Not spending any more money on this hobby. Plus with four 3090s in quad SLi, I have 96 GB of VRAM combined with my 256 GB of ECC DDR4. My TRX40 motherboard gives give me 64 PCIE lanes.

I’m not trying to break performance records. Just want tun any size models

@9:59

Saw something on the African drug addict’s platform formerly known as Twitter yesterday: in the China, there are 100 nuclear plants under construction. In the U.S., that number is two.

These data centers are going to be a monkey’s paw for states like Mississippi.

@2:14 PM
Interesting how just a few years ago you redditors loved Felon Musk so much when he was grifting Obama.

How much will we, the average homeowner, get screwed over for paying for the water and electric to drive these things.

Thats going to be hard to quantify. It’s not just the utilities. But your quality of life will be reduced as more and more human jobs get replaced by a glorified chatbot.