The AI Execs Bet Wrong - What Now?

For context, the California almond industry employs over a hundred thousand people, produces about 80% of the entire world almond supply, and extends over a million acres where that water use supports not only the trees themselves but tens of billions of pollinators (domesticated and wild) and other wildlife.

To make data-center water use look comparatively minor, you have to resort to comparing one processing plant employing maybe a dozen people to an entire industry employing ten thousand times as many (and getting a much broader spectrum of benefits out of its water use).

That just highlights how exceptionally wasteful the data-center model is.

Huang is also being summoned to Congress to answer for his falling for a Chinese honeypot spy, lol: Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of a Chinese spy plot — officials mention growing concerns over national security | Tom's Hardware

I guess his motivations will forever be in question from now on.


As for data centers, two stories from this week: