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What's slowing down the AI buildout
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Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#82I think at the very least, once the dust settles, a lot of these datacenters could become really really cool haunted houses, giant escape rooms, etc. The real "AI" success story will be the person that makes an IRL backrooms theme park in the husk of a datacenter. Or: laser tag park, the vests you wear are in part old tpu/gpu components.
Or: filming location for the next Bond movie
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#83"The primary bottleneck to this growth is the availability of electricity."
We put the cart before the horse, lets stop talking about growth and focus on making it useful first lmao
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#84Project Kilby is probably the most intelligent approach to this problem so far. https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-signs-20-ye... The idea is to bring the data centers, power generators and energy supply together in the ~same physical space so the only thing you have to transmit is data. Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information.
> Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information But this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#85"The primary bottleneck to this growth is the availability of electricity." We put the cart before the horse, lets stop talking about growth and focus on making it useful first lmao
Totally agree. One thing the AI bros believe though is that growth == useful. If you strongly believe that the larger the model the smarter it is then you think through growth we get AGI which implicitly is useful because reasons.
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
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Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#87Remember when we didn't have enough electricity for electric cars?
Have you seen the price of electricity? That's with only about 5% of cars being electric. We've consumed nearly all of the slack in transmission capacity. I'm expecting transmission costs to balloon.
Is that from the popularity of evs, or from data centers?
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#88Apparently they're fast tracking gas fired power plant approvals, so we can expect production to increase and the climate crisis to worsen. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/donald-trump-ep...
Supposedly the backlog for gas turbines is over 5 years at this point, so they can approve all they want.
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#89Project Kilby is probably the most intelligent approach to this problem so far. https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-signs-20-ye... The idea is to bring the data centers, power generators and energy supply together in the ~same physical space so the only thing you have to transmit is data. Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information.
The ocean tidal power data center idea was a neat one.
I don’t see how that generates anywhere near enough power, think about the potential energy of a bucket of water going up and down that amount over the course of a day.
Re: What's slowing down the AI buildout
#90I think at the very least, once the dust settles, a lot of these datacenters could become really really cool haunted houses, giant escape rooms, etc. The real "AI" success story will be the person that makes an IRL backrooms theme park in the husk of a datacenter. Or: laser tag park, the vests you wear are in part old tpu/gpu components.
Or: filming location for the next Bond movie
“Do you expect me to code?”
“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to prompt!”