In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov predicted that eventually, nearly everything on Earth would be automated, leading to mass unemployment. He then predicted that the “excess population” would move to other star systems, which served 3 purposes: reducing unemployment on earth, providing a meaningful existence for the extrasolar colonists, and spreading humanity throughout the galaxy.

I can’t tell whether you’re being downvoted because people don’t like the china-dog-eating stereotype, or because this is not the correct answer to “why China?”.

It’s hard for me to forget the video with a pile of dogs skinned alive and still moving.

There are so many precious details. The look of jealousy on the dog’s face as the dolphin-man-kebab and his woman are copulating. The dog-baby nursing. The five-o’clock shadow on the lonely dolphin-man-kebab.

This looks like a job for… The Defedestrator

Sure, but are you big-endian or little-endian?

Dey already buns

I am a simple man. I see a catloaf, I upvote.

You are both right. Data centers have both data storage and processing.

Ask Claude lol

Social liberal now. Before that, libertarian.

Actually, “majority-rule (Condorcet) methods of ranked voting uniquely minimize the number of spoiled elections by restricting them to voting cycles, which are rare in ideologically-driven elections.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem

Striving to maximize profit is what companies do. Blaming them is not useful. Instead, advocate for and promote government policies that would disincentivize fossil fuel use, like carbon taxes.

They only paid $470 million (equivalent to $1.03 billion in 2024)?? That’s not even 56 k$ (2024) per person. What in the fuck.

The whole Linux??

I’m not sure what PETA was thinking here… I’d reckon that it would be unlikely for people who respond to the proto-fascist propaganda style to consider going vegan.

It’s actually even worse than just taxpayers paying businesses: Since the US doesn’t have the tax revenue to pay the businesses, it will need to take out more debt to pay them. So the taxpayers will not only pay the businesses, but they will also pay interest. (That is, if you believe that the US will be able to stabilize its debt before defaulting. At the rate we’re going, with the looter class taking US government funds, the US will end up defaulting before taxpayers have a chance to pay down the debt. To be clear, a default would be far more painful than the austerity required to stabilize the debt.)

What do you mean by “evaporation cooling”? A fraction of the water evaporates to provide cooling, a fraction is discharged as purge to prevent solute accumulation, and the rest is recycled? I thought the main reason that datacenters consume as much water as they do is when they don’t recycle the water, and just use it once and then discharge it (no evaporation at all).