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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ongoing infrastructure changes with AI in the USA
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:26:19 -0800
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:00:01 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>I am on the periphery of the ongoing blanketing of the USA with AI=20
>>servers.  I have a few facts that might just blow you away.
>>
>>The expected number of AI servers in the USA alone is presently a=20
>>million (SWAG).  The current cost for a single AI server is $500,000 =
US.
>>    1,000,000 x $500,000 =3D $500 billion US of capital.
>
>First, What is your source for this data?  Be specific.
>
>Second, define precisely what an "AI server" is.

I suggest two reasons why defining "AI server" precisely is not
feasible:

1. Nobody knows -- an AI Server is whatever the makers make it be.

2. The tech will change, so, even if a "precise definition" existed
today, next week it might well be outmoded.

Bit-coin mining is meeting with opposition from local communities with
stressed electric systems. AI Servers will as well, I expect.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"