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The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The edge is where it’s at

Interview with Nick about the post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rLzNxRjEQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251107-nicholas-weaver-the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter - podcast

time: 26 min 53 sec

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm failing to see the ambiguity here. He repeatedly says it's in the devices (PC, phones) and then that it's on the edge. So those devices are what he means by the edge.

This comes across as failure to read the text.