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I'm old enough to remember the last time OpenAI was pledging to build a big stupid supercomputer called Stargate. Nobody wanna talk about this? How stupid this shit is? How absolutely stupid all of this god damn generative AI shit is?

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I've been hesitant to outright say that we're in an artificial intelligence bubble, or at least I was until I read that Microsoft and OpenAI are currently planning to build a $100 billion supercomputer dubbed "Stargate." The six-year-long project is contingent on "OpenAI's ability to meaningfully improve the capabilities of its AI" according to The Information's sources, and would require "as much as five gigawatts of power." To give context, one gigawatt is enough to power 750,000 homes. The Information's story is vague about the progress required to launch Stargate — it's a multi-phase operation, currently "in the middle" of its third phase, adding that the datacenter would potentially cost $10 billion to build, and that half of the $100 billion total cost could be made up of specialist AI chips. The article is vague, likely because building Stargate is at this point somewhat theoretical. Microsoft allegedly has to find new ways to fit more GPUs (the graphics process unit that is used in AI compute) in a single rack (the way that servers are mounted in a datacenter), and find an entirely new way of cooling them to make Stargate run. It would also need to source enough energy to power an entire city.
January 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
baropbop.bsky.social
In a very sanitized way that he can completely ignore.
June 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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No he's not. He's not seeing one bit of it.
June 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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It's because no one will speak to him off camera.
June 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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And probably a few Second City sketches.
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jun 14
The first person arrested by the Marines is an Army veteran who was on his way to work at the Veterans Administration. It appears he was arrested for crossing a yellow line which the Marines did not realize was not designed to exclude federal employees from reporting to work.
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM