Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their…
Category: AI
America’s AI Advantage Runs into Trouble in the Strait of Hormuz
The Iran war has shown two things at once. It has shown that AI now matters at operational speed, and it has shown that the material base required to sustain…
Launching AI into Orbit
Space has its own chokepoint that it is becoming more critical by the year. AI will determine who can operate in that domain and who cannot. The country that builds…
The data center energy threat is way overblown
But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.
Bixonimania: How AI Turned a Joke Diagnosis into “Peer‑Reviewed” Medicine
When a joke diagnosis morphs into “peer-reviewed” research, it is clear that the crisis in scientific credibility is no longer confined to sloppy research or corrupted journals but now extends…
Miliband blamed as OpenAI pulls out of £31bn investment plans over high energy costs in huge blow to Labour’s bid to make Britain an ‘AI superpower’
The California-based firm pointed to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty for its decision to pause its Stargate UK project.
Off-Grid Data Centers Will Help Protect Ratepayers, But Codifying ARC-ES Would Do Even More
With America’s 250th birthday right around the corner on July 4, it doesn’t require artificial intelligence to know that the biggest gift of all would be a guarantee of energy…
Stimulating Creativity in Human-Machine Teams
The question of how best to use artificial intelligence (AI) resources in the military, including for writing, is an important one.
Mocked, Dismissed… and Right: The Problem With ‘Trust the Experts
When a person with the right background and the right software can meaningfully engage with complex problems, the old lines start to blur.
The Two Biggest Myths About AI Data Centers
AI data centers are being built, whether most Americans like them or not. Around 3,000 were planned or under construction as of December. The good news is that there actually…
The AI Race Isn’t Just About Chips. It’s About Power.
The AI race will not be decided by algorithms alone. It will be decided by whether we can build the physical backbone on which advanced computing depends -power plants, transmission,…
AI may bring a cognitive renaissance to human thinking
It is conceivable that the growing revolutionary combination of Americans getting better information with more time to think will lead to a cognitive renaissance. It is certainly worth watching for.
Could a fully AI driven weather prediction system start a revolution in forecasting?
“Aardvark reimagines current weather prediction methods offering the potential to make weather forecasts faster, cheaper, more flexible and more accurate than ever before…