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*ORACLE AND OPENAI END PLANS TO EXPAND TEXAS DATA CENTER SITE
*ORACLE-OPENAI TALKS TO LEASE STARGATE EXPANSION SITE BROKE DOWN
*META IN DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPER CRUSOE TO LEASE EXPANDED SITE
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*ORACLE AND OPENAI END PLANS TO EXPAND TEXAS DATA CENTER SITE
*ORACLE-OPENAI TALKS TO LEASE STARGATE EXPANSION SITE BROKE DOWN
*META IN DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPER CRUSOE TO LEASE EXPANDED SITE
Uh...
Also, the flaws in this thing are obvious and jarring. At times the beast literally has two backs and the arms get flipped all backwards.
This is the golden age?
"eating the seed corn"
https://futurism.com/artificial-inte...verviews-mediaMedia workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, which summarize articles and present them to users in one easy-to-read digest.
But while users might be shaving precious seconds from their queries, online media publications are being roiled by the massive drop-off in clicks. That web traffic, SEO firm Growtika found, has dropped off significantly following the advent of Google’s AI Overviews.
The firm looked at data from Ahrefs trackingweb traffic to 10 major tech outlets from early 2024 to early 2026. At their peak, the media companies brought in 112 million site visits per month from Google users in the US. By January of this year, that number was down to a little under 50 million — with some outlets losing over 90 percent of their traffic since the new feature rolled out.
While some publications fared much worse than others, none of them are thriving. Mashable fared the best, losing a grim 30 percent of its web traffic between its peak and January 2026. That’s a lot, but it’s nothing compared to Wired, which lost 62 percent of its traffic, or the cluster of outlets including HowToGeek, The Verge, and ZDNet, which each lost over 85 percent of their web traffic over the two year period.
And the real sob story is tech outlet Digital Trends, which went from 8.5 million clicks a month in March 2024 to a heartbreaking 264,861 in January 2026. That’s an astonishing decline — a drop-off of 97 percent of US web traffic from Google.
As Growtika observed, the four worst-hit publications get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own.
Though Growtika holds that it can’t prove causation from traffic data on its own, it theorizes that the disruption is due to three combined issues: Google’s AI Overviews, which came out in mid-2024; a bump in the algorithm that boosts Reddit to the top of the charts; and the growing number of AI chatbot users who eschew Google entirely.
Crucially, the hardest hits came in mid-2025, when Google expanded its AI Overviews system to cover a much more expansive range of queries. In July of last year, the feature’s visibility peaked, with some 25 percent of all Google searches triggering an automatic summary.
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https://bsky.app/profile/pedrothedagger.bsky.social/post/3mgig3owic22xhot take? "AI is destroying internet media" is not the story here, it's "AI can delivers slop better than what's left of internet media post-private equity". AI summaries can't replace a @gamersnexus.bsky.social
vid. I stopped reading gaming sites when they fired all the writers I gave a about
wrong thread
https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/...s-retreat.htmlOracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data-center expansion as US banks retreat
Oracle is considering cutting 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from financing the company’s AI data-center expansion, according to investment bank TD Cowen.
The job cuts would free up $8 billion to $10 billion in cash flow, TD Cowen said in a research report seen by CIO. Oracle is also weighing a sale of its health-care software unit, Cerner, which it acquired for $28.3 billion in 2022.
The measures come as multiple US banks have pulled back from Oracle-linked data-center project lending. “Both equity and debt investors have raised questions regarding Oracle’s ability to finance this buildout,” the report said.
The financing challenge stems from the scale of Oracle’s infrastructure commitments, amounting to $156 billion in required capital expenditure, TD Cowen estimated.
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No thanks, bag.
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158
apparently Amazon's AI-coding tool Kiro fixes configuration issues by nuking the entire production environment, leading to outages and millions of lost orders
https://www.reuters.com/business/wor...nt-2026-03-14/Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as #Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said.
Top executives have recently signaled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told them to begin planning how to pare back, two of the people said. The sources spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to disclose the cuts.
"This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in response to questions about the plan.
If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31, according to its latest filing.
The company laid off 11,000 staffers in November 2022, or around 13% of its workforce at the time. Around four months later, it announced it was cutting another 10,000 jobs.
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government sh!tposting leads to a swift win in court for Anthropic
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket...?order_by=desc
Nothing in the governing statute,” Judge Lin wrote, “supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government
Anthropic wins preliminary injunction on every claim: First Amendment, Due Process, and Administrative Procedure Act.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...ipment-importsAmerica’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts
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As the global AI race heats up, there is a huge rush to build data centers fast. There’s no lack of money chasing these projects, with tech giants Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. committed to spending more than $650 billion this year alone. Yet neither ambition nor capital is enough to materialize all the necessary components for these power-hungry computers.
Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries. They are needed not just for powering AI, but also for building out the grid that is seeing increased consumption from electric cars and heat pumps. US manufacturing capacity for these devices cannot keep up with demand, and the scarcity has caused data center builders to rely on imports.
Electrification is a key solution to both tackling climate change and powering AI ambitions. But America’s AI prowess on computer chips and cutting-edge software is being hamstrung by the country’s inability to manufacture the electrical parts. “There’s not enough domestic capacity to go around, so people are pretty much forced to go to the export market,” says Benjamin Boucher, senior analyst with Wood Mackenzie.
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Over the past 10 years, the US government has tried a series of policies to reshore manufacturing, but they haven’t yet yielded a significant boost to domestic capacity, forcing businesses to look to China regardless of the tariffs or the alleged national security risk. That means the US needs crucial parts from China to dominate it in the AI race, while China needs advanced chips from American companies to stay in the race.
In March, Trump issued a new framework to speed up permitting of new power plants for data centers. Without addressing electrical equipment shortages, many are worried that the trillions of dollars of spending aimed at data centers won’t yield the decisive steps the US must take to win the AI race. “We’ve seen firsthand the value it can create if you are not hamstrung by electrical infrastructure lead times,” says Crusoe’s Likens. “They can make or break a project.”
Data centers have rapidly grown in size and now consume more electricity than their predecessors a decade ago. That demands bigger transformers, which safely pull electricity from the high-voltage grid to feed to tiny computer chips. Without the right transformers, there’s no way to make the data center work.
Before 2020, these high-power transformers typically arrived 24 to 30 months after an order was placed. Those timelines were “totally manageable in the old world” when data centers didn’t need such large transformers or at such short timelines, says Philippe Piron, chief executive officer of GE Vernova’s electrification division. But AI companies “want something typically in less than 18 months.”
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China dominates the supply of electrical equipment because it controls so many parts of the supply chain, from materials to processing to manufacturing, and the gulf between China and the US is set to widen. In its new five-year plan, the Asian giant revealed last month that it will double down on building out its grid with renewables, while the Trump administration has dismantled policies to deploy solar and wind power.
In March, the US opened trade investigations into China to justify tariffs; the country then retaliated by starting its own investigations against the US. Rash attempts to end Chinese imports of electrical equipment would mean further delays and harm the US in the AI race, says Joshua Busby, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. “If we’re too indiscriminate in our effort to diminish our reliance on China to zero, that could come at excessive cost to American companies,” he says.
global story, not much discussed here it seems -- eight people were murdered in Tumbler Ridge
Sam Altman with his published apology is presuming the community's blessing to spy on them all, and to snitch on the"bad guys" and "people in danger"
IRL Tumbler Ridge has complicated, still tender feelings about Sam Altman's expressions of regret from a calculated distance
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...logy-9.7176482
in 9 seconds
With A.I, you can up ten times as hard a hundred times as fast! All with absolutely zero oversight or accountability for anyone! Pay us money, and you too can have your entire database deleted along with all backups! We offer compe ive rates, so don't get left behind!https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-in...ude-goes-rogueThe founder of PocketOS has penned a social media post to warn others about the “systemic failures” of flagship AI and digital services providers. Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped. This tag team of digital trouble has wiped out months of consumer data essential to the firm’s, and its customers, businesses.
I feel sorry for the remaining employees.
"Jer"? Not so much. The buck stops with him. lol acting like the AI agent is a person.
"This is the agent on the record, in writing."
It's a computer program that is known to things up.
Then he whined about the fine print in Railway's do entation. That's on record, in writing. Putting all the backup eggs in one basket seems bad anyway.
AI is a marketing term
There's a very old joke in the field (dating back to the 90s at least)
When we hire people, it's machine learning. when we do the work, it's logistic regression. And when we raise money, it's AI.
data center construction isn't just a left-wing Glonzo anymore, independents and Republicans seem to be adopting it with gusto, too
https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-com...d-the-decision
The water issue is real, but wildly overstated and glonzo'd to the gills.
Jeffrey Epstein was a right-wing Glonzo until Trump was inaugurated in 2025
Now right-wingers pick up a shield to defend Donald Trump from Glonzo...
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