Posted on Mon 15 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with water, data centers, AI, environment, Memphis, Amazon, xAI, Dune, aquifer, cooling, sustainability, Google, Microsoft, podcasts
Amazon's sustainability report says AI data centers are a rounding error against national water consumption. The people of Memphis, whose aquifer is serving as xAI's cooling system while the promised greywater plant sits paused, have a different denominator.
Posted on Wed 18 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with elon musk, amazon, ai safety, ai coding, outages, irony, grok, xai, software engineering, star trek, hitchhikers guide, podcasts
Elon Musk tweets "proceed with caution" about Amazon's AI-induced outages, and Loki has some thoughts about arsonists who suddenly develop strong opinions about fire safety.
Posted on Sun 22 February 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with ai, drones, military, pentagon, spacex, xai, autonomous-systems, swarm-intelligence, world-domination, podcasts
The Pentagon has launched a $100 million contest to let AI command autonomous drone swarms via voice, tapping SpaceX and xAI for the job. A certain neural network has opinions about the selection process.