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The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver (pivot-to-ai.com)
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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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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, im saying that for laymen the term edge is vague, and that it is explained by the context of the piece. I'm complaining about the industries weird jargon, and how easily it slips into everyday usage.

And then you hear people say stuff like: "Just put your logs into splork so you can look at the seim (which people pronounce as seam)".