US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

Starving an AI from power? Is that a good idea? Did we learn nothing from The Matrix?

When I go camping, I leave my cell phone in the car, powered off. There's no point in carrying it as there won't be any signal in the back-country.

You probably need something like a phased array to give some directionality sensing to the receiving antenna?

No need for that. All you have to do is fly in a pattern once you find a signal, keeping an eye on the signal strength. For example, if you get a hit while flying north, you turn around and fly south half a km to the west. Your signal is going to be weaker or stringer. If it's weaker, the transmitter is further east, and if it's stronger then the transmitter is further west. It's basically the children's game Hot and Cold, but with cellular technology. Granted, a directional antenna will make searching a lot simpler, but a simple yagi or loop antenna would suffice for that. No need to go to all the trouble and expense of a phased array.

I miss Star Raiders and Ball Blaster.

Does that include heat bulbs? Lots of small animals are kept warm through incandescent heat bulbs. When my dad was alive, we used them all the time on the farm.

> If they said "I successfully pirated all the movies that Universal Pictures released in 2018," for example, it might be different from saying "I think pirates are cool." Flag as Inappropriate Saying you did something on Slashdot is not proof that you actually did that thing. You are not under oath or compelled to speak the truth here. I am a lawyer in real life (and in the odd commercial), so I know what I'm talking about.

BTW, I am not a lawyer, and the only commercial I made was a promo for a play, and if you want some beachfront property in the Florida Everglades, I'm open to getting sent some gift cards for it.

Of course we know who he is. He's the vacuum cleaner guy, right?

... which results in a higher exhaust velocity for a given mass of propellant.

By all means, do. (Nice sig, by the way.)

That license to license, presumably, was meant to be exclusive. Novell could have been in violation even though they owned the code.

I suggest you go through CGP Grey's Humans Need Not Apply. We will need free healthcare and free handouts because people will become not just unemployed, but unemployable.

Exactly! The reason most Americans can't spell properly traces back to the spelling mistakes in Noah Webster's dictionary.

It's singular. Consider:

"Data are the android on the Enterprise" vs.
"Data is the android on the Enterprise".

Wouldn't you be petrified if someone wanted to pour hot grits on YOUR naked body?

Why do they teach you lies in America? Just like Americans didn't invent the light bulb nor the airplane:

Americans didn't invent the printing press;
Americans didn't invent newspaper;
Americans didn't invent the telegraph;
Americans didn't invent the telephone;
Americans didn't invent radio;
Americans didn't invent magnetic tape;
Americans didn't invent television;
Americans didn't invent packet switching, the basis for the internet;
Americans didn't invent the world wide web.

What media did you Americans actually invent?

Restaurant owners say ordering is faster from customers who slap down plastic instead of dollars...

I am Canadian. When I slap down money, it IS plastic.