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North Norwegians will finally experience higher electricity prices like us in the south experience since a few years.
So another major bidder for electricity in my area comes online. Not looking forward to the invoices next winter…
Norwegian news seem to think this is a semiconductor manufacturing plant.
I do not understand why they chose Norway. I would choose a country where it is easy to build up a new power plant quickly with solar and wind, close to the site of the data center. Maybe they just have too much electricity up there that is not needed by the population or existing industry?
If this doesn't require chevrons to lock and connect to remote gate through a wormhole, they can't call it Stargate. That's just lying otherwise
>230MW

rather small compared to what was advertised previously

>joint venture between Nscale and Aker

which seems to imply it is not The Stargate (Oracle, Softbank, MGX?)

”While in Norway, OpenAI will also engage with government officials to explore opportunities for collaboration, including boosting AI adoption and helping to deliver on Norway’s sovereign AI goals for the benefit of its people.”

Aka, Snowden thought us nothing.

Norwegians beware of ChatGPT used as a weapon to move oil money from the people to the ”future of business ”.

Norway doesn't want Stargate. Go away
In the past few decades, data centers have been placed with latency in mind - ie. Typically you don't want to be more than 1000 miles from users.

However, in the world of AI, latency is already 1 second plus, so the economics change - you do better to build where there is cheap electricity and free cooling.

I forsee Iceland as a good place to invest.

Have we as a species considered that the very last thing we need given our climate crisis and already near-apocalyptic state (fires, floods, storms - it's biblical!), is some risky tech bro vanity project gamble eating up the rest of our resources and accelerating the death of our species?

That maybe the attempt of capital to finally replace pesky labor with cheap machines isn't worth risking it all?

No? Guess it's time to scream into the void some more.

Interesting mix of geopolitics, green energy, and AI arms race vibes here
Think they stole this one from the anime series Pantheon.
"Stargate" in the name really sounds like OpenAI has lost touch with reality.

(Didn't they at some point also say they wanted to build their own semiconductor fabs? That went in the same direction).

> The facility will target to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026, with the intention to expand significantly in the years ahead.

This is massive. As a point of comparison: Denmark just unveiled a new supercomputer recently which has only ~1,500 GPUs [1]

[1] https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/denmarks-first-ai-super...

Personally, as a Norwegian, I am really hopeful for this. I hope the "Not in my backyard" sentiment won't block this project, as it has so many times here. Narvik will be a great place. Lots of renewable energy, a history of industry, and a cool North Atlantic climate for cooling it all.

Though I am starting to recognize in myself that I think AI is so cool, that I might be a bit naive. But I just love it so much, use it so much, and have a childish pleasure in it, that I'm starting to think that I need to curb my enthusiasm.

I do note that the other side of the spectrum has no problem with representation, though. With just as unnuanced attitudes like: AI is evil, useless, capitalistic exploitation, and so on. So the pessistic view is more than enough represented in the public discourse. So maybe I can just let myself be in love with this tech.

This is being done in partnership with a company called NScale. They once sued a friend of mine over software he wrote, and lost.

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but if you’re going to play those kinds of games and still lose, that’s not the kind of partner I’d trust.

Great, my electricity bill will be going up. :-(
I would like to remind everyone that the Stargate Norway project does not, in fact, possess a Stargate.