If by "public domain data" you mean stealing ungodly amounts of copyrighted works then sure
Lemme guess, Nick Shirley is your favorite journalist?
The amount invested into AI companies is no where near anything we've ever seen before. It's apples to oranges.
I'm amazed people still believe this narrative after all the clear evidence to the contrary
Curious; why is that an issue?
Batteries, having a mixed grid of renewables, and new advances in nuclear solves this
You've got to be kidding? "AI" data centers consume massive amounts of energy per square foot, have been caught using LNG generators for power, have polluted ground water, material usage, habitat destruction, etc How…
Here you go: Harvard University Law Press: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-profits-from-the-pub... Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec... CNBC:…
Not sure how to answer this. It's pretty well documented that datacenters (esp the AI variety) are offloading grid expenses to customers as higher baseline costs. The issue is that these DCs are not paying for the cost…
Local labor is often not used to build them. Most of these companies have crews they bring in during build out. Plus the actual setup of the facility is highly skilled: everyone is imported. The only local jobs we're…
You really think an individual employee trying to help a customer when they likely have little impact on org wide issues like how customer support is run is tarpitting? Seems a bit uncharitable
You can't be serious? I hope I'm just missing the joke To have an equivalent capacity of DCs in space would require such astronomical costs there is 0 chance it would be profitable esp considering how fast GPUs…
So by your logic if a massive company came and said they want to setup an oil refinery or coal power plant you'd say they should say yes just because they could get tax revenue? You always have to way the pros and cons…
Minimal impact as defined by whom? I'm sure they impact those that live around them plenty as well as the price on electricity for those on the same grid. They provide mostly temporary jobs (and majority imported to…
You'd be forever my hero if you solve the rate limiting thing! One time I couldn't fix a production issue because I opened too many tabs. Thanks Brandon!
Are you talking backup generator vs solar for a home? If so, solar continually supplies power without paying for an input vs a backup generator which is only meant to run infrequently and is costly to run and requires…
Counter point; good enough is often... good enough Go is the best example of this; it's boring but incredible stable and consistent
For your first question: - The workers platform is quite pleasant to work with compared to competitors. - Globally deploying edge workers which have access to their many services (D1, R2, DO, etc) - Having the ability…
Vercel hired the Svelte team so I'm not too sure there's much of a difference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189144
The dashboard UX has improved a lot lately but one thing that drives me absolutely nuts is that I get rate limited all the time using it. For example, I had to recently change an env var we had on a handful of apps and…
Bro energy is not water
Know of any new companies that are 100% AI written that have paying customers?
This is why we have a federal government. Too bad it's been gutted by decades of neoliberalism and corporate lobbying
Please, tell how much energy an equal sized vineyard uses compared to a data center?
Except now you're making http calls to remote servers that could be compromised.
If by "public domain data" you mean stealing ungodly amounts of copyrighted works then sure
Lemme guess, Nick Shirley is your favorite journalist?
The amount invested into AI companies is no where near anything we've ever seen before. It's apples to oranges.
I'm amazed people still believe this narrative after all the clear evidence to the contrary
Curious; why is that an issue?
Batteries, having a mixed grid of renewables, and new advances in nuclear solves this
You've got to be kidding? "AI" data centers consume massive amounts of energy per square foot, have been caught using LNG generators for power, have polluted ground water, material usage, habitat destruction, etc How…
Here you go: Harvard University Law Press: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-profits-from-the-pub... Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec... CNBC:…
Not sure how to answer this. It's pretty well documented that datacenters (esp the AI variety) are offloading grid expenses to customers as higher baseline costs. The issue is that these DCs are not paying for the cost…
Local labor is often not used to build them. Most of these companies have crews they bring in during build out. Plus the actual setup of the facility is highly skilled: everyone is imported. The only local jobs we're…
You really think an individual employee trying to help a customer when they likely have little impact on org wide issues like how customer support is run is tarpitting? Seems a bit uncharitable
You can't be serious? I hope I'm just missing the joke To have an equivalent capacity of DCs in space would require such astronomical costs there is 0 chance it would be profitable esp considering how fast GPUs…
So by your logic if a massive company came and said they want to setup an oil refinery or coal power plant you'd say they should say yes just because they could get tax revenue? You always have to way the pros and cons…
Minimal impact as defined by whom? I'm sure they impact those that live around them plenty as well as the price on electricity for those on the same grid. They provide mostly temporary jobs (and majority imported to…
You'd be forever my hero if you solve the rate limiting thing! One time I couldn't fix a production issue because I opened too many tabs. Thanks Brandon!
Are you talking backup generator vs solar for a home? If so, solar continually supplies power without paying for an input vs a backup generator which is only meant to run infrequently and is costly to run and requires…
Counter point; good enough is often... good enough Go is the best example of this; it's boring but incredible stable and consistent
For your first question: - The workers platform is quite pleasant to work with compared to competitors. - Globally deploying edge workers which have access to their many services (D1, R2, DO, etc) - Having the ability…
Vercel hired the Svelte team so I'm not too sure there's much of a difference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189144
The dashboard UX has improved a lot lately but one thing that drives me absolutely nuts is that I get rate limited all the time using it. For example, I had to recently change an env var we had on a handful of apps and…
Bro energy is not water
Know of any new companies that are 100% AI written that have paying customers?
This is why we have a federal government. Too bad it's been gutted by decades of neoliberalism and corporate lobbying
Please, tell how much energy an equal sized vineyard uses compared to a data center?
Except now you're making http calls to remote servers that could be compromised.