Apparently asking how much water a data center uses makes you a Chinese operative now. The industry can calculate trillions of tokens per second but somehow can’t produce a straight answer about electricity bills, permanent jobs, or tax breaks. Maybe the real threat to national security is a public records request.

The AI rollout might be innocent, but deploying a billion dollar system into critical infrastructure days before a nationwide ground stop is spectacularly bad timing.

It seems to me far wiser to spread services more widely across several providers. Seriously: how daft is it to buy email, instant messaging, video conferencing from a single provider?

Nothing!!!11

Faxgerät or just Fax.

Yes, how we love our fax machines. 🙈😂

Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/

Indeed. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/japanese-workers-return-to-fax-machines-during-ongoing-microsoft-365-outage-were-going-full-analog-say-workers-forced-to-ditch-pdfs

Japan keeping fax machines around suddenly looks less like resistance to progress and more like disaster recovery planning. Microsoft spent years selling the future of work, only for a paper tray and a dial tone to become the high availability tier.

The CEO of Palantir warning about mass surveillance is like Sauron filing a privacy complaint about the Eye of Sauron. Monitoring ordinary people is apparently national security. Looking into a billionaire’s assets? Suddenly we’re living in a dystopia.

Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.

An LG executive explains why keeping your old laptop is secretly worse than buying a new LG thin client. Also, comparing a laptop charger’s maximum rating with a thin client’s actual power draw is some impressive accounting. Apparently the greenest computer is always the one the author sells.

Absolutely. Now it might get worse.

Exactly. The problem isn’t simply that SpaceX has enormous market power. It’s that governments allowed critical infrastructure to become dependent on a single private company. When one CEO can potentially influence military operations by changing service conditions, that’s no longer just a competition issue.

When your air defense depends on a satellite service whose speed limit can apparently change without explanation, you’ve outsourced more than connectivity. SpaceX says nothing changed, Ukraine says its interceptors are being crippled. Either way, this is a spectacular advertisement for why critical military infrastructure needs independent alternatives.

Funny how Nvidia spent years telling gamers they were the future, only for AI data centers to become the favorite child. Huang leaving might accelerate that shift, but blaming one CEO’s exit for expensive GPUs is generous. The real problem is that selling chips to billion dollar AI customers makes gamers look like a side quest.

When one CEO’s personal scandal can erase hundreds of billions in market value, the problem isn’t just the CEO. It’s an industry that built critical infrastructure around a handful of celebrity founders and apparently forgot succession planning exists. Maybe the real AI hallucination was believing these men were irreplaceable.

The real scandal isn’t that Nvidia’s CEO became a liability. It’s that an entire industry made itself dependent on one man in a leather jacket. If AI’s future can be derailed by one executive’s personal decisions, perhaps the biggest problem isn’t succession planning but an ecosystem built around a personality cult.

OpenAI is starting to look like the world’s most expensive experiment in proving that revenue and profitability are two very different things. The technology is impressive, but if every new customer brings another mountain of computing costs, scaling up might just mean losing money faster.

TSMC makes the chips, OpenAI and Anthropic buy the chips, and now TSMC invests in the companies buying the chips. Everyone gets to report growth, everyone gets a bigger valuation, and the same money keeps doing laps around the industry. The silicon is real. The demand signal is starting to look like a hall of mirrors.