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for solar, a 5km diameter solar farm might hold 10m square meters of panels. at 250w each, 2.5gw solar farm. 4 times a full moon, is 1/100000th the rated capacity (noon at equator) of panels, and so 25kw of power. At 10c/kwh electricity revenue potential, such a farm (exists only in China) could break even offering to rent night light at $2.50/hour.

Batteries charged by solar can deliver profitable electricity at night for far less than 10c/kwh.

If you just want more light somewhere, it would be far cheaper to do from ground systems.

Apple specifically is provably charging countries without tariffs: https://iphone-worldwide.com/

Have the world subsidize US sales, just because they're used to paying a little more. Not surprised that other goods would use same strategy.

It's vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide," he added.

"vital that America wins" is main reason China will win. US is only interested in Skynet/surveillance system for Israel first control over population as the customers for AI. Musk needs MechaHitler to destroy Tesla sales, and control a robot army for fascist extremist political power.

The entire vision of "America must win" is the usual militarist throwing money at oligarchs philosophy. OpenAI confidently declaring US government should guarantee its impossible loans to help it. "winning developers worldwide" = CUDA.. I don't hear Jensen saying he should share CUDA with other US firms: AMD, qualcom, apple, intel.

Oligarchs are just saying they should get all the money or China(Russia, Iran...) will win is a US governance mantra that ensures their collapse. A country on the verge of collapse is incapable of reaching Skynet. There will be a bubble in everything else, if all US wealth is thrown at Skynet oligarchy. Already, skynet ambitions is forcing high ram prices for everyone else. High electricity prices in US. Mass layoffs.

China is extremely far ahead in robotics and self driving. Their open LLM models are more useful with more global downloads than US. They are certain to win because they have energy capacity, and a manufacturing sector that is the only consumer of useful AI/robotics. They need tech advancement for survival instead of oligarchist plunder of what is still treated as unlimited money, that still mostly gets funneled through TSMC.

China has much more research/education levels. It already has all the NVIDIA gpus it wants through black market at prices equal to US, and it packages about half of NVIDIA gpus.

Where AI can help a human/business user help humanity boost production/productivity, Chinese research efforts will help. Skynet will just destroy and extort humanity for those who control AI to control humanity. It is naturally less trustworthy to rely on the openly evil, than on open models.

SAltman and the circular investment crew are pivoting to a pump and dump scheme on server hardware

Or just resell their contracted RAM that they can't pay for, for even more.

why does “AI” need so much CPU RAM

It doesn't really, though CPU inference is possible/slow at 256+gb. The problem is that they are making HBM (AI) ram instead of ddr4/5.

could be a bios setting that allows your ram to work at lower speed.

Indeed awful. AFAIU, it is stockpiling HBM memory ahead of next generation "GPUs", rather than existing product volume. I'm especially disgusted that prices in non-tariff countries are higher than in US. If this were to last, gddr5/6 computer ram would start to make sense. NVIDIA has been behind starving memory supplies for competing platforms (usually AMD) in the past.

This pricing is both huge inflation, but also huge drop in sales, because we have to wait for it to get sensible.

Firstly, foreign students are capped at 8%

Is that a new cap? Just for graduate schools? It's been a while since my annecdote or Uni experience.

I know people who were qualified for graduate school, but did not get in. Mainly because foreign students pay better. There would actually be a more diverse/enjoyable university experience if more Canadians (say at least half of students) were admitted.

Whole discussion is about " I can only afford 1/3 price generic mustard, but SNAP recipients are spoiled"

SNAP funds can also be used to buy cheap mustard to stetch limited SNAP budget.

Putin made significant reforms from CIA stooge, and therefore loved "democratic leader" Yeltsin's corruption was reformed. Western propaganda still portrays the oligarchy Yeltsin helped create (to enrichment of western financing) as in control of Russia. Reality to Russians, is that CIA puppetted nazi Ukraine instigated this war for diminishment of Russia goals, and defense of Russia is needed, and Putin has done a competent job in growing a war economy with good pay for everyone who wants a job in Russia. Western propaganda carries no weight because west hates an independent/cohesive Russia.

both your insurance payments and healthcare costs/wages count as GDP.