19: Data centers - Don't we have enough already?

Data centers are sprouting up every where. Do we really need more of them?

In this episode, Jim and Wolf talk about what data centers are, how prevalent they are and what it takes to build them.

We talk about the sizes and energy uses and all sorts of other things related to data centers.

It was a fun episode to research and very eye-opening.

Links:

https://statista.com

https://cloudscene.com/region/datacenters-in-north-america

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/inference-is-splitting-in-two-nvidias-usd20b-groq-bet-explains-its-next-act

https://energyattheedge.substack.com/p/how-utilities-make-money-capital

Wolf’s dotfiles: https://github.com/wolf/dotfiles

Direct link to Wolf's Alabaster theme for Helix (now both light and dark): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wolf/alabaster-for-helix/main/helix/dot-config/helix/themes/wolf-alabaster-light.toml

The repo for the dotx tool: https://github.com/wolf/dotx

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Dawn by nuer self, from the album Digital Sky