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Data-driven theoretical technologist exploring digital infrastructure and emerging technologies.🤯 Chief Technoking at Rath Consulting.

USA
Joined February 2007
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Data centers are leveling up Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
Private spending on data centers has eclipsed public spending on transportation Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
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AI's energy crisis may have a biological solution. The Biological Computing Company is building chips from living human neurons. It says they reach peak model performance 3x faster than silicon. Nat Rubio-Licht went inside their SF lab. Read the story: thedeepview.com/articles/ai-…
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SpaceX
Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMzlv…
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Put aside the predictions, his skills as an *explainer* of tech were just out of this world — here in front of what was clearly an audience that had minimal experience with PCs at all.
Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983:
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$12 billion Project West in Norwalk, Iowa (just south of Des Moines). The Norwalk City Council voted to acquire 282 acres within a larger area of land being annexed for what officials are calling a major data center project. Microsoft already has a number of data center campuses nearby, so I think this one is not one of the hyperscalers, but perhaps an AI factory. Additional hints given in the news story: “privately funded” and “not asking for any incentives.” weareiowa.com/article/news/l…
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BREAKING: Elon Musk’s companies, SpaceX and xAI, are officially merging. A newly updated business filing in Nevada list the business name as K2 MERGER SUB 2. K2 means Kardashev type 2 civilization 😎 Tesla will now own $2B of this merged company.
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