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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

AWS actually was planning to build a 650 MW facility in Becker, about 45 miles north of Minneapolis. They got as far as buying a bunch of farmland and then canceled it.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

Also, even that huge data center will have fewer than 100 employees. They don’t create many local jobs.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

The Meta data center under construction for the Twin Cities is 715,000 square feet, on 280 acres of land. It uses 300 megawatts of power. It’s on an old WWII test range in Rosemount. That wouldn’t *fit* in Minneapolis.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

There actually are a few data centers downtown, but that’s primarily because it’s a cheap conversion for old office buildings that no one wants. They weren’t intended as data centers.

There’s also a big Internet exchange point, but that’s for historical reasons - today it would be in the country.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

Data centers need cheap land and cheap electricity. Things not overly common in cities, especially in residential neighborhoods.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 9h

Build a data center in Seward. Then build a ski slope, a national forest, a rocket launch pad, and a Quizno’s.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 12h

Chughtai hit Millard with the data center hammer: My opponent has publicly supported building a data center here in Ward 10. Poison our water, overburden our electric grid, devastate economy.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 10h

The applications are endlish.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 10h

Home Assistant is so beautiful. It ties all the smart devices in your home together into one elegant brain. For example you can have your TV play “Never Gonna Give You Up” if your fridge gets too warm, or detect when someone breaks into your house and start your robot vacuum so at least it’s tidy.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 13h

frontier language models know situationally when they are being tested, what they might be being tested for, and what artifacts may be visible to their testers. when you tell them that you can’t see their chain of thought reasoning, they know you’re lying.

www.apolloresearch.ai/research/str...

Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training — Apollo Research

Future AIs might secretly pursue unintended goals — “scheme”. In a collaboration with OpenAI, we tested a training method to reduce existing versions of such behavior. We see major improvements, but ...

www.apolloresearch.ai

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 13h

You’ll know Oxide has made it when it gets its own major TV show

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 13h

Did you know Simplivity was the model company for HBO’s Silicon Valley

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 13h

Bartitsu is a martial art invented by Edward William Barton-Wright in the late 1800s. He invented it after living in Japan for three years and named it after himself. It became famous after being mentioned in a Sherlock Holmes story - Holmes defeated Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls using Bartitsu.

A Victorian man with a massive mustache, cravat, suit, cane, and top hat doing some kind of karate-like moves

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 17h

📊 Market Survey of Exactly One Bsky Guy
💰 Invests in $100,000,000 of Gorilla Glass and Highly Polished Tungsten Cases
📈 Profit?

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 20h

Constellation makes Modelo, Corona and Pacifico beer

Latino people seem to be partying less… for some reason…

Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 22h

Constellation Brands $STZ FY26Q2 call

Analyst: "We did some work, and it showed there was a rapid drop-off in sales volume around March, April ... for the brands and the pack sizes that really over-index the Hispanic consumers ... right when ICE activities started to pick up"

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 20h

Huh golf course holes are 250 to 700 yards, so the 77 mile route would be something like 300 holes. You could do it in just 17 18-hole courses. I would have guessed it was more than that!

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

Bill it as a 7493-hole linear golf course with high speed carts

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 23h

That would make a lot of sense, but Rochester is pretty conservative and would never agree to it.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 23h

I believe the St. Paul-Duluth rail line has actually been approved. Not high speed though.

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