My Content Stream on AI

This is my running stream of thought on AI.

There are many things up in the air as AI is concerned. The most troubling is data center land grabs. There are many palces where data centers have been proposed, and the local citizenry is opposed. This has sparked debate, because many of the local politicians have worked to get the data centers pushed through -- without the consent of their constituents.

Five months after Grosser turned them down, local officials said at a public meeting that Mason County was being scouted as a location for a new data center development.

Grosser experienced firsthand what has become a common but controversial aspect of the multibillion-dollar data center boom, fueled by artificial intelligence services. Major tech companies launching the huge projects across the country are asking land sellers and public officials to sign NDAs to limit discussions about details of the projects in exchange for morsels of information and the potential of economic lifelines for their communities. It often leaves neighbors searching for answers about the futures of their communities.

The construction of such hyperscale data centers — giant facilities that house servers and computing resources — is booming nationwide. President Donald Trump’s AI action plan and related executive orders have recently facilitated their speedy approval, in part by loosening environmental regulations from clean air and water laws. Hundreds of projects were announced last year, touted by developers and many local officials as economic boosts to local economies.

People are obviously being paid off. When NDAs are involved, there is money changing hands, and the people slinging the money don't want people finding out who they are.

There's an even stranger side to this though.

Nvidia is about to enter the PC market. Why? Because they say that AI is going to be moving more towards edge devices. The AI will be built-in to the devices we use, not hosted elsewhere.

TAIPEI, June 1 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab on Monday unveiled a new chip ​that puts artificial intelligence capabilities directly into laptops and desktop computers, pitting it against the likes of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab, Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab and Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab.

The chip, developed with Taiwan's MediaTek (2454.TW), opens new tab, will debut this fall in laptops and compact desktops from Dell (DELL.N), opens new tab, HP (HPQ.N), opens new tab, Lenovo (0992.HK), opens new tab, ASUS (2357.TW), opens new tab, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.

Industry experts said the processor would overhaul engagement with AI as it is designed to ​run autonomous AI agents locally rather than relying solely on cloud computing.

This begs the question -- "What are all the data centers for -- if most AI will be moving to edge devices?"

Something's not right here.

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