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The famous NSA Utah Data Center was publicly estimated from blueprints at roughly 3 to 12 exabytes back in 2013. The real number is classified and it may have grown, but even 12 exabytes would only hold a fraction of one month of global internet traffic. At 522 exabytes per month, 12 exabytes is about 2.3 percent of one month, or less than a day’s worth of global traffic. At Sandvine’s higher 33 exabytes per day estimate, 12 exabytes is only about 9 hours of traffic. That is why I think the more realistic model is not ‘store every word, call, text, and packet forever.’ It is broad metadata collection, traffic filtering, selectors, targeting rules, keyword or intelligence triggers, and then storing selected content where it meets a requirement. Metadata is compact and extremely revealing. Universal raw-content storage is a much bigger claim, and I would need evidence for that.

@Erickschultz11 @DerrickEvans4WV Snowden was over 10 years ago, that is ancient history in the IT world

I’m not saying they are building all these data centers to roll out the social credit scores. I’m just saying I don’t think we need all of these data centers to run ChatGPT, Grok, Claude etc. But if you did want social credit scores, you would need a lot of data centers🤔

@nighttimemedia @mysteriouskat 🤣 one of the main benefits of the little white lie.

@mysteriouskat @Erickschultz11 So if you reassure your wife that she doesn't look fat in that dress, then you can go to jail? That's gonna make marriage interesting. 😄

We should make it illegal for people to lie.

I mean operational trust, not consumer trust. Companies have to know AI can be reliable, auditable, secure, legally safe, and integrated into real workflows before replacing whole office functions. Adoption will happen fast in low-risk areas, but full replacement is a different threshold.

@Erickschultz11 People use Waymos without any problem. The idea that there will be trust issues is a myth. Companies only care about performance. Once AI is better and cheaper than humans, they will adopt it.

When I say that AI will empty office buildings by 2030, some people say we won't have enough compute. We won't need much compute. The jobs done in a fifty-story office building will be replaced by AI running on a single processor. The mental work a human does in a day will take only a few seconds for AI. A detailed image, a complex spreadsheet, emails to hundreds of customers - all done in seconds. In 24 hours, AI running on a single processor will do the work of 10,000 office workers. Entire companies shrunk to the size of a computer chip.

@qbean_jackjia @haider1 Yes. But the interface model matters to developers. Some are better than others. But in time that difference may matter as they each try to become more competitive. I am in favor of allowing this to happen

@Erickschultz11 @haider1 You can ask the same question to grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Deepseek, Qwen and they all can give you a similar answer. Do we really need so many of them, are all of them not able to share anything? Should we put more investment on how to use the models?

Jensen Huang says AI will need 1,000x the computing energy we have today, and that estimate might still be too low Thats's because AI will not work like today’s retrieval-based systems "computers will become generative, context-aware, and always running continuously"

@RRMacKay1963 @DerrickEvans4WV Unless i use cash.

@Erickschultz11 @DerrickEvans4WV Lets get that out of the way: every technology has an NSA back door not CIA. Your trip to walmart this morning is already attached to your profile record in the bluffdale data center and compared to every other walmart trip in the last 4 years.

@RRMacKay1963 @DerrickEvans4WV What u are suggesting is mega mega mega data. Snowden said otherwise. And i see no public info suggesting they collect other than meta data. Except in special cases. In the old days they used tapes. Today they use disks. But still its crazy to store all data.

@Erickschultz11 @DerrickEvans4WV LOL, funny.

@RRMacKay1963 @DerrickEvans4WV I am familiar with their operations. But i heard only meta data is stored.

@Erickschultz11 @DerrickEvans4WV The NSA has fiber terminals at every major data cable interface, they intercept ALL traffic, encrypted or not and store it.

They don't need it to track us. But do need it to implement other more prevalent controls based on our interactions with AI. Privacy should change that unless the cia has a back door. But still there other things AI could do to monitor and control us. Especially if they have digital id requirements.

@DerrickEvans4WV As an IT pro your I can tell you that everything you do, say or touch is currently tracked. The places where there is less tracking is rural locations.

@DerrickEvans4WV @brigrey1005 Their theory is centralized intelligence to replace jobs

@Govindtwtt I buy mine at the grocery store. Duh. People just need to be frugal again. Make America Frugal Again. ! MAFA. MAFA =>>> MAGA.

Pizza chains are collapsing. Not because people hate pizza. But because the middle class can’t afford it anymore. The pie is now a symbol of a broken system where even junk food is priced like steak.

There are tradeoffs. Max representation vs selective representation. True democracies fail because of mass exploitation. However selective representation means potential corruption. The American constitutional structure itself can be interpreted as an attempt at that balance. It combines democratic legitimacy with institutional restraints, staggered elections, constitutional limits, judicial review, federalism, and separated powers to slow down both mob impulses and elite consolidation.

Repeal the 19th amendment. The OG Libertarian position. Maybe Redheaded Libertarianism is a new movement?

@qbean_jackjia @haider1 Competition is important . That creates the best model. Its not a scam. But we could do better

@haider1 There are so many LLM models doing very similar things nowadays! So redundant and wasteful of energy and hardwares! I think LLM models are the biggest waste and scam in computing history.

Pure communism ends up being an authoritarian government run by mindless bureaucrats. Power like that corrupts people. Marx lacked the intelligence to consider that problem. To maintain control they end up killing or jailing people who don't agree with their policy decisions. China will end up like that if the people don't agree with their policy decisions. Already we see cracks in their control. People should appreciate the constitutional republic we have even if its not as efficient. I think there are trade offs between authoritarian governments and democratic ones that people don't understand.

@Erickschultz11 @BattlementLK Countries can't be communist

"Comrades, Today, we are commemorating Marx to pay our respects to the greatest thinker in human history, and to proclaim our firm belief in the scientific truth of Marxism." - President Xi

@davidpattersonx Right now there is still hesitancy. I have seen that. So maybe in a year or two as it rolls out successfully i agree. It still requires direction and supervision by humans. Those jobs will take longer to replace.

I think the AI race can take many different paths. Like we don't need super smart AI for most jobs. So why are we focusing on that. Super Smart AI is most useful in research areas only. And is potentially risky. Its not something we need running around. I also think limited intelligence could be easier to distribute without massive data centers. Basically a smaller and less power hungry distribution system. Humans are very efficient power and size wise.

“Google will win the AI race in the West, China on Earth and SpaceX in space.” — Elon Musk

First. They can't think like that now. They don't have the required architecture. Second most jobs don't require that. Third Robots are needed for many labor intense jobs. Fourth we would be smarter to create a limited AI to replace human labor. We don't really want them to get too smart. So intelligence should be limited.

@iluminatibot Sounds like they are following the wef playbook. You will own nothing and eat bugs. They are working on both. However if ai takes jobs without replacement wages its going to make a mess out of those plans when the market collapses.

RFK Jr: "Your kids are never going to buy a home." "There's three big companies: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard. They basically just own everything." "And now what they've decided is they want to own every single family home in our country."

TBH. I blame both parties for the economic problems. We have spent too much money on shit we didn't need to do for our ungrateful nato friends. Plus both parties have allowed stagnation and job loss to China and Vietnam. Making it harder for our citizens to earn better wages. Trump is the first one trying to reverse years of incompetence.

Here are the last years these cities ELECTED a Republican Mayor: Washington, D.C. - NEVER Chicago -1927 Portland -1952 Minneapolis -1957 Seattle -1964 New York -1994 YET... Liberals want to blame Trump for all of the problems in these cities?

@middle_class_us Too bad that millions of immigrants moved here ..making their departure a blip.

An estimated 180,000 American citizens moved abroad in 2025. Researchers describe it as the largest American emigration shift in decades. People are not just venting on social media anymore. They are leaving.

@Atomsmade I have known any Christian to say or do that. What planet do you live on. Or are you a communist influencer.

This is exactly how christainity keeps people poor as fuck. They proudly flex their suffering like it's holy, instead of demanding better lives. "Look at us! We have nothing... but we have Jesus!" This toxic mindset glorifies poverty and tells people to pray harder instead of building, fixing, and progressing. That's why highly religious countries stay backward and broke.