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O'Leary downsizes the Utah data-center plan by removing about 19,430 acres from a 40,000-acre footprint, leaving roughly 20,570 acres amid regulatory and local pressure.
HN thread: a data-center contractor finds a node with a CC- style serial prefix on legacy networking gear, reports unusual 0.4 ms RTTs and an unregistered 46.28.x.x block, and asks if this prefix is known or what it implies.
General Compute is betting on SambaNova’s inference-focused chips to scale AI services, highlighting a $15M seed at a $60M post-money, $300M of SN50 chips on order, and 600–700 tokens/sec inference versus ~250 for GPUs, plus air-cooled deployment for data centers.
NVIDIA Vera's Olympus-core ARM data-center CPU promises strong performance with 88 cores, high memory bandwidth, and next-gen interfaces, but the benchmarks are early, run on pre-production hardware with a limited workload set and ongoing power-tuning.
A blog argues Jira automation is Turing-complete by mapping a two-counter Minsky machine onto Jira constructs, with concrete addition and Fibonacci demonstrations and notes on Cloud quotas and Data Center parity.
xAI plans to spend $2.8B on natural gas turbines over 3 years per SpaceX's IPO filing, while a lawsuit over its data-center generators looms.
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