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Microsoft announced they'll be building $80 billion worth of A.I. focused data centers worldwide in fiscal 2025, with over half of that spent in the US. How could this impact employment in your area? (they tend to employ around 15 people per shift) Housing needs and prices? Infrastructure needs for water and electricity supply? (WSJ)
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With the massive new demands for electricity, should we expect a surge in NUCLEAR facilities? How would you react to one built near your neighborhood? One nuclear reactor produces the equivalent of 800 wind turbines, or 8.5 million solar panels, is carbon-free. Already 48% of the clean energy in the U.S. comes from nuclear. But nuclear has a terrible safety perception after a few massive meltdowns globally. The death rate per unit of electricity production is 3.5X greater than solar, the safest.....but....351X safer than coal, 263X safer than oil and 40X safer than natural gas. What happens to the nuclear waste? If you gathered all the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. in the last 60 years, it would occupy 10 yards of a football field.... (Multiple sources, Scott Galloway)
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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, investors have added a staggering $8.2 trillion to the market valuations of tech’s Big 6 firms: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The 2024 US federal budget was $6.8 trillion.....
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90% of internet users (excluding China) are active on Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube) platforms which have access to more unique human language data (i.e. raw training data) than Google Search, Reddit, Wikipedia, and X …combined.
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Researchers have estimated that a single ChatGPT query requires almost 10 times as much electricity to process as a traditional Google search. By 2034 annual global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 terawatt-hours—about as much as is used by all of India—compared to about 500 today. Data centers need to be cooled and can consume more than a billion liters of water a day — much of it drinking quality, enough to supply 3.3 million people for a day. Metals like steel, silicon, quartz, copper and germanium are required to manufacture chips, circuits, and processors. (Bloomberg)
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About 800 million people across the world lack access to electricity, down from over 1.5 billion in 1998....progress!
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Where did all the money go???....they ask.....well..... A historic amount of cash is on the sidelines. Since 2003, private equity’s dry powder, i.e., the committed capital not yet allocated, increased 8x to $4 trillion. Corporate cash holdings total $4.1 trillion....that's roughly 15% of the entire US economy.... can we expect more mergers and acquisitions as the massive swath of new regulations are repealed?
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When thinking about your home design, it might be interesting to consider how colors are perceived:
Blue: Trust, stability, calmness
Red: Urgency, excitement, attention-grabbing
Green: Nature, freshness, sustainability
Yellow: Warmth, happiness, optimism
Orange: Energy, enthusiasm, value
Black: Sophistication, power, luxury
"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."
– Charlie Chaplin
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