Meta Quit the Clean-Energy Club. The Grid Explains Why.
Meta has walked away from RE100, a renewable-energy pledge it held for over a decade, and is backing 7.5 gigawatts of new gas plants to feed its AI. BloombergNEF now sees data centres taking a fifth of US power by 2035, and even National Grid concedes renewables cannot carry the load alone.
Read full story →The Diagnosis Is In: The AI Payoff Problem Is a Management Problem
MIT, Gallup and the economists keep landing in the same place. Companies are pouring money into AI and seeing almost nothing on the bottom line, and the culprit is not the models. It is workflows never redesigned and managers never enlisted. Good news, in a way: management problems are fixable.
Read full story →Tasks, Not Jobs: Huang's Optimism Meets the Vanishing Training Ground
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI destroys tasks, not jobs, and that the fear is exactly backwards. He is probably right about the average. But a Swedish patent startup shows the catch: when the machine does the junior work, the ladder that turns novices into experts loses its lowest rungs.
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