12 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  1. The AI bubble is going to burst by late 2027/early 2028 – I’m hearing noises that it might be as early as end of this year. Alberta is going to end up holding the bag on a lot of empty data centre proposals.

    1. Check out the 2026 Harvard Commencement speech by an Asian comedian whose point is Fck AI and it is your duty to destroy AI. It is funny, and the grads loudly applause.
      Hope abides, however seemingly thin.
      For Actual Intelligence….read widely from the great canon, and keep your powder dry.
      And happy June. I saw an Eagle and heard his clear voice. It was better than anything online.
      Have a nice day!

      1. It was better than anything online

        Hazard of my profession that I have to spend a lot of time there. I’m going to go for a walk in the forest and maybe feed some birds. Thanks for the reminder.

    2. “The AI bubble is going to burst by late 2027/early 2028 – I’m hearing noises that it might be as early as end of this year…”

      Oh no!
      How will we live without all of those sassy baby videos, fake sciencey stories about creatures that never existed, and AI generated music (some of which is scary good)?

    3. Brookfield and the CPP are invested in one with Transalta. The GoC signed agreements with Palantir. Drawing conclusions based on previous behaviours, that one will get built and Palantir will be in it helping to quash dissent in Alberta, probably with massive subsidies. Alberta taxpayers will be on the hook to pay for it all. Ain’t life grand.

  2. Backup Generators at John Muir Health
    John Muir Health has a robust backup power system to ensure continuous operation during power outages. The facility is equipped with multiple generators, specifically:

    Standby Generators 2 800 kW each
    Temporary Generators 2 2000 kW each
    This setup provides significant resilience to the electrical system, ensuring that critical care operations can continue without interruption.

    Our local high rise, 244 bed, surgical center, trauma center, hospital runs on 2 backup generators, with 2 backup to the backup generators. A max. total of 5,600 kW.

    600 diesel generators at 2.6 mW each is just a STUPID amount of backup

      1. Our building codes assign an ‘Importance’ factor (I) to all structural and life safety calculations. Essential buildings … such as Hospitals and Fire Stations have much more stringent structural design standards … fire safety standards … and emergency power standards … because higher ‘Importance’.

        I find it incomprehensible that an AI Data Center would rank higher in ‘Importance’ … by a factor of hundreds of thousands .., than a hospital.

        Suggesting that EVERYTHING in our society is planned to become dependent upon AI … and the Data Centers that operate it. What could possibly go wrong? I believe Arthur C. Clarke presciently predicted what …

  4. Heh…so there is a queue of 30 or so companies wanting put up an AI data center in Alberta. That accounts for more than the entire electrical grid can accomodate, and the Olds project didn’t even bother to talk to the surrounding community until 14 days before they applied, but recommends over 600 Diesel Generators. Do you have any idea how loud that would be? LOUD. V-E-R-Y L-O-U-D.

    On top of that, the regulatory process may be solid (as suggested by the author of this piece) in that they have required a re-application on the Olds project for various reasons, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a whole army of protesters and agitators out there throwing up interference on any new nuclear power plant project in the province. That’s going to be a fight. I’m actually surprised Ottawa is going along with that subsidiary (and very necessary) project. You can’t have AI Data Centers up there without Nuclear power subsidizing the grid.

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