Grâce au photographe Stephen Voss, nous avons des images de la contruction du Datacenter Stargate d'OpenAI, à Abilene, au Texas.
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I was reminded today that Meta/Facebook's data center project is called Hyperion. Here are some facts about that name that may or may not be of interest.
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
It's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:
#dev #tech #AI #energy #power #DataCenters
Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.
#dev #tech #AI #energy #power #DataCenters
"New servers are less energy-intensive." Really? 🤔
This is said so often that it could almost be taken as an absolute truth.
By extension, it is often said that each new generation of hardware consumes less energy than the previous one.
Manufacturers communicate pretty often about this, including HPE (1), Nvidia (2), etc..
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Aproveitando que tem uma galera chegando por aqui vou fazer minha #apresentacao para expandir nossas redes e conexões genuínas 
Sou pesquisador de temas relacionados à #governancadainternet, o uso de redes e plataformas do #fediverso em instituições públicas para criarmos e/ou fortalecer nossa #soberaniadigital. Sobre esse tema, já no @nudecri estamos experimentando com uma instância própria aqui no Mastodon e no #peertube na procura de divulgar e comunicar ciência de forma autônoma e fora das plataformas das #bigtechs e vem dando muito certo. Já temos vários pesquisadores, pesquisadoras e estudantes do núcleo por aqui, assim como também, os principais veículos do Labjor como a revista @comciencia e o podcast @oxigenio. Também acabei de lançar um blog, @EloJornalismo para divulgar os avanços desse projeto.
Então se você tiver interesse nesses temas já segue a gente e bora trocar ideias para fortalecer a divulgação da ciência por aqui 
Além desses temas de pesquisa, também toco temas sobre #datacenters e seus impactos socioambientais. Tem esse relatório que fiz pro IDEC: https://idec.org.br/pdf/idec_estudo-nao-somos-quintal-de-data-centers.pdf
Recomendo também dar uma olhada no último episódio que saio no @oxigenio sobre o tema.
Também estou começando uma carreira como jornalista especializado em comunicação da ciência no Labjor/Unicamp, então você vai ver bastante coisa sobre isso por aqui.
Gosto também de falar sobre #cinema #series e #musica, por isso participo nas #tercinema e #musiquinta.
Dito isso, fica a vontade de me chamar para trocar ideias nesse bonito espaço que estamos fortalecendo juntos dia após dia. 
I wish every AI activity had compulsory information along these lines attached:
This request required this much energy to be completed. Plus monthly reports for every account.
We know the CO2 equivalent of our travels, this should be much easier to do
Fruit d'un peu plus d'1 an de travail avec Lorraine de Montenay, Cécile Diguet et Eric Fourboul, je suis fier de la sortie de cette étude, pour le compte de l'Ademe !
#datacenters #énergie #IAgen #IA #climat
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