A bit of poignancy/reality: As the E.W. Scripps Company was publishing this piece the company is trying to figure-out how to deal with A.I. before A.I. puts the old-line media company out of business.
From Tampa Bay 28, part of Scripps News Group, February 26:
Scripps News got rare access inside a Dallas data center as thousands of new facilities are built to meet surging AI-driven demand.
Thousands of data centers are being built across the country this year to power the AI boom, but few people ever get a look inside.
Scripps News got rare access inside Digital Realty's data center in Dallas, Texas — one of the largest data center platforms in the world — to see what's really going on behind the walls of these massive, yet somehow nondescript facilities.
Getting inside requires passing through a single-file turnstile, multiple card swipes and a biometric scan. Once inside, visitors must be careful around the surrounding cages that house servers — just touching one of them sets off a building-wide alarm....
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