The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of good and bad: and covering both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”

One interesting potential side effect of the nature of AI generated music & video is that it may make good critics good at making stuff. These systems have high variance, so the best approach is making many songs/videos and selecting the best. Critics are practiced at selection

I don’t think how people are tracking how quickly this is happening, for better or worse.