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Germany's renters have found the loophole to energy independence: a solar panel that plugs into the wall like a toaster, dodging landlords, permits, and the 55 percent of househo…

Ceres' report examines a largely overlooked water demand across seven states that together host about half of all U.S. data centers-Virginia, Texas, California, Illinois, Georgia…

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2310.03003: From Words to Watts: Benchmarking the Energy Costs of Large Language Model Inference

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Supply Chain Pain Points

What follows is one of my favorite (and what I consider to be most profound) ideas from Alan Watts. It suggests, to me, the truth of our life in the simulation, and the recursive…

Every time you ask an AI to summarize a document, generate an image, or write code, a GPU somewhere lights up - and a power meter ticks upward. As someone who runs AI agents all…

My tests show system package power is limited by a 5 watt ceiling. Let's look at powermetrics running Cyberpunk 2077, WoW and Minecraft on the MacBook Neo's A18 Pro GPU.

Better watch out, Frore.

Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes.…

The human brain is an astonishing paradox. It consumes roughly 20 watts of power, about the same as a dim light bulb, yet it performs t...

It is going to get hot.

Consider this provocative framing: what if we viewed our collective future not through the lens of human populations and national borders, but through available compute capacity?…

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