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Re:Touching the Elephant – TPUs by pstuart on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:59PM (#46177365)
That's absolutely a fair dig but it's far more complex than that. Our whole manufacturing base being outsourced is on the corporations who chose that "cost-cutting" path.

And it's not an entirely binary choice on protecting neighborhoods and views; for example what's happening in south Memphis with the power plant that's powering the Grok center there is a classic case of environmental racism -- they are cutting costs on pollution regulation because they have a community that they can dump the externalized costs on via their emissions.

Nobody's saying Grok shouldn't have the power, it's just a small detail on how that impact is managed.

Re:Touching the Elephant – TPUs by renewiltord on Saturday December 06, 2025 @09:51PM (#46178737)
I don’t think anyone is convinced that if the small detail were managed that there wouldn’t be another God of the Gaps small detail.