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Samsung Heavy Industries and a Dallas-based firm have signed their first engineering contract for a floating data center off the Texas coast. The waterborne facility would offer fifty megawatts of capacity and use surrounding water for cooling, though fresh uncertainty around the Texas power grid is already casting a shadow over the project's timeline.
Meanwhile, a question worth sitting with: is the current wave of AI and tech product announcements actually delivering, or is it mostly vapourware? A piece gaining traction on Hacker News argues that a troubling gap has opened between what companies announce and what they ship, and that the pace of bold claims has quietly outrun the pace of working software.
And on a wry note, one writer on Mastodon points out that for all the alarm about artificial intelligence going rogue, we have yet to see a single headline where an AI spontaneously organized workers into a union. It is a small but pointed observation about the gap between AI fears and AI realities, and what we choose to worry about versus what actually happens.
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