Pray for Rain, Approve the Datacenter
The consequential part of an AI system keeps moving out of the model and into the wrapper around it — the cooling loop, the org chart, the config file, the ownership structure — and the tools we use to trust that wrapper are running behind it. Five stories, one recurring tension.
The Guardian finds about two-thirds of 809 planned US datacenters are slated for drought-hit land; closed-loop cooling saves water but trades it for fossil power that needs water of its own.
OpenAI's enterprise talks feature banks rebuilding their orgs: Allica Bank collapsing roles into "squadlets," Erste Group…
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