“I estimate $200bn to $300bn worth of GPUs are either in warehouses or sitting in unpowered data centres.”Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the data center overbuild and Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to it’s data center project in New Mexico. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“The threat of AI is there to force down wages and essentially force down the leverage of workers.”Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscalers Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the intersection between AI and labor movements as the AI backlash grows and new figures reveal support for unions are at a record high. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“They need trillions of dollars in revenue. Who’s going to pay it?”Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how some of the founding principles of the AI industry are now in question after business leaders admit they’re not using frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“Nobody cared about the model.”Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the tech underpinning the AI hype and how the industry is moving away from reliance on frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“They’re talking about super intelligence and AI that trains itself so you take your eye off of what’s happening today.”Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about if the AI industry can afford to slow down and why industry leaders are calling for a pacing of development in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.