Anyone else noticed the increase of Vibe coded plugins flooding the market?

[ksandvik]

The AI Center tech bros are now putting their eyes to countries with plenty of water, cheap electricity, cold climate and local politicians duped to believe they get a lot of new jobs.

[D-Fusion]

The AI Center tech bros are now putting their eyes to countries with plenty of water, cheap electricity, cold climate and local politicians duped to believe they get a lot of new jobs.

Yep. We are in for a very bumpy ride.

[jamcat]

Just to understand what we're actually talking about. This is the claim that kicked off the data center fear and loathing. It overestimated water usage by 1000 times because journalists don't understand math.

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the entire population”—a figure which, thanks to a unit misunderstanding, appears to have been off by a magnitude of 1,000.

https://www.wired.com/story/karen-hao-e ... statistics

Here is the research writer that exposed the error:
https://andymasley.substack.com/s/ai-an ... e?sort=top