Readit NewsThey've been charging a premium for, and marketing, "Availability" for decades at this point. I worked for a competitor and made a better product: it could endure any of the zones failing.
IAD datacenters have forever been the place where Amazon software developers implement services first (well before AWS was a thing).
Multi-AZ support often comes second (more than you think; Amazon is a pragmatic company), and not every service is easy to make TRULY multi-AZ.
And then other services depend on those services, and may also fall into the same trap.
...and so much of the tech/architectural debt gets concentrated into a single region.
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AWS doesn’t talk about that much publicly, but if you press them they will admit in private that there are some pretty nasty single points of failure in the design of AWS that can materialize if us-east-1 has an issue. Most people would say that means AWS isn’t truly multi-region in some areas.
Not entirely clear yet if those single points of failure were at play here, but risk mitigation isn’t as simple as just “don’t use us-east-1” or “deploy in multiple regions with load balancing failover.”
AGI is absolutely a national security concern. Despite it being an enormous number, it'll happen. It may not be earmarked for OpenAI, but the US is going to ensure that the energy capability is there.
We're doing a pretty shit job of ensuring that today. Capacity is already intensely strained, and the govt seems to be decelerating investment into power capacity growth, if anything
North American grids are starving for electricity right now.
Someone ought to do a deep dive into how much actual total excess power capacity we have today (that could feasibly be used by data center megacampuses), and how much capacity is coming online and when.
Power plants are massively slow undertakings.
All these datacenters deals seem to be making an assumption that capacity will magically appear in time, and/or that competition for it doesn't exist.
Those poor kids have learning deficits. The "well-off" kids often have morality deficits.
A mom or dad raising them properly might help them more than being Student #642 in a government childcare facility.
This isn't an argument against childcare. My children attended preschool for 3 years before Kindergarten. But I'd rather that people got equal support to have a stay-at-home parent so that people can choose.
- Kids need lots of time with their parents
- Kids need lots of time around other kids
You can do that by sending them to daycare, and ALSO spending lots of time with them when they're home.
You can also do that by taking time off work, and then taking your kid(s) to places with other kids.
Both work; and it depends on your context which works for you.
It's a really nice workflow.