Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Coupe of things here:. The main meat here we pretty much already knew like a year ago, about the generators being not properly permitted, causing polution.
But I hope this guy doesn’t get harassed by Musk, with a bunch of layers, though I’m pretty confident he will.
But it’s odd, at first I thought this engineer would be a software engineer, but he goes into much detail about construction and permitting, so I thought he must instead be a construction engineer.
But then he goes back to talking about API development. Not saying he’s wrong, but that seems like an odd role. Or the term “engineer” is not really the best description of his role.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
I don’t think the permitting is the problem. The problem is Not that they didn’t pay to get the permits and wait for the bureaucracy to approve them.
The problem is they shouldn’t have been doing any of this in the first place there isn’t the power generation locally to power these data centers and even when there is the prices for everyone who lives there will skyrocket.
The whole point of having regulatory oversight so that rich people can’t just build whatever the fuck they want where they want it quickly before anyone can do anything about it. Permit is just legalized bribery. If you don’t go through the steps and pay the local municipality they don’t give you the permit.