Kansas Crimson

shindig wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:08 pm https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-03-24/fa ... ata-center

$800M for a data center sounds crazy high. But, whatever, I’m guessing FB has the money.

100 jobs for all of that. Crazy.

Rumor is google is on its way here with their own.

I’m actually surprised it took this long for these to get here. So much cheap open land in area.

Also appalling how few jobs these create for localities and the tax break these companies get. But, these companies are job creators and our tax base! Sigh.

Farming wheat and servers.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:08 pm 100 jobs for all of that. Crazy.

Yeah no kidding. It will create a lot of construction jobs, which is good. Probably create a lot of spin-off jobs as well by having such a large company and state of the art data center in the metro.

Back2Lawrence wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:47 am I’m actually surprised it took this long for these to get here. So much cheap open land in area.

Also appalling how few jobs these create for localities and the tax break these companies get. But, these companies are job creators and our tax base! Sigh.

Apparently this is a big reason why meta, google, et al are interested in KC. KC is an abnormally large internet exchange point because of Sprint's (former) presence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_I ... ts_by_size

just saw a demo for molecular modeling via the metaverse

gotta admit it looks not only pretty stinking cool, but more importantly has the potential to be highly beneficial

I dont know what any of that means but I dont like it. get off my lawn! ill be here in the real world if anyone needs me

TDub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:56 pm I dont know what any of that means but I dont like it. get off my lawn! ill be here in the real world if anyone needs me

do you remember the old school models of molecules, with the balls and spokes?

imagine having that in virtual 3-D, where you can grab it and manipulate it, and then compare it with other such molecules in that virtual space. you can “test” to see how the molecules might interact, at the very least in a physical sense

this isn’t the one i watched, but conveys the principle

think of it like virtual tinker toys (assuming you played with those as a kid)

TDub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:56 pm I dont know what any of that means but I dont like it. get off my lawn! ill be here in the real world if anyone needs me

you know me well enough to know that generally i’d agree with you

but, for applications like drug discovery or even engineering, this has the potential to save tons of money and time if it’s applied properly

It sounds pretty cool Traddy but a little scary too. Maybe TDub and I have seen too many sci-fi movies.

definitely a little scary…no argument along those lines

Skynet will be sure to follow

I feel like every big scientific advance has come with that fear.

it's 28 degrees, 40 mph winds and snowing like a bitch (copyright CB). a damn blizzard. In April, what the hell? supposed to get 3-8" tonight. then 40 tomorrow, then snow, then 40, then snow....strange weather.

TDub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 10:48 pm it's 28 degrees, 40 mph winds and snowing like a bitch (copyright CB). a damn blizzard. In April, what the hell? supposed to get 3-8" tonight. then 40 tomorrow, then snow, then 40, then snow....strange weather.

we got 4” with more supposedly coming

gotta love spring time in the mountains

KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:55 am

TDub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 10:48 pm it's 28 degrees, 40 mph winds and snowing like a bitch (copyright CB). a damn blizzard. In April, what the hell? supposed to get 3-8" tonight. then 40 tomorrow, then snow, then 40, then snow....strange weather.

we got 4” with more supposedly coming

gotta love spring time in the mountains

I mean, no doubt we needed the precipitation.... its just a weird switch for mid April. Had to re-winterize things around the house, my early garden had started popping up, its probably dead now.....and this was probably a bad week to pick to work exclusively outside and off a scaffold haha.

ill just keep reminding myself we need the moisture.....because we do, desperately.