Tuesday, November 11
Daily News Stuff 11 November 2025
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- Micron has pressed pause on its new facilities in upstate New York, but has simultaneously hit fast forward on its work on factories in Idaho. (Tom's Hardware)
Not sure exactly why the switch. I wouldn't want to be building anything located in New York City right now, but it's not.
- Speaking of "you can't build that there" datacenters in California are sitting vacant waiting for the lights to come on. (Bloomberg / Yahoo)
Some of them have been waiting for six years.
Silicon Valley Power says it is working on upgrades to support its new customers and expects work to be complete on the 6th of Never.
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- Nvidia's $4000 AI mini-supercomputer is currently no faster than AMD's $2000 AI mini-supercomputer. (Notebook Check)
Well.
- If you're running Docker you might want to update it before your worms escape. (Hot Hardware)
Wriggly little buggers.
- The Minisforum MS-R1 12 core Arm mini-workstation is. (Serve the Home)
Is?So where are we on this one? I am not sure. CPU wise, folks just want Arm cores. The Radxa O6 uses the same CIX P1 SoC, and we had such a bad experience with it that we never did a review. The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same chipset, and it is unquestionably better. It has a ton of features when it comes to ports, internal slots, and networking.
But the graphics still don't work, so you'll need to add a low-profile video card.
- Wikipedia is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and used the paid API. (Tech Crunch)
You can also just download the entire site for free.
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California - the lights will come on only after the lights come on inside the brains of the politicians and the people that vote for them. Not holding my breath.
Posted by: Frank at Tuesday, November 11 2025 07:04 PM (amxkj)
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The MS-R1's graphics don't work...if you replace the bundled Linux (which is set to get updates from a university in China only) with a mainlined Ubuntu distro.
Jeff Geerling's got an article about this too; it seems like its software just isn't quite ready for prime time yet...and the unusual core clustering seems to slow it down too. Rather than 3 clusters of 4 cores, it seems to be one cluster of little cores, and then 4 more clusters of 2, based on the diagram supplied, and that seems to affect core-to-core latency and also power usage, somehow.
Jeff Geerling's got an article about this too; it seems like its software just isn't quite ready for prime time yet...and the unusual core clustering seems to slow it down too. Rather than 3 clusters of 4 cores, it seems to be one cluster of little cores, and then 4 more clusters of 2, based on the diagram supplied, and that seems to affect core-to-core latency and also power usage, somehow.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 12 2025 01:56 AM (bJkXU)
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LOL: "Meanwhile, it said that "human page views" had declined 8% year-over-year."
As Glenn Reynolds says, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Maybe they could try being less biased and less obnoxious about shilling for donations.
As Glenn Reynolds says, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Maybe they could try being less biased and less obnoxious about shilling for donations.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 12 2025 02:01 AM (bJkXU)
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The situation with the local government of NYC is maybe going to more obviously concerning from a distance, but the state government of NY is also fairly concerning. Which makes sense, the political machines that meddle with the elections at least overlap.
Upstate New York... My source who was there was paying very close attention to what the state government was saying about energy policy, and was concluding homicidal nutbars. (Upstate is fairly cold and wet, too much 'frugality' with energy means people die.)
So if Semiconductor processes need a large stable supply of power, NY state is bad.
Additionally, my understanding is that a lot of the capricious lawfare was state government level.
Idaho still has a relatively sane state government, last I heard. (Lots of refugees from Washington, Oregon, and California, so there is the usual concern about the immigrants Californicating the place. )
Upstate New York... My source who was there was paying very close attention to what the state government was saying about energy policy, and was concluding homicidal nutbars. (Upstate is fairly cold and wet, too much 'frugality' with energy means people die.)
So if Semiconductor processes need a large stable supply of power, NY state is bad.
Additionally, my understanding is that a lot of the capricious lawfare was state government level.
Idaho still has a relatively sane state government, last I heard. (Lots of refugees from Washington, Oregon, and California, so there is the usual concern about the immigrants Californicating the place. )
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, November 12 2025 07:49 AM (rcPLc)
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Regarding New York, it's also the case that most of the state's tax revenue comes from New York city and the counties nearby (source). An exodus of rich taxpayers and mobile companies to Florida and Texas would likely hit the state about as hard as it hit the city.
Posted by: Matthew Dixon Cowles at Wednesday, November 12 2025 11:51 AM (irynM)
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RickC:
Is it that I must have a heart of stone? Or was it the other way?
Posted by: normal at Thursday, November 13 2025 10:27 AM (e0fX0)
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I always thought the wording he used was a bit weird but maybe it's supposed to be ironic, re: heart of stone.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, November 14 2025 01:06 AM (d+Z9G)
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