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Utah's Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) on Friday
approved a development agreement for a "hyperscale data center campus"
in Box Elder County that could eventually consume 9 GW of power
-- more than double the state's current average electricity use of roughly 4 GW
Update • No public comment allowed on hyperscale data center project
as Box Elder County Commission decides whether to approve
(He did)

…crucially, I’d argue that (2) is •not• the only cause of (1): narrowing the problem space was not the only thing Hypercard did that lowered the barrier to entry. There have been other tools that also aggressively narrowed the problem space yet did not catch on the way Hypercard did.
Narrowing the class of problems is •part• of Hypercard’s barrier-removing success, to be sure! For example, I mentioned UI layout upthread. Hypercard stacks aren’t resizable. Layout involved absolute positioning, end of story (mostly).

#hubris

Apples KI-Strategie: Spielt Tim Cook „3D-Schach”?
Abermilliarden setzen Firmen wie Google, Meta oder Microsoft in Hyperscaler, während Apple extrem knausrig ist. Ist Tim Cooks Zurückhaltung klug?
https://www.

Apples KI-Strategie: Spielt Tim Cook „3D-Schach”?
Abermilliarden setzen Firmen wie Google, Meta oder Microsoft in Hyperscaler, während Apple extrem knausrig ist. Ist Tim Cooks Zurückhaltung klug?

"They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2°C (3.6°F) in the months after an AI data centre started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1°C (16.4°F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometres away. Seven kilometres away, there was only a 30 per cent reduction in the intensity."

Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $10.6B and says a top hyperscaler is on track to begin using its chips later this year; QCOM jumps 7% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29…

An interesting talk about CRA from Hans Bak
#fossnorth

Because some of the replies, while good, have wandered a bit off the rails, please consider:
1. “We should study and learn from how Hypercard lowered the barrier to entry to programming.”
2. “Hypercard or something like it would be unsuitable for many / most modern applications.”
Please note that both these things can be true (and both are in my view). Upthread I’m pushing for (1). And…

Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity (Mimi Billing/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/verda-raises-e100m-to-build-european-hyperscaler/

Verda raises €100m to build European hyperscaler, plans to hire 100+ people and launch in new markets
Finnish cloud provider Verda, formerly known as Datacrunch, is today announcing a €100m debt and equity round led by Lifeline Ventures.