‘They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not’: Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center

If one thing is true about AI, it’s that there’s a lot of money in it. Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up tens of billions in investments. So you’d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever…

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If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you’ll need to manually update instead

Keeping on top of chipset driver updates is a boring, but necessary part of maintaining a modern PC. Unfortunately, both myself and fellow hardware nerd Jacob Fox have run into an issue with the AMD Install Manager, which attempts to install the latest chipset driver and fails miserably on both our machines. Very unhelpfully, the…

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