IBM CEO Says There’s ‘No Way’ Spending Trillions on AI Data Centers Will Pay Off
December 2nd, 2025
Via: Business Insider:
AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.
Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta’s recent earnings call, words like “capacity” and AI “infrastructure” were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?
On the “Decoder” podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely “no way” these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.
Couching that his napkin math was based on today’s costs, “because anything in the future is speculative,” Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.
“Okay, that’s today’s number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that’s one company, that’s $1.5 trillion of capex,” he said.
Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: “You’ve got to use it all in five years because at that point, you’ve got to throw it away and refill it,” he said.
Related: Yann LeCun Leaving Meta — Large Language Models Are a Dead End
The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math
December 1st, 2025This is ending. pic.twitter.com/iZwltSmXr0
— Made by Jimbob (@ByJimbob) May 14, 2025
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the university.
Related: Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They’re Disabled?
Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers
December 1st, 2025Via: Reason:
Whether called homeschooling or DIY education, family-directed learning has been growing in popularity for years in the U.S. alongside disappointment in the rigidity, politicization, and flat-out poor results of traditional public schools. That growth was supercharged during the COVID-19 pandemic when extended closures and bumbled remote learning drove many families to experiment with teaching their own kids. The big question was whether the end of public health controls would also curtail interest in homeschooling. We know now that it didn’t. Americans’ taste for DIY education is on the rise.
Limited Hangout: Director of the FDA’s Vaccine Division Says COVID Shots Killed At Least 10 Children
December 1st, 2025Limited disclosure shoves the mass casualties under the rug. pic.twitter.com/tRek4WzqSy
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) December 2, 2025
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Food and Drug Administration’s top overseer of vaccine policy on Friday told employees that at least 10 American children died “after and because of receiving” a Covid-19 vaccine. In a 3,000-word memorandum first reported by PBS, Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s vaccine division, also committed to implementing changes to the FDA’s evaluation of vaccine efficacy and safety, and encouraged dissenting employees to find a new job.
“This is a profound revelation,” Prasad wrote. “For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” Prasad said the conclusion about children dying from Covid-19 vaccines was reached after he and other FDA staffers undertook a multi-month, “detailed analysis of deaths voluntarily reported to the [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] system (VAERS).”
That effort focused on 96 deaths that occurred between 2021 and 2024, and said “no fewer” than 10 of them were caused by the vaccines. “If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicted in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher.” He added, “It is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved. This requires humility and introspection.”
Britain: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic
November 29th, 2025Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Paper: Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nutritional Ketosis and Anti-Parasite Medications as Cancer Therapy
November 29th, 202522:54 re: Start of “Other agents.”
“It targets the mitochondrial substrate and glycolysis. So we have a mechanism now why parasite medications are working… Parasites and tumors use a common metabolic pathway, and a drug that works against parasites can be very effective against cancer, and that’s what we begin to see, especially under nutritional ketosis.”
Via: Public Health Collaboration:
U.S. Labs Create Tick Colonies To Study Foreign Highly Pathogenic Disease With 30% Mortality
November 29th, 2025Via: The Highwire:
The White Coat Waste Project uncovered 10 existing USDA contracts to work on mRNA vaccines, including one that is studying Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), a highly pathogenic tick-borne disease with a 10-40% case fatality rate. The research grant is given to the Agricultural Research Service in Manhattan, Kansas, in combination with researchers at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), which was formerly on Plum Island, where researchers were studying Lyme disease near Lyme, Connecticut, where the first outbreak occurred.
The research involves multiple partner facilities, including UC Davis and Texas Tech, where tick colonies have been established after they have procured the ticks from African countries where the disease is endemic. CCHF has never been found in the United States – it is endemic to Africa, Asia, and some European countries, including southern Russia.
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The research is analyzing the transmission of the tick-borne illness in cattle, sheep, and goats. They are conducting the research in Manhattan, Kansas, Lubbock, Texas, and Davis, California – three livestock and dairy agricultural hubs in the United States. The virus can be transmitted to livestock or humans from infected ticks and can be transmitted from human to human. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the mortality rate to be 30% with death occurring in the second week of infection.
“It seems as if many infected ticks are being shipped to Texas Tech, Kansas, and UC Davis, needlessly putting these centers for livestock at risk for a horrible disease that is not a threat at this time,” said Kris Newby, Stanford Science Writer and Senior Producer of the documentary “Under Our Skin.”
Newby said when the Plum Island facility moved to Manhattan, Kansas, she questioned why it would be transferred there. “It just makes no sense to have it in the middle of our livestock industry,” she said.
British Man Arrested for Posting a Picture of Himself Holding a Shotgun While on Vacation in the U.S.
November 29th, 2025Via: Telegraph:
An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US.
Jon Richelieu-Booth said he was shocked by the “Orwellian” decision by West Yorkshire Police (WYP) to prosecute him over the social media post.
The 50-year-old said that on Aug 13 he had posted a picture of himself on LinkedIn holding a shotgun while on a private homestead with friends during a holiday in Florida.
Trump: Airspace Above Venezuela ‘Closed In Its Entirety’
November 29th, 2025Via: The Hill:
President Trump on Saturday said the airspace above Venezuela is now completely closed off as tensions escalate between the U.S. and South American country over alleged drug trafficking.
“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The Hill reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for comment.
The FAA recently advised pilots to “exercise caution” near Venezuela’s airspace due to the “worsening security situation and heightened military activity” in and around the country.
On Thursday, Trump told military personnel that the U.S. will take action on land in Venezuela “very soon” as the administration works “to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many.”
“You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” he said at the time. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon. We warn them: Stop sending poison to our country.”
Under “Operation Southern Spear,” the administration has surveilled the Caribbean for ships moving narcotics toward U.S. shores. The Department of Defense has conducted a series of strikes on these boats, killing over 80 people since September.
Countries Raise Concerns Over Methane-Reducing Additive for Cows
November 27th, 2025Via: Jonathan Turley:
Scandinavian countries are moving to suspend the mandated use of Bovaer, a methane-reducing additive designed to reduce bovine flatulence. A contributor to methane pollution, cow farts were supposed to be reduced by the additive to reduce climate-harming pollutant. However, there are widespread reports of collapse, lethargy, reduced feed intake, fever, diarrhea, and significant drops in milk production. There are also reports of cow miscarriages and deaths, though most involve discomfort and farmers reported that the cows improved after cessation of the supplement. What could follow is a colossal product liability lawsuit.
Various countries, like Denmark, made the additive mandatory for the inclusion in feed only to have widespread reports of serious harm to cows. Norway and other countries have suspended the use of Bovaer. It is also used in the United States, but it is not required.
Most reports involve sickness and reduced production in dairy herds.
