At the end of 2024, a Silicon Valley team that included researchers from Stripe, Anthropic, Tesla, and elsewhere produced a report showing that solar microgrids are by far the fastest way to build the power that data centers need. “Estimated time to operation for a large off-grid solar microgrid could be around 2 years (1-2 years for site acquisition and permitting plus 1-2 years for site buildout), though there’s no obvious reason why this couldn’t be done faster by very motivated and competent builders,” the report states. That’s because essentially all you have to do is put up a bunch of solar panels and some batteries and run a wire to your data center—not build a huge centralized power plant and connect it to the grid. The report continues, “Off-grid solar microgrids offer a fast path to power AI datacenters at enormous scale. The tech is mature, the suitable parcels of land in the US Southwest are known, and this solution is likely faster than most, if not all, alternatives.”

I like this.

I was thinking about just closing the community, considering it’s not really active and got filled with US focused news. There’s lots of other more appropriate news communities on other instances for US news.

The Fred Miranda forums are a good spot.

https://fedecan.ca/donate

And memtest was booted off usb, not run in Linux or anything weird?

That’s really odd. I’d definitely expect windows to crash, and it seems odd that it wouldn’t if both your sticks are failing when running on their own.

I wonder if you actually have a mobo / CPU issue that windows can handle. Getting new ram seems like the logical next step though.

I wouldn’t expect so. I’d expect bsods and app crashes in Windows.

Are you overclocked? Have you done a bios upgrade and reset it to defaults?

I suspect something might be funky with your account, rather than the network / apps. The timeout message is a lie, you’re really getting 400 / 499 errors that seem to be related to this lemmy error message:

2025-01-20T17:30:03.366014Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: NotAModOrAdmin: NotAModOrAdmin
   0: lemmy_api_common::utils::check_community_mod_of_any_or_admin_action
             at crates/api_common/src/utils.rs:102
   1: lemmy_api::local_user::report_count::report_count

and:

2025-01-20T20:39:43.202677Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: CouldntFindPerson: Record not found
   0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::resolve_actor_identifier
             at crates/apub/src/fetcher/mod.rs:22
   1: lemmy_apub::api::read_person::read_person

I wonder if it could be a bug related to the unicode name you’ve got going on. Did you set that recently, or has it been like that since day 1?

I just restarted all of our docker containers, see if that helps? If not, try setting a normal name and confirm if that changes things?

Can you please DM me your public IP address? Also if you can give me the specific timestamps (down to the second if you can) you got the error message so I can match up against logs.

Thanks, appreciate this and all the other donations I’ve seen in the past day!

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ is useful for something similar too. They started it during the first Trump administration and just kept going.

Not usually to this extent.

I think that’s just a personal decision.

Ah yeah good call, thanks.

I’m not worried about it yet, we’re covering our costs as it is today with existing donations. I don’t want us to be like Wikipedia begging for money all the time.

Good question. Just going off the numbers on the main page side bar and doing some quick math, maybe about $1.10 per user per year.

Compute no, but memory yes. Lemmy is actually pretty lean and efficient, but 32gb is a bit tight for a few instances of it as well as postgres. We run multiple instances to reduce the impact when one stutters (not uncommon).

Upgrading to 64gb probably would have let us scale for the next year on the existing box, but I had this totally overkill hardware so might as well use it!

When purchased brand new by a now dying tech company, it was about 20-25k. I put dibs on it as part of my commission for managing the shut down & sale of their datacenters, this was just one of many such servers they owned.

Ah thanks for the offer but there’s PII concerns there.

Yes, can do active / active effectively. That’s basically stage 3 but it’s all on one box to keep costs down. We get software failure redundancy but not hardware.