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Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

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Kansas City, we are online! - Meta Data Centers We are excited to announce the Kansas City Data Center is now serving traffic. That means this data center is now part of our global infrastructure that brings our technologies and programs to life, m...

Meta's $1B Kansas City data center went online last year. Not a huge Meta fan, but a billion-dollar tech investment in KC is a billion-dollar tech investment in KC.

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Building an AI Payphone That Runs Entirely Offline A vintage payphone running a fully local AI voice assistant on two Raspberry Pis. 44 phone numbers, 4 AI models, zero cloud. Follow the build.

Ok so I bought a payphone and I've been wiring it up to run AI on a couple Raspberry Pis.

Pick up the handset, dial a number, talk to whatever picks up. There are 44 numbers - joke line, bedtime stories, a mystery you have to solve. No internet, all local.

carbonraven.com/payphone-ai/

DynamoDB migration takes 6-12 months on average. Most teams don't realize that going in.

I wrote up the cloud services hardest to leave. Not because they're bad - most of them are genuinely good. That's the problem.

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