Dion
@2024dion
City & Regional Planning. KC by way of DC, Detroit, South Bend, & Jacksonville.
My latest blog post explains why Kansas City seems so isolated despite its absolute centrality in the country. This chart has a lot to do with it. Link in the first reply.
Related: Kansas City is the closest major city to both the geographic and population centers of the mainland US
Construction photo of OpenAI's Abilene, TX stargate site, one of the largest single-site compute clusters in the world. At buildout it will reach 1.2GW of continuous power draw; energy mix is wind from ERCOT + onsite gas generation.
It's official: we're developing 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity with Oracle in the U.S (for a total of 5+ GWs!). And our Stargate I site in Abilene, TX is starting to come online to power our next-generation AI research. openai.com/index/stargate…
Sunbelt planning isn’t just bad in the ways you think it is—it’s bad in completely baffling ways, too
Charlotte needs to build a public high school in Uptown There are currently ZERO public high schools in this 30 square mile area surrounding the center of the city Where are families who live in the city supposed to send their kids?
It's very funny that people pretend the US has bad congestion. 30 minutes is the average commute tolerance that economists have observed in cities across the world across all modes across all time. People aren't forced into the 1/2 hour commute by congested roads, they accept…
According to @ConsumerAffairs, the DC area has dethroned Los Angeles for having the worst traffic in the nation. They say the DMV's average commute time is now 33.4 minutes vs. 30.5 in Los Angeles. In 2024 DC was number 2.
Bad ridership figures for Florida's brightline service bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Missouri cities I've been to (not just driven through but spent time in): Kansas City Raytown Independence Lees Summit Greenwood Warrensburg Sedalia Jefferson City St Louis Clinton Camdenton Springfield Not a long list! When we travel in-state it's mostly for outdoor rec
Anthropic: the US needs to add 50GW of power to the grid by 2028 to meet demand from AI innovation and deployment. 25 training, 25 inference. Also anticipates their 2028 release model will need a 5GW cluster to train -- equivalent to Meta's recently announced Hyperion project.
New Anthropic report: Build AI in America. We outline what it will take to ensure America has the energy and infrastructure it needs to maintain its leadership in AI.
I was gonna write a post about how it seems likely that the average Amazon order is better for the environment than driving to pick up the thing yourself, but people already went and did a great deep dive on that. Seems to be the case, but only slightly generationim.com/our-thinking/i…
I’ve blocked more than 3,200 accounts since joining this platform five years ago.
Guess who walked 1/2 a mile today all by himself (okay my wife went with me but still)