For a lot of computing workloads, including AI inference (and training), the user won’t notice the difference if it’s being done in a different country.

With the US’s ‘100% tariffs on Taiwanese chips’ to be taken ‘seriously, but not literally’, at some point it makes sense to build additional ‘AI’ capacity in Canada instead.

I tried to find additional info on the report’s ‘re-allocating a considerable portion of [its] projected international spend to the US’, but I am unable to find the original report, to see if there were additional pages.

I just say ‘sorry, it’s been a long day, I’m socially exhausted, see y’all tomorrow morning.’ And it 100% shows on my face.

But that works because it’s an engineering team and introversion is fine and understood. We’ve definitely had feedback from some engineers that a full 8 hours of group work, and then dinner, and some social event after that is too much. Managers have learned since to just cut some meetings and make the social events part of the normal work hours.

This probably doesn’t work as well for the departments full of people who like to talk a lot.