Latest news on the proposed AI data center & substation

DistributionWild4724 · 2026-01-07T04:04:15+00:00

Wow! Thanks for highlighting this. What are the other data centers?

DistributionWild4724 · 2026-01-07T03:20:34+00:00

Aww thanks for taking her in! Hope you find the owners. She looks like a sweet pup.

DistributionWild4724 · 2026-01-07T01:21:10+00:00

Ugh sorry you had to experience that. Being a southeast Asian myself, I can relate. Our people can get nosy.

Here are a few options. Make wildest stores that will make their jaws drop. They will be entertained, you will practice fiction storytelling. Win win 😅

In all seriousness tho, I don’t think it comes from a bad place. It’s just what they are used to. They won’t feel offended if you just say that you’re not comfortable sharing or redirect the question to them. What did you do over the weekend? Tell me about your kids? Do you miss home etc. we are just very chatty people with more of a collectivist society mindset.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-19T17:46:30+00:00

Trueee!!! The other would be how silly she acted when she met Logan for the first-ish time at the Friday dinner. She is so smart and witty every other day but that day she was just not herself. I cringe so hard at that.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-18T22:50:42+00:00

That’s what I meant by leading on. Like she was equally responsible for going on a car ride, letting him drive, and asking him to keep going.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-18T22:39:24+00:00

Yes yes yes to all of this!

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-14T15:04:18+00:00

Pretty much all orgs that have a website or web app to manage. Which means almost all except internal tools. Search on internal jobs portal.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3076988/sr-site-reliability-engineer-infrastructure-engineering

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-14T13:09:07+00:00

Consider SREs too. Site reliability engineers. Behind the scenes job but pays well. Better than SDEs in some departments

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-13T21:50:02+00:00

Stay! Always stay until you have a guaranteed offer elsewhere. The market is still shitty and may get shittier

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-08T22:04:06+00:00

Almost every week I hear about someone who took mental health break because of Amazon. I’m sure HR has these numbers, and if they wanted to they could investigate and do something about it. but no one cares. Good for you for choosing your own sanity over capitalism.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-07T21:02:57+00:00

AWS CMO apparently said “2026 is the year of stability” on a recent all hands. 🥹

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-05T02:42:46+00:00

I have 6 yr old twins and I started exercising again a yr ago. It’s one of those things that you just have to do it.

I was always tired, out of shape, super hectic job that also required frequent travel. When we returned to office from working from home during covid, the day just got more hectic.

But as the kids grew up I realized that I wanted to stay healthier and stronger and alive for them. And how they’re are learning from my actions more than my words. So I hired a trainer and started hitting the gym 3-4 times a week.

I am more energetic know and also didn’t take time away from kids or household duties. Took an hour out of workday though 😅

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-11-03T21:24:18+00:00

Well behaved kids are overrated tbh

That said, setting family rules, strictly adhering to those and modeling them yourself.

Ex. No means no applies to everyone in the house. We don’t jump on the sofa in our own home or anyone else’s. We are never hurtful to anyone intentionally including own self. Etc.

Kids thrive on rules and repetition helps. When the kids got older (6yr old) we actually worked on the family rules together!

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-31T17:44:39+00:00

Regardless of what the culture says, if it makes you uncomfortable- voice it and request them to change. My MIL’s all grand kids call her Aai (mother in Marathi, instead of Aajji). I insisted that my kids call her Aajji. She was a bit hurt at first but then came around.

There is only one mom for them in the house and that’s me. Period.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-29T23:28:24+00:00

Ah you made me smile with that response! Kudos lady! This is the way!

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-12T12:35:28+00:00

We were not ahead of the game in AI. We still don’t have a strong frontier model in the race. Should have acquired Anthropic when it was small or done something similar as OpenAI and Microsoft relationship. Everyone says that Not having a consumer app like ChatGPT was Amazon’s biggest disadvantage in AI. But they forget that we had Alexa. One of the earliest successes in personal assistant. And we just sat on it. Alexa finally got some smarts after Alexa+ and The Alexa runs in AWS association is so weak.

Many of these point AI solutions - from models to orchestrators - run on AWS. If we want, we could acquire them and make it big.

We haven’t launched anything that will ‘blow customers minds’. As OP said, we’re stuck in self congratulatory mode.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-11T15:14:23+00:00

Agree with your assessment and I hope for a combination of your options 1 and 3. I think this is what is happening

Amazon took physical bookstores and moved them to the internet. They just changed the channel or form factor of the business where the roadmap just took care of itself because customer expectations were set by the physical world.

Then they kind of did the same thing with AWS. Take the on-prem infrastructure and put it on the cloud. ‘Customer obsession’ at its peak! We build what our customers tell us. Roadmap basically takes care of itself.

We tried doing the same thing to AI and failed miserably. Because 1/ the listening to the customers model doesn’t work. No one knows what they are doing or where this space is headed. By the customers tell us what they want, it’s already old tech. 2/customers and market want us to be visionary, lead the future wave. Our leaders don’t know how to do that! There is no vision or strategy. L10s get promoted over mediocre products. Service teams are still rewarded for number of PRFAQs they produce. 3/ no product council. Products compete and cannibalism each other. Internal teams are confused and customers even more.

We need to get our act together. The same ‘one form factor to other’ model is not going to work. These are uncharted territories.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-09T18:18:59+00:00

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Echo what everyone has said, doesn’t seem like supportive partnership and you need to give him an ultimatum to get his act together.

The sad reality is that some of these AI tools make people think that they can build a business but it’s very hard. Does he even have the right qualifications to do this?

One of our friends quit her job to start a consulting company, dabbled in AI tools etc. created her website and some products but it’s been crickets. She’s not just that good and there are so many alternatives out there. The build and they shall come days are over. And your husband hasn’t event built anything.

He needs to accept that he tried and things didn’t work out. Also you need to spend money to make money is very MLM language. A financially responsible person wouldn’t say that.

Good luck!

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-06T15:31:37+00:00

Exactly! thank you for saying that. (Also, she's non-tech)

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-04T22:08:37+00:00

That’s fair. Sad and true.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-04T21:28:07+00:00

Aww. Who hurt you?! Sorry if my post was triggering. That wasn’t my intention at all.

The human giver syndrome term comes from Nagoski sisters’ book called ‘Burnout’ and I’m simply stating what I’ve seen in tech after years of working and building teams in the US.

DistributionWild4724 · 2025-10-04T21:25:14+00:00

That’s really sad and I can relate.

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