Holy Hallucination, Batman. AI runs on iPhones. Why the gigawatt data centers?

[usonian]

WHO REMEMBERS MAINFRAMES?

Nobody will ever need their own computer.

And how did that work out?

Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone With Full Offline AI Inference
By jerrywanint - April 15, 2026

https://www.gizmoweek.com/gemma-4-runs-iphone/

Offline capability, in particular, changes the calculus for enterprise use cases — field applications, healthcare settings, and scenarios where data privacy rules out cloud processing entirely.

Opinion:
In a new world, excess power generation for gigawatt plants will instead be cooling our homes FOR CHEAP. Maybe for FREE. And ICE torture chambers will house homeless people (comfortably and safely) and ICE will be sent to hell, where ice is desperately needed.

Or Iran.

Like the world's bravest leader.


"This is the big one! I'm comin' Elizabeth Jeffrey!!"

[Figarosmom]

1. I hate when they make him look thiner

And no saggy skin on his face or bags under the eyes.

[usonian]

2. That was undoubtedly AI. I can't avoid it for my "instant" graphic creations.

I asked DuckDuckGo not to return AI results. It did, anyway.

That was a little bit of work.

Dad was the artist. Long ago, I built computers from bags of parts, empty boards and miles of solder, when it was loaded with lead, to get to this advanced computer stage. I still do almost all of it with REAL intelligence.

I had a network fail tonight. There's just no mercy for me. Rebooting everything, changing settings like crazy. Came back at its own pace.


CIAO.

[msongs]

3. read somewhere not too long ago u can get a complete Ai on desktop NOT

connected to the internet. it was a program that was as good as the data center hogging kind. just sorta read it and move along

[usonian]

4. I can't keep up. There are models that run on desktops.

I doubt that the remaining customers, big businesses, can afford to pay back the trillions invested (methinks in a race to "winner takes all" that isn't going to happen.

Government can afford it but then has to admit why.

1. To spy on everyone mercilessly.
2. To kill more, faster.

People are finding out.

"So that's why memory prices doubled, and I can't even find any to buy"

Personal use really doesn't need mega-scale.

It's used largely for porn over at Google and Grok.