Holy Hallucination, Batman. AI runs on iPhones. Why the gigawatt data centers? [View all]

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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!!"