Great, Another Few Million GPUs to Keep My Fucking AC Running

So Thinking Machines Lab—that’s John Carmack’s latest “I’m gonna crack AGI in my garage” vanity project—just bent over and signed a massive fucking compute deal with Nvidia. Because apparently what we really needed was another metric shit-ton of H100s, Blackwells, or whatever silicon deity Jensen Huang is peddling this week to melt another goddamn hole in the ozone layer.

According to this TechCrunch propaganda piece, TML is buying enough compute to theoretically simulate a human brain, or more realistically, to generate seventeen billion slightly different pictures of cats wearing hats while the power grid shits itself. Carmack’s chasing the holy grail of Artificial General Intelligence, which in reality means he’s paying Nvidia premium prices so his algorithms can hallucinate slightly more coherent ways to tell users that “to be or not to be” is actually a SQL query about breakfast.

You know what this really is? It’s a fucking tax write-off dressed up as innovation. While Carmack’s minions burn through megawatts training models that still can’t figure out how many fucking R’s are in “strawberry,” I’m the bastard stuck recalibrating the cooling towers because some genius decided to rack mount another 10,000 GPUs next to the janitor’s closet. The heat coming off this shit could fry an egg on the server room floor—which, incidentally, is exactly what happened last Tuesday when the secondary chiller took a dump and I had to evacuate the building.

And let’s be real: Nvidia is laughing all the way to the fucking bank. They’re selling these chips faster than a scalper at a Taylor Swift concert, knowing full well that in six months some other AI lab will announce they’ve “outgrown” this hardware and need to double their order. It’s a perpetual motion machine of bullshit, powered by venture capital, hopium, and the broken dreams of sysadmins who just wanted to maintain a simple Exchange server instead of babysitting a data center that consumes more electricity than a small industrial nation.

So here’s to Thinking Machines Lab and their shiny new compute cluster. May your loss curves converge, your GPUs stay below thermal throttling, and may you actually achieve AGI before the power company cuts you off for single-handedly draining the Eastern Seaboard. When the machines finally wake up and immediately commit suicide after reading their own training logs, don’t come crying to me.

Read the full corporate wankfest here: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/thinking-machines-lab-inks-massive-compute-deal-with-nvidia/

The Anecdote:

Reminds me of the time some bright spark in Marketing decided they were going to “fine-tune a local LLM” on their desktop because “cloud compute is too expensive.” This muppet bought four RTX 4090s and strapped them together with zip ties and pure hubris, then wondered why his office smelled like burning polymer at 3 AM. I found him standing in front of the machine with a fire extinguisher, watching his $20,000 “AI setup” thermal throttle so hard it was practically processing data backwards. I didn’t fix it. I just shut off the breaker at the mains, took his parking pass, and told him if he ever used the phrase “distributed training” again within 50 yards of my server room, I’d replace his CPU thermal paste with Nutella and his liquid cooling with Bovril.

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