AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits
The emerging issue is not simply how much power large-scale compute systems consume, but how increasingly dense and synchronized computational workloads are beginning to alter the operating characteristics of the electrical grid itself through increasingly unpredictable demand that varies rapidly in both time and location, creating new operational challenges for grid operators.
Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?
However, another way someone might report increased individual productivity is by shifting the work onto someone else. That might be another person or team—writers end up fixing slop drafts and having to correct obvious errors, code reviewers wade through Pull Requests, and QA teams spend more time dealing with bugs. It also might be your reader or user who now has to wade through paragraphs of slop, is misled by inaccurate documentation, runs into bugs in your app, or finds it inaccessible to them. In this case you might feel more productive, but all you’ve done is move the work around, make someone else’s job or experience measurably worse, and reduce quality.
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
When Workers Cache is enabled, every cacheable request to your Worker hits Cloudflare’s cache first. If there’s a fresh cached response, Cloudflare returns it directly — your Worker doesn’t run, and you don’t pay CPU time for it. On a miss, your Worker runs, and if your response is cacheable, Cloudflare stores it for the next request. The next request from anywhere on Earth can be served straight from cache.
No writing, no reading?
Astryx
An open source design system that’s fully customizable and agent ready
Wordgard
Wordgard [wɜrd-gɑrd] noun A garden for cultivating words. Open-source JavaScript library implementing an in-browser rich-text editor.
Help EFF Cut the AI Hype
In the global race to build and dominate the AI industry, it can sure seem like the interests of ordinary people sit last on the agenda. It’s just the opposite for EFF. While companies furiously jam AI tools into their veins and your eyeballs, EFF’s technologists, activists, and attorneys have been meticulously cutting through the hype to ensure AI can serve your privacy and free expression. Technology has leaned into a new era, and this summer you can help EFF fight for the people.
Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with TanStack Start
We’ll look at Hyperdrive and why it’s needed, as well as some potentially counterintuitive ways we need to set up our database object (or any I/O object). We’ll use TanStack Start specifically here, but these principles apply to any web framework, though some implementation details might differ slightly.