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The Enshitification of ChatGPT
From Helper to Hustler: The Inevitable Enshitification of AI 🧠Intro: A Brief History of Enshitification Cory Doctorow famously termed “enshitification” - the process where platforms optimize first for users, then for business customers (i.e. advertisers or sellers), and finally for shareholders… while slowly ruining the experience for everyone. You know how this goes: A platform starts off clean, delightful, helpful. A breath of fresh digital air… Netflix gave us unlimited content. Read more → -
The Copilot Illusion
The Copilot Illusion: Why SaaS Chatbots Are Not An AI Strategy The age of AI assistants is well and truly here. SaaS vendors are rolling out copilots, chatbots, and AI sidekicks at an accelerating pace. Microsoft, Salesforce, Notion, even your HR platform - they all want you to believe the future of work is just one prompt away. But behind the glossy demos and monthly per-user upgrades lies a hard truth: these copilots are only as useful as the data they can see. Read more → -
Sovereignty for Sale
Mate, That’s Not a Sovereign Cloud… This week, the Australian Government proudly announced a $20 billion “sovereign” investment strategy - not in local startups, not in Australian cloud infrastructure, not even in open-source innovation - but with Amazon Web Services. That’s right. Sovereign. With Amazon. It’s hard to decide whether to laugh or cry. Let’s be crystal clear: Amazon is not sovereign. It’s a US-based hyperscaler, answerable to Washington, beholden to shareholders, and governed by the CLOUD Act - which allows the US government to access data wherever it resides, as long as it sits under a US company. Read more → -
Tin-Foil Kangaroos
Australia Leads the Global AI Freak-Out - What Is It Really Costing Us? We’re officially the jumpiest mob on Earth An Ipsos Global Advisor survey of 31 countries found 69 percent of Australians feel nervous about AI products and services - the highest “anxiety score” on the planet and nearly 20 points above the global average. While neighbours in Thailand and Indonesia are busy wiring chat-bots to book dinner reservations, we’re busy checking the pantry for extra Cling Wrap. Read more → -
The Heat Is On - part 2: Powering the AI Revolution, and the Fallout
In part 1 of this 2-part, we considered the march of liquid immersion cooling to help. Here, we review a hardware aceleration that is alreayd putting 1Mw racks on the horizon. With DCs already using more energy than south australia, the stakes could not be higher! 2025: Blackwell, GB300, and the Liquid-First Era NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 dropped the GB300 NVL72: 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 36 Grace CPUs, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling as standard. Read more → -
The Heat Is On - part 1: Cooling the AI Revolution, from Fans to Fluids
Every time you ping ChatGPT, a data centre somewhere gulps more power than your air-con on a 40°C Aussie summer day. AI’s compute hunger is turning data centres into thermal warzones, forcing cooling tech to leap from clunky fans to servers submerged in ocean depths. Now, with AI cranking the thermostat to 11, we’re at a crossroads. Let’s unpack the sprint from air to liquid cooling, NVIDIA’s liquid-first GB300, the ARM vs. Read more → -
Merging Infrastructure and AI
A Fluid Transition: Merging AI and Sustainability For as long as I can remember, I’ve focused on designing and delivering Microsoft-based cloud and datacentre solutions. As a Hybrid Cloud SME at Vigilant.IT, I worked on projects that modernized infrastructures and helped organizations adopt cloud-first strategies. My work was deeply entrenched in the Microsoft and Azure ecosystem, and I had the chance to tackle projects ranging from datacentre modernizations, cloud migrations, and to building scalable hybrid architectures. Read more → -
Arc resource bridge via powershell
… Quick tip - Arc resource bridge via powershell - working for AS HCI 22H2 Setup your powershell environment Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force Install-Module ` -Name PowershellGet -Force -Confirm:$false -SkipPublisherCheck Install-Module -Name Moc -Repository PSGallery -AcceptLicense -Force Initialize-MocNode Install-Module -Name ArcHci -Force ` -Confirm:$false -SkipPublisherCheck -AcceptLicense Define variables for the MOC: $vswitchName="ConvergedSwitch(compute)" $controlPlaneIP="10.10.0.37" $csv\_path="C:\\ClusterStorage\\Volume01\\Arc" $vlanID="57" #(Optional) $VMIP\_1="10.10.0.38" #(required only for static IP configurations) $VMIP\_2="10.10.0.39" #(required only for static IP configurations) $DNSServers=@("10. Read more → -
Managing your disparate workload fleet from a simple pane of glass with Azure Arc for Servers
Azure Arc Servers is a feature of Azure Arc that enables organizations to manage servers across different environments, including on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, through a single control plane. This allows organizations to have a consistent management experience across all their servers, regardless of where they are located. At a high level, the various features of Azure Arc Servers, include: Server management: With Azure Arc Servers, organizations can manage their servers using Azure Policy and Azure Security Center, which provide policy-based control, monitoring, and threat protection. Read more → -
Azure Local network config with NetworkATC
Network ATC deployment. Recommendations: Use the defaults where possible If unsure, refer to rule #1. This cluster is a 5x node each with 4x 25Gbps adapters. 2x for Compute & Management, and 2x for Storage. I set jumbo across the board. Don’t argue, just do it. I use default Vlan ID’s for storage (711 & 712) and use the IPs that get assigen via Network ATC. Yeh my OCD kinda wanted the last octet to align with the host number but at the end of the day, we just want it to work. Read more →