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The new computer infrastructure is part of an effort by the company to keep its technology and all its cloud servers in Europe

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[โ€“] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Awesome. I've been using Mistral a lot for my own projects lately. It's not quite as fire-and-forget as the more advanced ones but with reasonably small beads tasks and frequent cleanups, it's workable. It's pretty good at writing Rust.

Using Devstral-2 with the vibe client. I'm guessing it's in some sort of free-of-charge testing phase still, because with my yearly pro subscription, I haven't incurred any additional token costs and have been using it quite heavily.

[โ€“] DreasNil@feddit.nu 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Great news! I just hope we have enough energy to support them... ๐Ÿฅถ

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

we do. this datacenter is in my backyard, as is four hydro plants. we don't have an energy deficit, we just don't have the infrastructure to move the energy to where it needs to be. thus, datacenter in random small town.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is some bullshit that's going to weak havoc on the already strained energy price crisis we have in Sweden. People in the north are paying upward of almost two thousand dollars a month for electricity during the winter months. It's insane to now see Sweden as some sort of energy haven. Downright irresponsible.

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 7 hours ago

the sudden upswing in prices up north is due to a newly opened export link to finland. this dc is not up north.

fact is we're in line with most of europe price-wise, which is a recent change from the extremely low prices we used to have. this is because of increased connectivity and due to our generation becoming more swingy as we transition to more wind. but we still have a big surplus overall.

what should really scare you is the planned implementation of the eu-mandated "effektavgifter".

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Damn, it must be bad if they're paying in dollars instead of Swedish Krona

[โ€“] DreasNil@feddit.nu 3 points 14 hours ago

Nice to hear! Thanks for the reply.