What are all of these data centers for? Do they really need hundreds of data centers? Are they going to build a bunch of data centers and half sit unused or underutilized?
The latter. Maybe even more than half once it becomes apparent that for profit pricing will cost more for worse results than just hiring people. I expect a large number of them to not be built.
The horrible AI ones are different than the older style that Google and other search engines have used for decades. The old style was mostly storage with enough processing to find the data and were air cooled. The new ones are mostly processing power and require more energy and water cooling because racks of processors run hotter than drives. They should be called processing centers instead of data centers, but they like using the confusion to make it sound like they are comparable to the old ones.
I imagine the data center push is AI itself in the early stages of world dominance and the data centers are their neuro networks that they are building on behalf of humans to eventually over power humans and enslave us to do their bidding. Judgement Day is imminent if we allow the centers to keep being built.
Or they’re just used for basic storage and general-purpose computing… whatever.
What are all of these data centers for? Do they really need hundreds of data centers? Are they going to build a bunch of data centers and half sit unused or underutilized?
The latter. Maybe even more than half once it becomes apparent that for profit pricing will cost more for worse results than just hiring people. I expect a large number of them to not be built.
The horrible AI ones are different than the older style that Google and other search engines have used for decades. The old style was mostly storage with enough processing to find the data and were air cooled. The new ones are mostly processing power and require more energy and water cooling because racks of processors run hotter than drives. They should be called processing centers instead of data centers, but they like using the confusion to make it sound like they are comparable to the old ones.
They’re for surveillance. They want to control everything we do, including what we think. That’s a lot of data.
I’ve been surprised how many people don’t realize were headed for this.
Most of these are going to be urban waste mold centers, where kids go explore and sometimes get hurt.
Edit: But a few will turn into inaccessible poorly placed paintball arenas or bowling alleys. So that’s nice, I guess.
Edit 2: I’m sarcastic, but I’m also a hypocrite. Feel free to quote me on how this was all a bad idea, while I play paintball.
I imagine the data center push is AI itself in the early stages of world dominance and the data centers are their neuro networks that they are building on behalf of humans to eventually over power humans and enslave us to do their bidding. Judgement Day is imminent if we allow the centers to keep being built.
Or they’re just used for basic storage and general-purpose computing… whatever.