Oh no, not the AI boom!
Shucks
Also gee whillickers!
Edit: now do the orange mussolini
I was about to post this if I didn’t see it
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.
Are they going to build a bunch of data centers and half sit unused or underutilized?
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.
The AI ruse that fooled the greedy gigacapitalists, you mean? The perfect optical ‘justification’ for devastating a workforce and liquidating functioning businesses to enrich the management and owner class, you mean? The one you will soon claim failed because it was everyone else’s fault rather than your over-eager gullability in endorsing the digital snake oil to beign with? At risk you say?!
Oh… Oh no, please… stop.
arson season is gonna be wild
I hope there’s lots of innocent bystanders streaming it… so we can all think about how to do better in the future.
Kinda like how a cancerous ‘boom’ is at risk of being excised once it’s identified by a doctor.
The “AI boom” concept doesn’t make sense to me. What do they think we need the “AI” for? I find that I don’t need it for anything, and as I’m “being left behind” without using it, I still wonder what they think I should need it for.
In my experience the “AI” chatbots are useful for people who don’t know how to do anything. But I’ve spent my life learning how to do everything I ever wanted to learn how to do, so I just don’t need that.
They need it to make workers redundant so they can keep even more wealth for themselves. That’s it.
DeepSeek showed the bloat in US AI systems. There was a massive panic that NVIDIA GPUs wouldn’t be needed and neither would the data centres. Then everyone had a cold shower and continued on. From an AI perspective the LLM is a dead end leaving all these data centres collecting dust.
C’mooooon Yanks, fight!
AI is wack and chynah like here this for free stop being so wasteful. They always say chyanahhhhh steals but I think it is the yankkkee that steals for he doesn’t understand the material.
