CRY! CRY! CRY!
SPREAD IT! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE!
this is 🔥
I wish, oh I wish, I could say it was mine. But I ripped it from elsewhere.
I ripped it because it was such fucking gold. I had to spread it like chlamydia.
And you have to spread it, you have to spread it too!
Lmao, I think I first saw this one on a post about Russian’s crying about their gas prices/queues.
Boo fucking hoo, the consequences of my (in)actions
Is that Mamdani?
Yep! It’s him with Ms. Rachel
Thanks!
I wish I could get this on an animated T-shirt
animated T-shirt
This seems like a harmless 2026 wish that will become everyone’s 2035 Black Mirror nightmare technology, where your clothing - your entire body - is now covered in a nonstop, blinking, endless advertisement space
It starts to prickle your skin, “watch this short 30 second ad to disable the itch for 30 minutes!”
Five minutes later, starts to prickle again.
Or:
You’re talking with your mother about such-and-such, suddenly your shirt starts blaring an obnoxious influencer screaming “HEY LOSER! DOES YOUR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?!?”
nonstop, blinking, endless advertisement space
for real. hopefully my ad-blocking glasses will work there too.
also - human adverts become the new low rent influencers, with people professionally walking around sticking adverts everywhere
I think we just wrote the plot for the first episode of the next season of Black mirror
As long as the episode ends with everyone getting naked
human adverts become the new low rent influencers, with people professionally walking around sticking adverts everywhere
People have already been doing that for decades…
Her miming really annoys me.
You don’t just waggle your hands. He’s doing it right. The hands stay in the same place but rotate. You’re mimicking rubbing your eyes and your eyes don’t move.
I can’t wait until this legitimate concern over environmental issues meets up with the reality on the ground.
I work at a DC. We have closed-loop water cooling. We have the same amount of water as a single residential swimming pool in our pipes. It is RO, de-ionized and hyper pure, purchased and brought by a tanker truck. It was filled once, more than a year ago and no more has been “used” since. The toilets use far more water than the servers.
Other companies DO abuse the environment. We would welcome legislation requiring this practice (and others) to make it a level field. There is no need for any DC to behave badly.
Data centers can be built in a responsible way, but the big ones aren’t, instead they are built with the dirtiest and most resource consuming means possible because that is the only way to build them as fast as possible.
Responsibly built data centers of the future should be obliged not only to use closed loop systems but also actually use their huge amounts of heat instead of merely wasting it. Feeding distributed heating systems (or alternative ways of productively using that heat) should be obligatory. I know the situation is not the same as with gas power plants for example but it is incredibly wasteful not to use all that heat for something productive. We are talking about many MW here. For reference, the fairly sizeable waste incinerator plant Spittelau in Vienna has a capacity of 400 MW. There are currently data centers being built in the US with capacities higher than that and absolutely nothing productive is done with the waste heat.
Strict regulation is needed but not only that. Those gas turbines would be actually already illegal today. Laws are not enforced anymore for the oligarchs in the US. In other countries that nonsense would not fly already today.
We are known for building big ones fast. You just need to know how and execute with care an skill. Good people are expensive, and we pay well. So we charge more. And our customers know we hit all of our targets, so they are happy to pay.
The waste heat is difficult to use as it’s not that hot. We don’t have steam coming off the servers. They have to stay cool, after all. The water is significantly cooler than many domestic water heaters.
Gas turbines are a fucking nightmare. A move of despair. When our hens are running full bore during tests, we are well under 60dB. Our groundskeeping crew is significantly louder. And modern diesel is nothing like the majority of old trucks on the road today. No odor, no smoke, low-sulfur fuel, etc.
It can be done responsibly. We do it everyday. But trade secrets and NDAs keep us from speaking outside of anonymous forums like this.
That’s why I said it is not the same as in gas power stations. It is perfectly possible though, the cooling loop doesn’t have to have the temperature of domestic hot water. That is what heat pumps are for. They have built data centers doing it already in 2017.
Excellent. Do you have a link or reference so I can bring it to management? I’d be a hero.
Thank you
What’s the power scale of yours?
I suspect the big ones use evaporative cooling because they’re trying to build in the gigawatt scale and IIRC there was talk about single racks reaching a megawatt soon, currently they’re ~150 kW.
The power density of those new nVIdia GPU compute servers is nuts and using evaporative cooling means less energy use than closed loop.
What I’m saying is, some of those planned datacenters wouldn’t be feasible with closed-loop water cooling. And yes, I agree with you that this should be legislated. If they can’t cool their servers without evaporating a bunch of drinking water, they can… have fewer servers.
We are rated 16MW. Small within my company. Half of that capacity consists of Blackwell racks at 135KW per rack. We use closed-loop at all our sites no matter the size. And we have some BIG ones under construction.
But that would cost more money! Then line might go up a little less! Won’t anybody think of the poor investors!
We do. Less local resistance=quicker build=more money sooner.
It’s because they do t like how we organize with technology. They’re taking their toys and going home. None of us can have computers anymore, it’ll all be cloud tablets they control.
You being tonedeaf to the wants and needs of your voters lost you the election.
hes being bribed by the techbros, of course hes tonedeaf.
These Parasites have been getting worse and worse for YEARS, and now we’ve reached the point where they aren’t even trying to hide their corruption.
“You don’t want this Data Center? Well, nobody cares what you want, and they’re paying me bigly, so it’s my entitled right to take that dirty money, and there’s nothing you can do about it, because you’ll STILL vote for me!”
Hey, wait a second, what was that last thing you said?
They ain’t worth the resources they drain because people keep giving them huge incentives. In Virginia for example they don’t even pay sales tax, pocketing $1.6 billion a year.
They also don’t create jobs. At least not locally. Both the data centers my employer has are practically unmanned. They have half the NOC guys working from there just to have someone in the building in the rare chance something happens. There’s zero reason anyone should be giving out incentives to have one of these fucking things put in near them. If they’re going to allow it at all charge the absolute fuck out of the company building it so that the locals benefit.
The voters told you No, that you couldn’t have that, but you threw a tantrum and insisted on it, so the voters had to give you a time out.
WHY couldn’t the Voters just LET him take his Bribes! WHO needs Water anyways?
Your lack of scruples cost you the election, motherfucker.
Imagine the failed democracy, where the elected representative says that what failed him was pursuing his own agenda, instead of the will of the people he is supposed to represent.
It’s not a banger, but I’m just going to leave this here.
How is this not violating a noise pollution ordnance
Serious answer? It probably does but the US government has put such things on hold for 10 years, to push the AI bubble the Trump family heavily invested in.
Serious mypillow guy energy, with less stimulants.
This is the way.
Good, that’s how things are supposed to work!
If a politician is so out of the loop that they have no idea what their own voters want, they should not be in office. Nice to see that work for once since it feels like it rarely does.
