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I don't get it. $70-80 billion for an AI data center, plus continued investment for hardware upgrades - how are they planning on making money from this?
I get that we're in a bubble but I've never seen this level of collective delusion/desperation before in the tech space.
They're not.
I want to be clear; they want to and expect to make money from this. But they have no plan for how to.
Right now absolutely no one in the data centre industry can figure out the math for how to make a profit. But because everyone else is building data centres, they're all just assuming that someone else has figured it out and they don't want to miss the boat.
The emperor wears no clothes.
Well, let’s fire 30 million white collar employees and charge $1k/year for an AI replacement. That’s $30 billion a year every year!
We’re continuing to accelerate climate change for this?
Our descendants a thousand years into the future are going to look back on this time period with absolute disgust, knowing we sleepwalked into destroying the environment potentially for the remainder of our species’ existence - and we did it for the dumbest possible reasons.
I’m actually shocked you think humans will exist in a thousand years.
In some form... Sure. 7 billion humans can die and the species can still survive.
Mankind has survived and caused several mass extinctions in our millions of years of existence. We are a stubborn species and have a broken build with our tool use and information transfer capabilities.
Call it… optimism? I don’t think we’re that easy to eradicate completely, though that future looks pretty bleak to me - for the small population that continues to exist in it..
Thousand years from now they'll look at us as if we were the Roman empire and they are still in the dark ages.
Most species exist around the 100k to 10 million individuals range. The bigger, the less.
We really need to shut this shit down
While the rest of the country is rapidly crumbling, at least we know some gigantic Corp is doing everything they can to hasten our demise for their profit
My Frontpage on Lemmy is now currently telling me that we're on the brink of a terrible energy crisis due to the Iran war. And then this.
Piketon is radioactive and toxic to live near there due is longterm role preparing radioactive materials for profit. I wouldn't feel comfortable even driving through that town. I'm not sure if that makes it a good place for a datacenter or not.
More bit flips, then?
The bridge to true AI.
Sounds like the people building and running the thing will stand out like sore thumbs
If anything, it might be a good idea just to keep protestors away.
Maybe the protestos should just erect big "radioactive contaminated area" signs on the main roads if it's really that bad.
This Japanese corporation who appears to be harmless in comparison to other tech corporations with overtly hostile intentions...
Gross.
Surly they have EMP protection, right?
I can think of one good way to find out.
I think companies are maybe preparing for the Compute as a Service thing, but I don't think it will work.
It's gonna be weird when a lot of people switch to using local models....
That's one of the reason they're gobbling up all GPU and RAM. They don't want local models being viable to most people.
Yep, I don't even really like these things, but ollama is a docker container away and the models work just fine on my several year old AMD laptop GPU.
Gee, I hope there isn't a major spike in energy prices next month...
I believe williams is the LNG supplier and they will have this off the network of regular LNG. It will be on its own.