Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW
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How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won't even relocate them as it's more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don't even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.
Release the meth heads on that copper
Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?
We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?
Homeless don't earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It's bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
Yes ricko ,kaboum
don't let crackheads know about it, but these things cost a lot of money, and these that don't have a lot of copper
Gods I could do a lot with just like two of those machines.
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Hmmmm
Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe
I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you'd hopefully be long gone by then.
God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker
Works like a charm on mobile without javascript.
Yup, Tom's is the last of the originals still running (HardOCP, anandtech and sharkyexteme are all gone), but it's absolutely a garbage site now.
In Chrome, choose reading mode. Generally works to strip all the bs.
A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?
Either way, I bet they are "cut-able" and have lots of expensive metals inside
They are self igniting :)
So they're using gasoline to run jet engines that rotate turbines that generate electricity? wtf
Article about this: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites
Not unusual in the slightest. They're often used as peaking plants that fire up when energy prices are driven high enough by demand. Can be setup to run on all sorts of different fuels.
This isn't for power peaks, it's for a temporary data center. There is nothing usual about it.
If these are supposed to be used as backup generators then gas turbines are a good fit in technical sense. Can start quickly, don't need a lot of space or cooling, can work on partial load; lead times are somehow short, and you can just pack it all in containers and set up anywhere which seems to be important. The catch is that efficiency is probably just below 40% instead of 60% and slightly above for regular CCGT plant, thst is you need to burn extra 50%-ish gas (methane is cheapest fuel and can just be piped). about anything that burns and can be pumped through a nozzle can be used
Then there's matter of smog. You're supposed to put giant catalytic converter (sorta) on this thing and normal powerplants do just that. Apparently techbro oligarchs decided it's not disruptive enough this way
but dw this won't last, talking about bubble broke to the mainstream now
Does this somehow get around local building codes?
Probably not however when you are rich, you can do anything.
Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
Oh yeah... This feels like a super sustainable industry
/S
Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their "x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece" dice
I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.
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All funded with Facebook and Instagram and a touch of glasses and oculus.
Things so easy to simply not use and even with this evidence of how shitty they are (nevermind the ability to shift politics) people won't quit.
We are all fucked.
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talk about soft targets.
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