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Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.

The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals, and doled out multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers in recent months – some as high as $100m – to fast-track work on machines that could outthink humans on many tasks, a concept known as “super-intelligence” or “artificial general intelligence”.

Its first multi-gigawatt data center, dubbed Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, while another, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over the coming years, Zuckerberg said.

“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO said.

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[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

guess hes another megalomaniac. so none of the billionaires would be marginally better than trump. ugh....

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Complete delusion. There's nowhere for them to build this kind of thing, no municipality with the infrastructure to support it, and the cost would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars just to APPROXIMATE building it. This is just more billionaire propaganda to normalize the technology and the data centers when they """tone it down"" to an actually realistically achievable scale.

Bait used to be believable SMH my head.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Fuck the Zuck, he sucks.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

He looks like Woody Allen.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Suck will fuck this up to. Also there isn’t enough generators available for all of these data centers. They are at least a decade out from full integration. It’s all bullshit.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

can we please refer to him as his internet name?

Fuckerberg.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

i'm still waiting for metaverse

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a "virtual reality" that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an 'avatar' was.

That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Maybe the NEXT update will have Legs™️, for real this time, guys!

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago

"DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said Meta was investing aggressively in AI as the technology has already boosted its ad business by allowing it to sell more ads and at higher prices."

All this to... Sell more ads.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You know what? Do it. I want one of these guys to actually built one of these mega data centres. If we're going to ruin the environment anyway, we might as well encourage the billionaires to bankrupt themselves at the same time.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Billionaires will never go broke. They own the whole system.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 17 hours ago

If it was really all that, Zuck wouldn't be trying to sell it to us, he'd be hoarding it jealously and worshipping its very outputs like the second coming of some Lovecraftian deity.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You misspelled "blow up all that sweet data".

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. Putting all their eggs in a single basket like that is just begging an antagonist to bomb the fuck out of them in any future conflict.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 10 hours ago

I believe you misspelled "Butlerian Jihad".

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

As long as he pays for the hamsters food so they can power it, fine.

[–] logi@piefed.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago

Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How's the Metaverse coming, Zuck? Remember how your company was going to dump tens of billions of dollars into developing that digital hellhole?

What a damp pube.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The sad thing is they really did spend tens of billions on metaverse and all they have to show is that emoji art looking Zuck

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago

The free market is truly the most optimal system.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 23 hours ago

Nah, that's just what Zuck looks like.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 10 points 20 hours ago

Remember when Zuck the Fuck thought everybody would be flocking to his Metaverse of legless apparitions stuck right at the bottom of the uncanny valley?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 14 hours ago

Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 13 hours ago

Someone should stop this

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 21 hours ago

"Now I know what you're all thinking: But Zuck, will you have enough water and electricity to run this? Don't worry folks, we'll have plenty! ...You won't have any though. Sacrifices for my greater good are honorable and necessary! Be proud to be roadkill on my highway to even more obscene wealth that I absolutely in no universe deserve or need!"

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Prometheus & Hyperion are apt names for the first AI datacenters to gain conscience and create a firm called Skylabs.

By doing this they enable and spark up the Terminator ™ timeline.

Zuck is such a tool.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

I know it’s a joke, but those fancy word-autocomplete algorithms will never gain conscience. Like, never.

A plush toy would have better chances.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Look, all Zuck knows or cares about is that it's going to be really warm up on top, and he can slither up there to soak up some of the heat

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.

Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I totally knew why that specific Dam was relevant, but for those lemmings that don't, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest power plant in the world.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Another comparison is that a "standard" US reactor will output 1GW of power at steady state.

This data center would require 7000 nuclear reactors, just for it. The US current has 98 active reactors.

We are a ways away.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 23 hours ago

I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

Probably building in middle of desert to. Since the land is cheap. Data center that size how much water would it need? Not like us humans need that for drinking.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

More wasted resources for the pipe dreams of a rich boy.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just started watching Mad Men (yeah serious omission until now).

The Zuck looks a lot like the biggest assholes in the show.

Sorry I have nothing serious to add. It's not like he can be taken seriously anymore, on any level.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Build it in Hawaii, on top of your stupid bunker ya zarkin frood.

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He's already there, he's your problem now. Do something about it!!

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If i lived in Hawaii I would. I just don't want to see the US fuck the Hawaiian islands more than it already has.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's not the US, it's a billionaire, and that's why I said build it on his own giant mansion bunker that is already there. I'm with you, you're just not getting it.

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe we can put them both at the bottom of the ocean.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

Another Torment Nexus, huh?