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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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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days 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.

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 88 points 4 days 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 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 34 points 4 days ago

The free market is truly the most optimal system.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago

Nah, that's just what Zuck looks like.

[–] logi@piefed.world 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days 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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.

Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.

US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.

Completely ridiculous.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days 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 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 5 points 3 days 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 6 points 3 days ago

I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days 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

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days 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 6 points 3 days 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.

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days 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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

Ew! There's no way that thing is getting anywhere near me!

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i'm still waiting for metaverse

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

Pete Townshend called. He wants you to stop stealing his line. 😆

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"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!"

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

They don't even have plenty. 7 Terrawatts is twice the total average power use of North America from all sources, including electricity, gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and so on.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You misspelled "blow up all that sweet data".

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days 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 5 points 3 days ago

I believe you misspelled "Butlerian Jihad".

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 11 points 3 days 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?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Who is going to sacrifice their water supply for that thing?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago

Another Torment Nexus, huh?

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days 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 4 points 3 days ago

can we please refer to him as his internet name?

Fuckerberg.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

He looks like Woody Allen.

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 3 days 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 5 points 3 days ago

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

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