That's fucking insane.
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plug the cooling vents of those crapfactories
Blow the water mains.
Make a drone that can land on the roof, drop some thermite to melt a hole down into the data center, then have it lower a small EMP device into the hole and fry their whole system.
We could soon heat entire countries with the heat from these doomsday factories
Can they capture that heat and recycle it to partially power the site?
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As a lifelong datacenter tech it really sucks seeing what monster this has all become. And I don't know what else I would do to pay the bills.
I used to work in automation within the auto industry. Once I became aware of the damage I was doing by being an enabler, that shit began to eat away at my mental health. I knew I had to make an exit plan when all of my day dreams while working there involved Molotov cocktails.
I don't envy anyone who has to deal with that kind of mental load. Knowing the harm you're causing while wanting the opposite but still needing to survive the next day, week or month.
Sigh… wasting power, wasting nand chips, hard drives and for what? Aiding climate change.
But at least we can have a hallucinating chatbot.
No bro llms are good bro they're so efficient bro trust me.
I need 10 trilllion more bro and it'll be so good i promise.
This is perfectly timed because WA states legislature ended their session this year and decided not to take up the topic of regulating data centers. Even better knowing that the PNW just had the warmest winter in history, record low snowpack and nearly every month a new mega data center is opening.
Big brain moment. If we stop monitoring it, then problem doesn't exist.
Worked for COVID amirite?
You sir, just got a job in the nuclear regulatory c.ommission.
That’s a lot of degrees. Wow.
AMERICAN DEGREES!
What's the long/short term on burning them to the ground
How could they accidently be destroyed? So we could prevent it?
"Whoops" scenario thought experiment please
The findings are particularly alarming, the scientists say, because AI data centers are set to boom over the next few years
Citation needed, CNN. This is a good reason not to build them, but right now, data center construction is stalling:
Only 5GW of data center construction is actually in progress globally at this time, despite somewhere between 190GW and 240GW supposedly being in progress.
...and may this trend continue.
They are basing it on all the component manufacturers who said everything they produce for the next two years will be going to data centers.
I want to say CNN should know better than to just trust them at their word, but it's CNN...
I think multiple large memory and storage manufacturers publicly saying the same thing is about as reliable as it can get.
Promises in the AI space are a dime a dozen. If you're referring to the "letter of intent" that doesn't actually mean RAM is changing hands...
It all sounds as conclusive as the other things listed from that same link, including the $1 billion Disney loudly promised OpenAI, and quietly dropped.
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This is very similar to Rainworld lore
When will some bot/AI bro come to say "um, ackchually, thing that is important for human life is worse, Malthusianism is the solution"?