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Also, billionaires running a "day without data centres" would result in people being horrified by how much control these fuckers have over our lives and a massive backlash against them.

I'd settle for a year

Even if they stopped generative AI for a day, it would push a lot of customers to use local AI and realise that they don’t really need to spend 200 a month on Claude pro to get good looking writing answers.

Jensen has been walking back the "AI Factory" branding to try and conflate existing datacenters with these new token mines.

Yes, but the collection and collation of universal surveillance data would stop.

I've seen someone argue the exact point that new data centers are for things like AWS and pointed to the strikes in the middle east by Iran as proof

The irony is that those would be the first to be shut down because they’re unprofitable services

There would definitely be a blip in some industries if all the AI data centers were knocked out as a lot of key infrastructure (in the UK at the very least) have bet the farm on GenAI & forced it into a bunch of core processes. Worth a little pain to wipe out GenAI tho & on the heads of corps be it.

Not at all. I'll post the link here on Bluesky on Monday.

For a company who relies on cloud services to operate? Not really. In both cases, money stops flowing due to external factors - if it’s malice or incompetence, it doesn’t matter that much. If it’s in the middle of the working day, the result is similar.

when our supreme court minister left us a month without twitter, most of us didn't go back to twitter. so uhhh bring it on I guess ("it" being "going without AI specifically")

LOL. This would be a breach of contract. The corporate customers would bleed them dry with contractual penalties.

Given that the expenses of the AI companies are too high already, I have no idea how and who is going to afford to pay to use all these data centres that are planned to be built. The government is literally the only one who can from what I can see.

you don't Three Mile Island reopened to get Netflix and TikTok

morally bankrupt too

This is why it's nice to have some backup cash despite it being rather rare.

Basil continues to suck, more news at 4.

By comparison AI datacenters run at max load 24/7 to get as much AI training as they possibly can. Which previously you only did if you were mining bitcoin.

I listen to enough interviews that I heard it in your voice

Which is what makes this bubble so destructive. When this scam economy goes tits up all these data centers are nothing but scrap. At least the railroads gave us infrastructure, the dot com bubble built out fiber networks we use today.

I've been wondering, what does make them useless for other things? They would still be a huge destructive waste not worth the "at least making infrastructure" justification I imagine, but them being outright useless for anything else surprises me, in my limited understanding of this kind of tech.

Data centers are factories that manufacture lost jobs.

Meta has 10 of these 30 MW DCs in Prineville on the same campus. So total of 300 MW of IT load. (used to work there)

Shit most of them weren't even connected at high voltage, they weren't any more major than a Wal Mart except that they were pickier about alternate feeds for uptime

What is the compute (in terms of Watt) per LLM user, and what is the compute in terms of being able to train current and next generation LLMs? Very unclear whether the size of the data centers is set by number of potential users, or its ability to train and run current and future models!

Let’s see how that plays out in Australia I guess

And compared the comics of a trans woman to an avowed nazi. And favored the nazi comics.

100% correct. Everybody that is surfing this bubble is still pushing the b.s. angle that AI is only a small driver of demand and that most is still cloud and other services. Which we all know to be horse s@#t.

A day without AI data centers is a day that I wouldn't notice any difference at all.

3) to try and find a match to a query. Millions of haystacks being sorted and re-sorted, then 100's of thousands of needles being passed among them... A grostesquely wasteful process that creates hallucinations, fake math, and bizarre images, which Sam Altman tries to sell us as "intelligence!"

If and when the bubble melts down, how much cost and effort is it to repurpose AI data centres for general normal and boring hosting and data workloads? Does anything beyond the building itself retain value if you wanted to convert these things to like basic Cloudflare-style webhosting?

we also have a day without data centers every time Apache or AWS messes up lol

Data canters is why you get AI generated sales calls wtf good is that?

Well, that's the industry's own fault for trying to disguise inference centres as data centres.

this is a complete non sequitur. how are you this stupid

It's the fact that they do so much in return for so little.

Days gone by, we made the computer faster, better, smaller, more efficient. The hyperscale data centre should be an abomination in the eyes of a true tech bod. An ugly kludge that represents surrender to "more" because "better" is just too much work.

i've seen this chucklefuck come up with the most dogshit takes so many times. i'm pretty sure they have me blocked on here. it's so funny that they just keep going

Also Amazon Web Services did have a large outage fairly recently and uh, yeah, it wasn't great but the world didn't fucking collapse or anything.

If they shut down only the data centers for AI, would anyone notice?

Wild for them to try to run defense for these things when we can literally see the effects of the xAi one in Memphis. People are on pace for the most severe health problems so that people can argue with and sext with Grok.

"services like online banking, social media and streaming would continue to function" Yes, please.

The days where I'm forced off the internet are my best ones tbh

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This is like Lionel Hutz imagining a world without lawyers

Up until AI, MS and AWS were making real gains in data center efficiency. Which makes total economic sense--it's one of your biggest expenses as a cloud providers. Then magic word guessers happened.

Function even better without the slop scams

This person needs to get basil out of their disgusting mouth