I don't get it, why do we need so fucking many? Reading the thread about temps downwind from data centers and it's describing all the multiple HUGE data centers just around phoenix and it's just, like, why are they building so fucking many???

It's one thing to be like "yeah we're building a facility that uses more power than human civilization to power the Lying Machine" but it's like they're building fucking thousands of them. What the fuck is that?

Let's be incredibly generous and assume The Nerds invent intelligence, even then what is the fucking point of all this shit

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reductively, it's a simple math problem. Nvidia sold something like 10GW of GPUs in the last 3 years. That means people spent money on them. They spent money on them expecting to make money by using them. To use them, they need to be in data centers. By some estimates, the industry has only added 1GW of data center capacity in the past 3 years. So they need to keep building to house the hardware they bought to make money from the hardware they already paid for.

[–] Milksteaks@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Less of an ouroboros, more of a human centipede