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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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

it takes tens of thousands of gpus to run these massive llms for even a small subset of the users out there.

in order to run them for millions and eventually billions of people, they'll need thousands of data centers hosting tens of thousands of gpus.

it also takes a fair amount of hardware to train these models in the first place and to iterate on them and all that crap.

the good news is they won't be able to build these fast enough to avoid the bubble pop