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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[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's the rate of profit. Hogs have to invest in something even if there is no return, there may be, the line says it's data centers. Economically the goal is for the big hogs to cannibalize the smaller ones, leave them holding worthless stock once it becomes apparent that there was no profit to be made on those investments.