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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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I think it's pretty obvious there are at least some valid uses for it, like even if it just does simple customer service stuff (before escalating to an actual person) I'm sure it'd save a lot of labor and also people actually being abused by mad hogs

but a lot of the "uses for it" it's also pretty obvious (to me, a total expert who definitely is not a layman when it comes to computers) were also solved forever ago and without token nonsense. Like my only interaction with the Spotify AI stuff so far has been to try to make playlists where it doesn't play songs I've heard before. But I am almost 100% certain "make a playlist with only new plays" was something we could have done with one one millionth the energy in like, 1990