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 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i wanna blow up everything

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I mean, it's dumb, and it matters to some extent, but it doesn't matter to nearly the extent that the news, or the stock prices, say it does. Add together the handful of people still being crypto grifters, smart home enthusiasts, and VR gaming fans, to get the sum total result of the last several tech hype cycles, and get not enough to worry about.

People are gonna blame a lot of stuff on AI, but at the end of the day it's just bosses trying to overwork and underpay workers, with new rhetoric attached.