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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[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you look at the listings for data centre locations on places like datacentres.com for the big tech companies (Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc), two trends jump out.

The majority of these data centres globally are in the US.
The bulk of those data centres in the US are in Virginia, usually not far from the Pentagon.

It’s all about asking ChatGPT where to bomb next.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

A question answered by point 2. of your comment