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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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bubble is gonna pop and they will all be conveniently repurposed into surveillance infrastructure.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Before 2020 they already dual-purposed as surveillance infrastructure, it's just a matter of quantity/scale.

Ironically, they may end up with so much generated data that it becomes harder to respond to threats that the machine learning model doesn't account for.