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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[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

While I am loathe to speak fondly of AI, I did run into a very useful case the other day. It helped me fix my UPS.

Had to replace the battery, but the brand new one was also showing expired. I went back and forth with support for weeks, they ended up sending me a replacement battery. It too showed as expired. Support told me I would need to replace the unit.

So I popped the issue into Deepseek and it managed to find the exceedingly simple solution buried in a years-old forum thread. Apparently there's a configuration mode and I just had to change one value from 0 to 1 to indicate to the unit that the battery had been replaced.

Their own (outsourced) support department didn't even seem to know about this, but it saved me like $1000 having to buy a new UPS.