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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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

"AI will replace MY WORKERS" has become a memetic virus that has infected a significant portion of the global capitalist class

Intellectually some of them understand if that were to happen universally, then capitalism would collapse since, you know, billions of people would have no money or wages

But the majority make the effort not to think about that too hard and instead believe if they individually get in on the ground floor of the data centers, then they can lock out other capitalists and only they will have their workers replaced, which gives them a competitive advantage

Of course every dipshit capitalist had the same idea and now they've crowded in at the door trying to build 1,001 data centers; as a result resources are stretched thin and maladjustedly allocated, as a result most of these data centers will be poorly constructed and will be empty in 20 years