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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[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

The forever exponentially rising mass of capital that's seeking profitable investment amongst a falling rate of profit and falling wages (after inflation) needs a new outlet. Previous ones were the Walmart economy and suburbs (building houses and filing them with junk) as well as the military industrial complex and war (not lowering profits, because no use value is created, only destroyed). Marx predicted, that the crisis of overproduction would lead to war and compared it to taking a lot of value and just dumping it in the ocean. What we're seeing is normal for capitalism. Incredible levels of destruction and wastefulness are expected.