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Interesting analogy. I've been pointing out the first synthesizer, built in 1897, which was so big that it took up the entire city block basement of a building. It worked, but it was so enormous that it was essentially useless. After a few decades of progress, the same instrument could be put into a suitcase, and carried around.
That how I see Data Centers. They are like that 1897 synthesizer - Sure, they work, but at what cost? They're huge, resource guzzling, pollution spewing monstrosities. Perhaps in a few decades, all those problems will be solved, and we can have data centers that aren't more destructive than productive.
Yeah, maybe some day they'll figure out how to shrink artificial intelligence down to something the size of, say, a human brain.