Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
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First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Hmmmm
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Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?
We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?
Homeless don't earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It's bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
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USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
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jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
Not very common. Those engines are 50 years old and are only powered up a few times per year to stabilize the power grid as they can quickly scale up and down in contrast to nuclear, wind and solar.
Most countries do not use them as they are only about 30% efficient and loud. A modern gas power plant can reach double that efficiency.
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Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
Has there been an environmental study in these makeshift camps? If these were homeless, we’d placate drug use, bulldoze them to vacate the camps. What. The. Fuck.
Please stop using AI, please.
If you're required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.
I beg of you.
I have been, by focusing on enabling team members to use it exactly like how leadership wants. You want them to use more AI? Okay… they need Agentic harnesses that can do work for them locally. They need MacBook Pros to run the models. They need cloud keys to test different frontier models for different loads. They need governance, observability, repeatability, scheduling, human-in-the-loop…
I’m going to show them that anyone can build a bridge, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely works. On top of that, I’m going to show them that they’re wrong in believing they want a bridge. All it should take is seeing that they got exactly what they wanted without getting anything that they wanted.
Pure wishful thinking like this is just as useful as thoughts and prayers.
This is a overhyped technology just like the internet was before the dotcom bubble popped.
The best you can hope for is for the AI bubble to burst and then see what AI is like when it normalises.
Because to think this technology will just go away is going to end the same way as for the people who said the internet is just a temporary fad.
When the dot com bubble bursted, the typical internet speed was 56k modem speed and cellular internet practically didn't exist. At that point the internet still needed years of exponential technological advancement to allow for stuff like streaming amd mobile services. The difference with the AI bubble is that they try to brute force their way out of infancy by throwing ludicrous amounts of money, energy and other recources at it instead of waiting for the much needed technological progress
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I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.
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Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
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Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
Because he stole every idea and did so by stepping on many many toes.
Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their "x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece" dice
I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.
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Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.
10's of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people...
By relying on most people being law abiding citizens who only act like badass rebels online.
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Oh yeah... This feels like a super sustainable industry
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The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don't even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.
Release the meth heads on that copper
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A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.
Are these just industrial chicken coops?
You know, this kind of thing:
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Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW
talk about soft targets.
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