Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
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Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#2This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#3Technology is getting too in tents for me. /former boy scout
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#4A desperate bid to get around data center bans: disguise them as homeless encampments
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#5This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
Yeah but the public is against progress. The public cries for material needs like medicare for all, universal childcare, a jobs program? These are all clearly foreign actors that want to prevent American progress on AI! They must be Chinese agents for all we know, what sort of American wants to provide healthcare for their family over proudly paying higher utility rates to ensure a new batch of tech bros become billionaires?
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#6This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
You don't move up the Cyberdyne Systems org chart by caring what the stupid little meatbags think.
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#7This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
The public hates ai but also uses ai in mass quantities.
Capitalism abides by your dollars not your voice.
So people can decry ai all they want but if they keep using it, it won't go away.
Even then it's probable that AI is a big enough productivity boost for certain industries that even if no consumers used AI, businesses would still prop AI up enough for it to live on.
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#8A desperate bid to get around data center bans: disguise them as homeless encampments
The real unlock, the homeless can shelter for warm next to the gpus, and they can recruit some for some fent if they need workers.
Heck, call it public housing and bringing jobs into the community.
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#9"All this inference will be lost in time, like GPUs in rain."
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#10Meta's first five buildings took between two and three years to build, but Williams is almost done building out 200 MW (additional) off-grid power plants in a year, and to match that they're putting their equipment in tents. That raises questions for me:
* Did they expect the next five buildings to also take between two and three years to build if done in the same manner? I'd hope it'd be significantly faster the second time because they've perfected the design, found good local contractors and suppliers, etc.
* How much of the time was the actual structure vs. all the stuff inside they still have to do with the tents?
* How long are they expecting to keep this? Are they anticipating extra problems like leaking roofs?
* What are the "off-grid power plants"? Is this basically a whole bunch of diesel or natural gas generators? [edit: oh, yes, "The site is also powered by 200 megawatts of modular gas turbines". I wonder if they're trucking in the fuel too.] If so, yuck.