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AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

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Re: AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

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Post by sinfulprogeny »

RetroTechie wrote: post #16

Datacenters are being built for AI. What happens when you remove the AI workload? Don't get me wrong. I don't mind when some tech bros burn billions of venture capital & nothing much (?) comes out of it. But those datacenters embody a lot of resources. Raw materials, complex/resource heavy manufacturing processes for IC's, servers, networking gear, etc etc. I sure hope that doesn't go to waste when the AI bubble pops…

Well there's always predictive policing, fully automated facial recognition, chat control surveillance systems, nation-scale fingerprinting, and location tracking via inference of arbitrary signals.

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Post by ptx »

arnitdo wrote: post #4

The whole website is genuinely unreadable / illegible with poor contrast.

And the text appears to fade in on scroll, so you see literally nothing while scrolling down. Wonderful UX. It's like deliberately reintroducing a worse version of the checkerboard pattern the original iPhone used to display when the CPU couldn't handle the page rendering in time.

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Post by gman83 »

jbaiter wrote: post #15
zarzavat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the third time I've seen a website with this styling (serif, yellow and white on black). What's going on? Is it a template or some AI induced convergence?

I think it's Claude, yeah.

If I had to guess they used this skill https://impeccable.style

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Post by DeathArrow »

>This allows us to flatten the physical datacenter into a GPU-free, non-blocking, 1-tier full mesh architecture built around high-density CPU nodes and 51.2Tb silicon switching fabric.

I wonder how many CPUs will be required to do the job of one Nvidia H200 GPU.

Re: AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

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Post by embedding-shape »

zknill wrote: post #18
zarzavat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the third time I've seen a website with this styling (serif, yellow and white on black). What's going on? Is it a template or some AI induced convergence?

Yeah, with only minimal guidance it's what you get out of claude. The colours and layout are pretty 'default'.

So, I do understand people using LLMs to do websites, they want to communicate some idea, and "typing HTML" isn't part of that, fine, use the LLM to slop it together, whatever.

But don't people review these things before they make it public? The website is borderline unreadable, how does this happen? Am I wrong for assuming people generate a website, review it and then deploy it? Do they only review the source, generate a website, asks Claude to review it, Claude says "Looks good" and the author just goes with it?

I'm struggling to understand why so many of the websites are so unreadable, when it's so easy to spot and fix these issues, it's like people are lazymaxxing nowadays, and not even in the fun "I'm a good developer because I'm lazy", just people being lazy-lazy.

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