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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

www.tomshardware.com

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Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

www.tomshardware.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago
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These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.
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    https://archive.fo/78uV5

    So another reason we’re harassing Iran?

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    Many rural communities pushed back on wind power due to noise. Can’t imagine living near an always on jet engine

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    US citizens need to relearn the lost art of building trebuchets from locally available material.

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    Meta’s turbines would be a permanent feature on the Ohio site, as it’s designed to run independently of the power grid. […] Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation.

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      $10k racing bike with a $9 lock

      free-real-estate illegal-to-say

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    unrelated but I saw a video where a guy used a slingshot to lob an incendiary almost 300 meters

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      Link or lib

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      Can you send it to me for science

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    Free servers. Bring your own forklift.

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    Their rotten stinky makeshift homes.

    Our noble and warming data tent cities.

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    GPUs love sand

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      They are silicon

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        ashes to ashes and sand to sand

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    AI Hoovervilles

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      concentrated AI feeding operation

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    Melting spoons in backyard furnaces to produce more steel than ever before.

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    this is truly such a stupid fucking bubble. I also hate Mark Zuckerberg so fucking much.

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    Ready for the news of a strong gust of wind absolutely suffocating and destroying the servers

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    It will be funny once they need to make real money off their datacenter investment and they will be uncompetitive because jet engines are less efficient than real gas turbines. But I guess it is OK if literally everyone else is also doing the same thing.

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      They don’t have to ever be competitive. They just have to have enough of the market to get part of the inevitable bailout. The bailout is going to be required for the companies that actually are the internet, like Microsoft, Amazon and Google. The others just have to make themselves seem like vital infrastructure. The more of the backbone of govt AI that they are providing, the more likely they’ll get bailed out too

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    comrade downpour do your thing!

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      Comrade tornado go gettem 🌪️ porky-scared

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