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Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up (www.techspot.com)
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According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

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[–] 36 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Didn't forget draining all their drinking water. Violating everyone's copyright. Driving teens to suicide. Giving terrible medical advice. And Generating csam.

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  • [+] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Evaporative cooling. They're trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they're cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.

    The amount of heat generated is so large they can't properly cool it with a closed loop system.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system.

    Not the other things, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Except the ones feeling the hurt the most are the little guys

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Agreed.

    One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad.

    My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we'll have one good thing, whilst if we don't, we'll have nothing good at all.

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