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Data center noise at Great Oak community outside Manassas, Virginia. (streamable.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 105 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Oh man, I hate data centers more every day. They're burning energy and causing disturbances in order to support fucking what? What the fuck are we getting in return?

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Slightly more convenient search engines. At least according to most of my IT-illiterate peers. "Just ask ChatGPT" - "Fuck, I can already do that with any other search engine, for 1/10th of the energy".

    People never see the cost if they don't pay it.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Not all data centers are for AI. Practically anything you do on the internet lives or transits through a data center. A very serious answer to your question is simply "the internet". AI data centers are just bigger and more dense than the ones that have been around for a long time.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Regular non-ai datacenters don’t have all this noise

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yes, but until AI, there weren't nearly as many data centers and they were much smaller. Now massive data centers are going up all over the country, and no, hosting the internet is not their primary purpose

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