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[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 11 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

Yeah I'm gonna defend this

lmao what a clown. There's plenty of abandoned stores in every city and empty lots. You don't have to go tear up mother nature when we don't even use the land we already have.

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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

And people would have a fucking fit if they put a datacenter in the middle of their town.

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[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 1 point 3 months ago

The people out there aren't having a fit? Where's their silence?

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Things need space to be built, but all of those other things you mentioned have value. It's upsetting to cut down a shitload of trees for something that is going to be useless in 3 years when the AI bubble pops.

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[+] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] odelik@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People still have houses and mortgages after the mortgage bubble burst in 2007.

The internet, ecommerce, and .com's still exist after the dot com bubble burst in the early 2000s.

A bubble bursting doesn't mean that thing dies and goes away. It means that the hype for it goes away and the market normalizes/corrects suddenly.

There's a VC run and an attempt to force AI usage into things where it doesn't belong, or serves no purposes, or completely alienates the user base. There is going to be a correction for sure, and its not going to be pretty.

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[+] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I'm anticipating that mixed-use data centers will have enough capacity to meet post-pop demand. The current ubiquity of LLMs will end once people are forced to pay the true cost. I don't expect the technology to suddenly just vanish, but most people are not going to be willing to pay what it will cost to make inference profitable.

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago*

Solar panel farms actually work really well with rewilding projects. Not forests sure but if instead of where we grow fuel corn we instead dropped solar and rewild them for more power than the corn can provide plus biodiversity.

And as others said there's plenty of empty spaces already existing that most of what you list can use. There's two malls near me with half the shops or more empty, an abandoned hotel (though it was recently announced it would be converted into apartments so, ya know, proving my point) and a field bought by a hospital just being left as bare dirt (because they say they might need it some day).