Badabinski comments on Before and after data centers

Before and after data centers (discuss.online)

submitted 3 months ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Original comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1uyyywv/comment/oy3cgd7/

Trees vs. Data Centers

Photo 1: Memphis, TN (top)

Photo 2: Sandston, VA

Photo 3: Abilene, Texas

Photo 4: New Albany, OH

Photo 5: Fayetteville, GA

[–] 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.