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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible (futurism.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fair enough, I didn’t realise they were so different from traditional DC’s.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    They're not servers. It's just gpus. It's not really a data center, basically the same as bitcoin mining.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    They're still servers, the focus is on the GPU side though. A single DGX B300 has 8 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2 Xeon 6776P CPUs. And networking, RAM, storage. Consumes 14 kilowatts and looks like this

    You COULD host a website on one if you wanted to. You'd be stupid to do it, but you could.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    They shouldn't be. One of the issue the sheer size and volume, they're being built based only on speculation not actual need (all the ssd/ram/gpu are sitting in warehouses waiting for these DC to be built — if they're fabricated at all). They're also being built where it's cheap, not where they would be needed (industrial and urban areas) just to save money, externalize costs, and avoid regulations.

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