driftwood comments on Support Your Local Data Centre

[–] driftwood@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 days ago (6 children)

What about data centers that make the internet work?.. Would you rather not be able to post this?

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

Yes actually. The internet should become more decentralized. Ultimately it would all be run from homes, or distributed over many devices.

This would avoid many of the effects of big tech centralizing so many things like AWS or google services going down. DNS problems, or Cloudflare.

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[–] driftwood@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

While we’re dreaming I feel like internet infrastructure should be nationalized like other utilities also should be…

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[–] degen@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was thinking, imagine if we used all the data centers for literally anything other than AI

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[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Isn't that what we have been doing with most data centers for the last few decades?

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[–] driftwood@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Great idea 💡

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah we need to start making the distinction between traditional data centers and these new AI spreading data centers.

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