Comparing ai datacenter backlash to masking backlash during covid is insane.

If anything, being pro-mask is being anti-ai. Its just fucking logical.

Or, you know, the more likely approach is datacenters just make everyones lives worse in multiple unique ways. Maybe they dont want that if its a willing choice, unlike a pandemic.

Let’s just fix that headline to make it a bit more accurate:

AI backlash threatens make-believe trillion-dollar data centre boom before they have a chance to cash out, say tech leaders

Shut up booster.

Meanwhile, back in reality, it's AI's shitty unit economics doing this. A ton of laws have also been broken trying to build these data centers as fast as possible.

Their comments aren't self-awareness or introspection. Its just a knee jerk reaction to things not going in their favor.

Data center boom Data center bubble

Oh my god, not the data centers!

Yes. Yes it does.

... Then maybe goy shouldn't have invested trillions in that

Also, fuck you. You made me jobless, I have no empathy for any of you

Trillion dollars of their money. Not ours. We never wanted this shit. They wanted this shit in order to surveil us and make billions more.

“The reason is not that people are Luddites . . . it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid. It has become a political symbol,” ~ Vik Bajaj, co-chief executive of the Jeff Bezos-backed AI start-up Prometheus.

Fuck off Vik, take bezos with you.

GOOD.

Boo fucking hoo.

it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid

'ai' is not the masks in this scenario, it is the fucking virus.

Threatening the data center boom is the whole point of the backlash.

Think of all that sweet sweet pennies on the dollar ram/GPU/sad/hdd that can flood the 2nd hand market

They'll at least make something back

Time to deflate this imaginary bubble.

We'll know the bubble is over when we can get $3/GB DRAM again. Until then we're still under it.

am i completely crazy or does the data center obsession only make sense if these companies are operating under the assumption that they'll be used for cyberwarfare?

like the economics fully do not make sense unless you assume you'll have a blank check for maximum utilization in the near future and the only money faucet big enough to meet that demand is in the defense budget. it explains the outright hostility to residents, the secrecy, and the maximalism of it all. but it doesn't seem to be part of the conversation. why?

I read the whole thing, and all I got was "oh shit, we might be fucked because of the non-billionaires, let's start making them believe we care about them“.

Yeah, AI backlash threatens us with a good time!

They realized the people still have the ultimate power and they can't just pretend that we don't exist

Tbh it should threaten more than just data centers iykwim.

Only boom I understand is 💥

Threaten data center boom? I think the title means threaten me with a good time.

Good.

Cool. Tell the tech leaders that I say “suck my dick”

Yes that's the goal

Seems to be good-news-friday

This sounds like a win for homeowners power bills…infinite growth projections for these projects was ludicrous levels of stupidity.

I hope that this means thoughtful conversations about how much AI compute infrastructure is actually useful given realistic demand curves, where it should be located, what resources will it require, and, importantly, how the companies that benefit from it will directly share those benefits, as compared to hazy gestures towards "economic development".

I fear that this is just the industry telling us they're about to start lying even more than they have.

"Won't somebody think of the poor billionaires?!"

Maybe this was simply too much, too fast, with insufficient demonstrable value.

But the NDAs, backroom deals, hoarding, shell games with debt, blatant illegal activity and disregard for environmental laws and just all the fucking shenanigans have to come to a head. Of course this was going to get hit with backlash!

If all these companies weren’t treating this as a selfish land grab maybe everyone wouldn’t hate them.

I mean, these tech CEOs went to college graduation ceremonies and said "None of you will be getting jobs, lol" and went on TV and said "AI will destroy humanity" and then ramped their data center expansion so rapidly that peoples electric bill went up by 300% and when the public hates them and their technology and votes accordingly they are "What happened? How can people be so short-sighted? Why is this so political?"

I dunno, fuckheads, maybe move fast and break things isn't a popular strategy when applied to society.

"The fact that my business model doesn't work is an unfair threat to my business model!"

Good.

This shit wouldn't have happened if we sent all the Web3 guys to the bottom of the ocean.

The current AI craze is a fraud that's pushed by the "tech leaders".
So hungry for money they build "empty" datacenters just to rent them out at a later date to an unknown customer...
Meanwhile the big names are giving each other their money and hardware in some perverse rotation scheme and call it profits.

They're all so glued to it that they urgently need to prevent the bubble bursting lest they destroy all their riches.

Think about poor defenseless data centers!

And once again, all tech leaders give a shit about his money. They're willing to destroy the planet, eat up all the energy, pollute all the water, it doesn't matter, as long as they can make their fucking money.

It's not the danger that pisses me off. That's manageable with good regulation and enforcement. It's their insistence that I have to embrace this technology or else forgo the technologies and services that I regularly use that I object to!

Google used to be awesome. Now search is a garbage fire that barely works. Texting on my phone used to predict typed words based on my frequently used words, now it offers words that I almost never use! I can't even use Google Assistant any longer without signing up for Gemini.

Nvidia used to sell graphics card to consumers and those cards were affordable. Now even ten year old refurbished cards are getting more expensive and harder to find.

Most other tech companies suck in much the same way. Used to be great (or at least pretty good)... Went all-in on AI... Now it sucks giant donkey balls AND the product or service is more expensive than ever! Fuck me right?!

The capabilities of AI are indeed impressive, but not everyone needs it and most people like me don't want it. And I, for one, am absolutely not willing to pay for any AI services period!

And let's not forget the environmental disaster the data centers have turned out to be!

I hope the entire AI industry dies in a fire!

We went from 0 data centers to 3 under construction in the last couple years. I hope they abandon the projects and let wildlife have the land back.

A trillion dollars for who, to achieve what? For the rich, to enrich themselves.

i throw money why no works ? ? ?

Oh no…

Anyway, how’s this Friday going for everyone?

Fuck 'em.

ooohhh nooooo....

the tragedy

No one wants your AI running in jet powered freshwater-sucking data centers when you can run open models on the equivalent of a few incandescent bulbs.

Not to mention it makes no sense to trust these corporations that stole all the training data to keep your intellectual property safe and out of their future models.

None of it makes sense.

The half finished, already in debt AI centers, offering services that the public is widely unwilling to pay for?

imagine if we put this much into the power grid. Might have cheap electricity instead of centralized AI.

Yep