Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.

The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals, and doled out multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers in recent months – some as high as $100m – to fast-track work on machines that could outthink humans on many tasks, a concept known as “super-intelligence” or “artificial general intelligence”.

Its first multi-gigawatt data center, dubbed Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, while another, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over the coming years, Zuckerberg said.

“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO said.

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[–] 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How's the Metaverse coming, Zuck? Remember how your company was going to dump tens of billions of dollars into developing that digital hellhole?

What a damp pube.

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    The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.

    Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I totally knew why that specific Dam was relevant, but for those lemmings that don't, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest power plant in the world.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Another comparison is that a "standard" US reactor will output 1GW of power at steady state.

    This data center would require 7000 nuclear reactors, just for it. The US current has 98 active reactors.

    We are a ways away.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.

    US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.

    Completely ridiculous.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Prometheus & Hyperion are apt names for the first AI datacenters to gain conscience and create a firm called Skylabs.

    By doing this they enable and spark up the Terminator ™ timeline.

    Zuck is such a tool.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Complete delusion. There's nowhere for them to build this kind of thing, no municipality with the infrastructure to support it, and the cost would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars just to APPROXIMATE building it. This is just more billionaire propaganda to normalize the technology and the data centers when they """tone it down"" to an actually realistically achievable scale.

    Bait used to be believable SMH my head.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Now I know what you're all thinking: But Zuck, will you have enough water and electricity to run this? Don't worry folks, we'll have plenty! ...You won't have any though. Sacrifices for my greater good are honorable and necessary! Be proud to be roadkill on my highway to even more obscene wealth that I absolutely in no universe deserve or need!"

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Build it in Hawaii, on top of your stupid bunker ya zarkin frood.

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    He's already there, he's your problem now. Do something about it!!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If i lived in Hawaii I would. I just don't want to see the US fuck the Hawaiian islands more than it already has.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Probably building in middle of desert to. Since the land is cheap. Data center that size how much water would it need? Not like us humans need that for drinking.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    "DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said Meta was investing aggressively in AI as the technology has already boosted its ad business by allowing it to sell more ads and at higher prices."

    All this to... Sell more ads.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i'm still waiting for metaverse

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a "virtual reality" that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an 'avatar' was.

    That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Fuck the Zuck, he sucks.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    He looks like Woody Allen.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Suck will fuck this up to. Also there isn’t enough generators available for all of these data centers. They are at least a decade out from full integration. It’s all bullshit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    As long as he pays for the hamsters food so they can power it, fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Who is going to sacrifice their water supply for that thing?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    guess hes another megalomaniac. so none of the billionaires would be marginally better than trump. ugh....

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know what? Do it. I want one of these guys to actually built one of these mega data centres. If we're going to ruin the environment anyway, we might as well encourage the billionaires to bankrupt themselves at the same time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Someone should stop this

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