But will it be a part of the Stargate project?

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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So none of that shit is gonna happen right? There can't be enough suckers to fund this thing. Softbank are known for being taken for a ride previously.

So I'm guessing this is a planned as in "Wouldn't that be neat" in the same way I have a planned dyson sphere.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Collect money, spend money on board meetings and committees. Have events at expensive locations. Lots of food and booze. Suddenly, no more budget. Gosh… we ran out of money?

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    natural gas

    Say methane. It's methane. It's the same methane that is like 20x as bad for the environment as gasoline.

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    [–] 47 points 7 months ago

    While the rest of the country is rapidly crumbling, at least we know some gigantic Corp is doing everything they can to hasten our demise for their profit

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    We’re continuing to accelerate climate change for this?

    Our descendants a thousand years into the future are going to look back on this time period with absolute disgust, knowing we sleepwalked into destroying the environment potentially for the remainder of our species’ existence - and we did it for the dumbest possible reasons.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I’m actually shocked you think humans will exist in a thousand years.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Call it… optimism? I don’t think we’re that easy to eradicate completely, though that future looks pretty bleak to me - for the small population that continues to exist in it..

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Piketon is radioactive and toxic to live near there due is longterm role preparing radioactive materials for profit. I wouldn't feel comfortable even driving through that town. I'm not sure if that makes it a good place for a datacenter or not.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I don't get it. $70-80 billion for an AI data center, plus continued investment for hardware upgrades - how are they planning on making money from this?

    I get that we're in a bubble but I've never seen this level of collective delusion/desperation before in the tech space.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're not.

    I want to be clear; they want to and expect to make money from this. But they have no plan for how to.

    Right now absolutely no one in the data centre industry can figure out the math for how to make a profit. But because everyone else is building data centres, they're all just assuming that someone else has figured it out and they don't want to miss the boat.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago
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    We really need to shut this shit down

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's gonna be weird when a lot of people switch to using local models....

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

    This is getting totally out of control.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Surly they have EMP protection, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    This Japanese corporation who appears to be harmless in comparison to other tech corporations with overtly hostile intentions...

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    My Frontpage on Lemmy is now currently telling me that we're on the brink of a terrible energy crisis due to the Iran war. And then this.

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  • Gee, I hope there isn't a major spike in energy prices next month...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I think companies are maybe preparing for the Compute as a Service thing, but I don't think it will work.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I believe williams is the LNG supplier and they will have this off the network of regular LNG. It will be on its own.

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    [–] 37 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    From the slow graveyard spiral that was so gentle we would never even notice when the future impacted with the fucking ground, to this:

    Pitching the nose down 90° and kicking on the afterburners as we blast "rock you like a hurricane" while we hurdle to our doom.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Softbank, the company known for good investments.

    Like WeWork.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why are we treating this insanity as if it'll ever actually get built? Softball doesn't currently have $5B it can commit to a monster like that, let alone $500B. This is pure hypemongering.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How much methane is that gonna burn?

    Isn't methane bad for the environment?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Can't wait for it to become AM

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