Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?
We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?
Homeless don't earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It's bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showin' up at those jobs.
— George Carlin
Maybe there needs to be a rebellion not against government but the real overlords…
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
And yet it only goes to very few people. When they don’t pay for basic preventative care, the more complicated issues grow in cost in such a way as to outweigh their “savings”.
The US is a country that believes that not paying your rent or replacing the batteries in the smoke detector is a fantastic way to save money. Joke country.
Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
Not very common. Those engines are 50 years old and are only powered up a few times per year to stabilize the power grid as they can quickly scale up and down in contrast to nuclear, wind and solar.
Most countries do not use them as they are only about 30% efficient and loud. A modern gas power plant can reach double that efficiency.
It's pretty common for natural gas electric plants to use Brayton cycle turbines, which is the same thermodynamic cycle that the turbojet engines on airplanes use. But you can optimize the designs on the ground for efficiency (and zero thrust) instead of thrust-to-weight.
It's also common to use "combined cycle" technology which mashes the Brayton cycle engine together with an older-style steam loop for extra efficiency.
After reading the article, I think they're just saying they installed some miniaturized natural gas plants. I don't think they're literally running aircraft engines on the ground.
There's at least one company that does tweak (iirc used) airliner turbofans by taking the fan part off so they just have the turbojet (which is already tuned to mostly generate rotational energy to drive the fan turbine rather than produce thrust itself) and use that to spin a generator. Obviously, it's a bit more complicated than that in reality, but there are quite a lot of old engines no longer certified for flight out of an abundance of caution but that still work fine, and a market for high-power generators that don't need to be the pinnacle of efficiency (originally as backups just for occasional use, and now because of AI companies caring only about speed and not about cost).
so much waste. why bother flying in your personal jet to burn the world down when you can just leave it idling on the ground?
I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?
Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won't even relocate them as it's more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their "x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece" dice
I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.
I guess calling it „Agriculture in Spain“ didn‘t have the same ring to it but believe me it‘s almost as dystopian.
Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.
Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
Has there been an environmental study in these makeshift camps? If these were homeless, we’d placate drug use, bulldoze them to vacate the camps. What. The. Fuck.
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.
I also am a qualified expert on what does and doesn't look like mad max, and I concur.
I've seen Mad Max and I'm going to disagree. This looks LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE MAD MAX to me and you can't diminish that, because it's entirely subjective. But also correct. The resemblance is uncanny.
10's of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people...
A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.
Does this somehow get around local building codes?
Please stop using AI, please.
If you're required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.
I beg of you.
I have been, by focusing on enabling team members to use it exactly like how leadership wants. You want them to use more AI? Okay… they need Agentic harnesses that can do work for them locally. They need MacBook Pros to run the models. They need cloud keys to test different frontier models for different loads. They need governance, observability, repeatability, scheduling, human-in-the-loop…
I’m going to show them that anyone can build a bridge, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely works. On top of that, I’m going to show them that they’re wrong in believing they want a bridge. All it should take is seeing that they got exactly what they wanted without getting anything that they wanted.
I've been cruising with the most expensive model at work for a while now. After github's pricing model change they finally asked us to be more conscious about which model we're using (which was hilarious after we were constantly asked to use more AI), but eh, it's easier to just leave it on Claude 4.8. I figure eventually the costs will catch up with the company.
It's not even necessary. It will come down on its own. Recent reportings in my company says we've increased our productivity by 10℅ while the number of defects rose by 40℅. And the cost increases with every month. It's unsustainable.
God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker
Please rain 🌧️🌧️ 🌧️
Meta hires enough veterans and enough of their employees are also in the Reserves and National Guard to explain to them exactly why they shouldn't do this.
All funded with Facebook and Instagram and a touch of glasses and oculus.
Things so easy to simply not use and even with this evidence of how shitty they are (nevermind the ability to shift politics) people won't quit.
We are all fucked.
The products are addictive like gambling. That’s why they are loosing court cases now. People can’t stop even if they want to.
'Eh, I stopped about 8yrs ago. Wasn't that hard. Highly recommended, btw.
All you have to do is make sure MFA is on, log off and never go back. Then delete the apps, of course.
And I stopped smoking at 13. There are gamblers, drug users and others that can’t stop but if you aren’t in that situation it’s hard to understand how hard it is. Deleting the apps is a must like not having junk food in the house if you are trying to loose weight.
OVH started putting up data centers made with wood and cheap materials in Europe. They had a major fire at one of them.
Half assed designs have their own issues.
Are these just industrial chicken coops?
You know, this kind of thing:

Might be the same structure, but Meta confirms they're doing exactly this:
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the strategy of pitching tents and filling them with AI servers last year. It seems that he wanted the infrastructure to come online quickly while demand for compute is increasing exponentially.
Say, uh... how many people are guarding that hardware?

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Edit: protip, lock your phone before putting it in your pocket.
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