These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.

"Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation."

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[–] 192 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?

Interesting.

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

    Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you'd hopefully be long gone by then.

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  • [–] 115 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is

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  • [–] 78 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Uses jet engines for power?

    Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.

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

    This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    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).

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  • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?

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

    Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.

    Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.

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  • [–] 50 points 5 months ago

    Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof

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

    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

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    I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago

    Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago*

    Oh yeah... This feels like a super sustainable industry

    /S

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing

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

    The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don't even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Release the meth heads on that copper

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    10's of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people...

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    talk about soft targets.

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

    Does this somehow get around local building codes?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Please stop using AI, please.

    If you're required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.

    I beg of you.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Please rain 🌧️🌧️ 🌧️

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The products are addictive like gambling. That’s why they are loosing court cases now. People can’t stop even if they want to.

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

    '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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Are these just industrial chicken coops?

    You know, this kind of thing:

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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

    Say, uh... how many people are guarding that hardware?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    Like homeless camps but for servers.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    “Here he comes! Immortan Mark!”

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    m b c cz ::"cvs cc NVを、!。、、。を!、。、、、、!、!、、???

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

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