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.”
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?
God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker
Yup, Tom’s is the last of the originals still running (HardOCP, anandtech and sharkyexteme are all gone), but it’s absolutely a garbage site now.
Does this somehow get around local building codes?
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Hmmmm
The following tornado is brought to you by your AI-enhanced human-induced climate crisis – Now also hitting your local AI-datacenters
Here’s an idea: cut all the RTO orders and retrofit all those useless offices into data centers. No one wants to live in the city or suburbs anyways.
Oh yeah… This feels like a super sustainable industry
/S
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.
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)
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.
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
Either way, I bet they are “cut-able” and have lots of expensive metals inside
They are self igniting :)
Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.
So, I hear there’s a bunch of unused office space due to work-from-home, is it really lacking that much power?
Yes… and the ability to deal with super densely packed rack weight.
Like seriously, they can’t use existing empty data center space because the floors aren’t built to deal with ones that tightly packed of equipment.
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their “x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece” dice
Don’t you remember the desert landscapes full of AI servers in the first Mad Max movie? If not, don’t worry you will see it in the remake next year.
I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.
Nah, that can’t be right. What would protect the powerful if there was no government?
Need to make it sound apocalyptic somehow to draw the clicks.
Dystopian
meta is basically a naked guy running through a field.
