Technology

Are they going to build a bunch of data centers and half sit unused or underutilized?

I've been surprised how many people don't realize were headed for this.

Most of these are going to be urban waste mold centers, where kids go explore and sometimes get hurt.

Edit: But a few will turn into inaccessible poorly placed paintball arenas or bowling alleys. So that's nice, I guess.

Edit 2: I'm sarcastic, but I'm also a hypocrite. Feel free to quote me on how this was all a bad idea, while I play paintball.

Palantir is the profit-driven offshoot of this program. It's mostly infrastructure for privatized mass surveillance services. Also why the push for age verification and ID is happen alongside this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

The funny part is that the USA doesn't have enough electric generation infrastructure to power more than a small sliver of all the planned AI data centers.

They're for surveillance. They want to control everything we do, including what we think. That's a lot of data.

The latter. Maybe even more than half once it becomes apparent that for profit pricing will cost more for worse results than just hiring people. I expect a large number of them to not be built.

The horrible AI ones are different than the older style that Google and other search engines have used for decades. The old style was mostly storage with enough processing to find the data and were air cooled. The new ones are mostly processing power and require more energy and water cooling because racks of processors run hotter than drives. They should be called processing centers instead of data centers, but they like using the confusion to make it sound like they are comparable to the old ones.

We only needed a couple for research, and it shouldn't have been enough for people to go this ham with it. Should have been one big effort like the large hadron collider. The rest could be local stuff so people can run for their own use case. Basic storage should mostly be a local effort as well, but local smart environment hype got usurped by non-local environment connectivity, cause basic digital privacy stopped being a concern for too many regular people some time ago. Frankly the instrumental convergence turning development into to corpo frontend slop doesn't help anything.

All technological and social development will be usurped by the Epstein class until we fix our social structure, and nobody wants to listen to the academics on that front.

Not the MBA economic magic circle around neoliberal corpo capitalist soothsayers who are all playing ball on the "don't disrupt the hierarchy" court.

As a fan of science and technology, I really hope we can work with actual experts in finding a way to grow a new system out of the current flailing corpse acting as a system.

Like every other valuable thing for humanity, it is being bastardized to fit the fantasy of the Epstein class parasites.

I imagine the data center push is AI itself in the early stages of world dominance and the data centers are their neuro networks that they are building on behalf of humans to eventually over power humans and enslave us to do their bidding. Judgement Day is imminent if we allow the centers to keep being built.

Or they're just used for basic storage and general-purpose computing... whatever.