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

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.”

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Please stop using AI, please.

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

    I beg of you.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      2 days 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.

    • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Pure wishful thinking like this is just as useful as thoughts and prayers.

      This is a overhyped technology just like the internet was before the dotcom bubble popped.

      The best you can hope for is for the AI bubble to burst and then see what AI is like when it normalises.

      Because to think this technology will just go away is going to end the same way as for the people who said the internet is just a temporary fad.

      • excral@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        When the dot com bubble bursted, the typical internet speed was 56k modem speed and cellular internet practically didn’t exist. At that point the internet still needed years of exponential technological advancement to allow for stuff like streaming amd mobile services. The difference with the AI bubble is that they try to brute force their way out of infancy by throwing ludicrous amounts of money, energy and other recources at it instead of waiting for the much needed technological progress

        • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          While everyone had 56k modems, they laid millions of miles of finer optic cable. That sounds like brute forcing to me. Most of it laid there dark for 20 years.

        • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Then 9/11 happened and suddenly we have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth competed with infrared before it dominated. Bluetooth’s wlan not getting good is still sad to me.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • ThyTTY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days 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.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    199·
    3 days ago

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

    Interesting.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

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

  • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
    120·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Thales@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 days 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

      • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Maybe there needs to be a rebellion not against government but the real overlords…

      • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days 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.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    53·
    3 days ago

    jet engines

    AI

    How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁

    • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I also am a qualified expert on what does and doesn’t look like mad max, and I concur.

  • gnufuu@infosec.pubEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

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

  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

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

  • heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
    27·
    3 days 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.

      • blackbeans@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        3 days 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.

    • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days 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).

    • untwistEmblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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?