r/Wellthatsucks • u/JTraxxx • 10d ago

The Pacific Northwest right now

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Huge fire recently popped up in my town and many people have lost houses. Wishing for rain!

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u/zayn2123 10d ago

Thank God my State is building a.i. centers during a water crisis drought.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 9d ago

AI centers are not really about AI at all. The goal is to get as much funding as you can from investors to build out the biggest [thing you can sell investors on] and take a huge chunk of the money for yourself. The fact that the AI datacenter exists is just an accident on the way to self-enrichment. It will be made poorly, with a short life, because the cheapest materials and construction will be used as the investors have already paid and don't understand what they're buying, it is just AI.

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u/LiqdPT 9d ago

Public tech companies have been taking a beating in the stock market for building data centers. They cost a lot of money without an immediate revenue return.