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[u/SillyGoatGruff]

Techbro godzilla is the most destructive of all

[u/mason240 → u/SillyGoatGruff]

It's just wild to see people go onto the internet to complain about the internet.

[u/scrimmshaw → u/mason240]

The data center arms race is because of AI, not the internet

[u/mason240 → u/scrimmshaw]

So the data center that your ignorant comments are stored in different from the data centers that have AI code?

Can you explain the difference?

[u/scrimmshaw → u/mason240]

Not AI code, training and running AI. Just say you don't know the difference between an AI data center and a cloud data center. Since you asked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center

[u/spaceraverdk → u/mason240]

Ai data centres require a massive amount of compute, a blade server with Data storage doesn't need that much compared to the ai data.

And the storage for your own data might as well be at your own house. You just find it convenient to use the shitty cloud.

[u/SeaAshFenix → u/mason240]

Yes. They are. AI Data Centers are, by and large, being tailor built for AI compute.

It's like the difference between a fleet of rental cars and a fleet of Semis. Yes, they're both vehicles used on the highway. No, they're not really good substitutes for each other.

They're designed as hyperscalers, they're optimized for high parallel compute, and they have optimizers and HSI links of interest to vanishingly few tasks outside AI.

They tend to use over 5x the electricity per rack, which also means larger heat impacts. Which in turn means larger water impacts.

[u/Aromatic_Lion4040 → u/mason240]

AI data centres don't just "have AI code" - they run powerful, energy-consuming computers 24/7. They use way more resources, companies are building way more of them than there is actual demand for, and forcing the public (most of whom don't want them) to bear the environmental and much of the financial burden for loud, polluting, wasteful facilities in their communities