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
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    4 months ago

    Please stop using AI, please.

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

    I beg of you.

    • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months 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 tge people who said the internet is just a temporary fad.

      • excral@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months 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

        • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months 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.

        • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
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          4 months 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.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months 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, 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
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      4 months 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.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months 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.

    • untwistEmblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months 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?

    • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months 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
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        4 months 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).

      • blackbeans@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months 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.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

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

    Interesting.

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The products are addictive like gambling. That’s why they are loosing court cases now. People can’t stop even if they want to.

      • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        '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.

        • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          And I stopped smoking at 13. There are gamblers, drug users and others that can’t stop but if you aren’t in that situation it’s hard to understand how hard it is. Deleting the apps is a must like not having junk food in the house if you are trying to loose weight.

  • Petersson@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The following tornado is brought to you by your AI-enhanced human-induced climate crisis – Now also hitting your local AI-datacenters