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So, what are the new datacenters even for? (awful.systems)

submitted 5 days ago by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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As I was using LLMs at work (I never use LLMs for personal projects), a question occurred to me:

What in the fuck are these new data centers supposed to actually do?

The enterprise users are all in on having LLMs write 300% of the code. And yet, both OpenAI and Anthropic are still giving these "$200 gets you $10 000 in API costs" subscriptions to every victim of AI psychosis.

Why do we have RAM, hard disk, SSD, GPU and CPU shortages and no "token shortage"?

I mean, we all know the answer, these are the offerings for the robot god, but like how in the fuck are they still obtaining loans for this shit?

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[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

My personal conspiracy theory is the AI companies are being used as a front for a new Manhattan Project for the surveillance dragnet. All those flock camera feeds gotta go somewhere. Imagine being able to look up who, what, where, and when (and infer why) for any person or place in the US, linking online interaction to physical places in near-real time.

Here's who it's being built for.

ETA: What I see happening over the next decade, the AI bubble 'pops,' government quietly absorbs the (by then) mostly complete facilities and hardware as part of the bailout, then news outlets go silent about data centers and ICE activity while we fall deeper into a fascist hellpit.

Imagine Hitler's reign, but this time there will be no Anne Frank's.

[–] basic_user@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you're right. There is this constant need for governments and the elite in general to keep tabs on the population. They need to detect dissidents that arranges protests, generate push back, are whistleblowers and just people who are somehow a threat to their power structures. Our online activities through phones and computers are presumably already surveilled and is used to profile us. Your LG tv is listening to everything you say by the way and I'm sure they are not alone. That combined with camera footage of physical activity/presence just fortifies their hold on the population further.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

specially any progressive movement needs to outmunevered and quashed before it gets too large. both the DINOs and gop do not want a united front of voters against them.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago

The dinosaurs are back and are out to get us? fuck, I thought things were bad enough

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