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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."

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 187 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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

Interesting.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

[–] notalannister@fedinsfw.app 45 points 4 days ago

Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs

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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 110 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.zone 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 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

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 90 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Extra bonus because quote is from Gandhi

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.zip 13 points 3 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.org 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.org 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 49 points 4 days ago

jet engines

AI

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

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 46 points 4 days ago

Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Uses jet engines for power?

Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 28 points 4 days ago

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

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

They are self igniting :)

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

By relying on most people being law abiding citizens who only act like badass rebels online.

[–] WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

right like hardware is extremely vulnerable to fires lmao

[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

its a good thing there isnt a cost of living crisis or people might think all that copper was valuble

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.

Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof

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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (6 children)
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

They rolled poorly on their "x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece" dice

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh yeah... This feels like a super sustainable industry

/S

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Are these just industrial chicken coops?

You know, this kind of thing:

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Release the meth heads on that copper

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Say, uh... how many people are guarding that hardware?

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

These fitted with machine guns bet you anything

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Like homeless camps but for servers.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago

A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does this somehow get around local building codes?

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[–] newton@feddit.online 9 points 4 days ago

Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago

talk about soft targets.

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