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.”
Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.
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Edit: protip, lock your phone before putting it in your pocket.
Say, uh… how many people are guarding that hardware?
These fitted with machine guns bet you anything
Looking forward to the domestic attacks on these.
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Hmmmm
Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe
I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you’d hopefully be long gone by then.
That amount of millions can feed the crackheads for generations.
Gamers need to start paying bounties for found GTX or DDR5 sticks.
Gods I could do a lot with just like two of those machines.
Yes ricko ,kaboum
don’t let crackheads know about it
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?
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.
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
Maybe there needs to be a rebellion not against government but the real overlords…
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
And yet it only goes to very few people. When they don’t pay for basic preventative care, the more complicated issues grow in cost in such a way as to outweigh their “savings”.
The US is a country that believes that not paying your rent or replacing the batteries in the smoke detector is a fantastic way to save money. Joke country.
Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is
It proves having socialised healthcare would be more cost effective. But shareholders.
The real joke of capitalism is that cost-effectiveness undercuts the whole system.
In relation to what?
I really love this.
Extra bonus because quote is from Gandhi
He is history’s most violent monster, after all
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it’s one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
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.
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.
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).
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?
Idling? What makes you think that these things won’t be running at full blast 24/7?
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
They are self igniting :)
Either way, I bet they are “cut-able” and have lots of expensive metals inside
Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
Because he stole every idea and did so by stepping on many many toes.
jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won’t even relocate them as it’s more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their “x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece” dice
I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.
Nah, that can’t be right. What would protect the powerful if there was no government?
Weapons
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Need to make it sound apocalyptic somehow to draw the clicks.
Dystopian
meta is basically a naked guy running through a field.
I guess calling it „Agriculture in Spain“ didn‘t have the same ring to it but believe me it‘s almost as dystopian.
Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.
