/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

That's way too many data centers. Having 10 in a small city would already be weird.

I don't think even the average computer enthusiast really appreciates how fast a modern computer is. A top of the line personal computer would be considered a supercomputer in the 90's, like the ones used for rendering CGI for Jurassic Park, or performing nuclear simulations.

And they need that many of them? To brute force solutions to problems that probably aren't socially applicable, and only work 95% of the time at best?

Clearly there is something wrong here, and there is an incredible waste of resources.

Like after all that, can they even make a robot that will do my dishes? Even with a dish washing machine? I have yet to see that. They couldn't get self-driving cars to work after decades, so I think we're finally seeing this AI shit peak.

And you know what, I'm glad, because at first this AI stuff seemed like it would really might get to human levels of intelligence. I'm happy it's really just a toy.

And maybe I should be happy in the short term that this is where they're putting surplus value - into making computer chips that turn electricity into heat, instead of more weapons and war or something worse.

>In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production.

>>492068
This is going to be a disaster, Singapore and Dubai are apparently going all in on AI as well

Northern Virginia is the hub of the bourgeois in America. It contains both the wealthiest and most powerful people. But it isn't a community in any sense of the word, nor are sub-areas.

They could build picket fences over every parcel and nothing would change. Datacenters, unless they make noise bother few.

People are very isolated and everything in public has a price. The mental health of the state and even its economy is in freefall.

Also nothing is going to slow down AI and neo-Ludditism is cringe, especially when made on internet devices and articulated by developers who are just worried about their jobs.

>>494779
Only thing I disagree with is:
>nothing is going to slow down AI
AI has already peaked. We haven't seen any giant leaps forward from gpt4, so it's slowing down by virtue of the technology reaching it's limits. It's wrong to expect AGI at this rate, rather we will see incremental improvements with diminishing returns.

Economically, the booj are going to ride this bubble until it pops, but then America will truly have nothing left.

Do Iran's missiles have the range to hit Virginia?
If they take out data centers that would be a big W

>>494780
this is kinda like the "internet bubble" did companies over-leverage and make too many businesses at that exact moment? sure.

But the internet itself wasn't a bubble it was just getting started, now we've far exceeded the amount of internet businesses seen during the gold rush phase of the internet, by multiples.

> We haven't seen any giant leaps forward from gpt4

Turns out you can pick the worst performing AI company and say anything you want. But 3 years ago people were saying the big LLM models couldn't do basic math (and many couldn't often), now every other cognitive-task oriented professional is using them to do their jobs for them because they've gotten so much more intelligent.