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Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred
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And yet very few politicians are willing to stand up to big tech and say no.
Big tech pays them, that is all they care about. In general (there are very few exceptions) a politician’s only goal is to get elected. Everything else is secondary. Having loads of money helps getting elected.
You obviously haven’t understood how warm and welcoming bribe money is. Have you even tried? 😭
They’ve been playing ads around here claiming they don’t use water anymore. Hopefully no one believes it.
A zoomer coworker last year insisted to me that the water and energy usage stats were overblown.
I’m still baffled by that. Why the fuck would you simp for the AI bubble and big tech that hard..?
Because if Libz hate it, it must be good.
Really, it’s only as deep as that.
Dude was otherwise quite progressive, which is where my bafflement comes from. If he was a conservative chud, I would not be surprised.
Water could be overblown in some rare cases, if they have a well designed cooling system that doesn’t just evaporate all the potable water… But that’s way more expensive so none of them have that…
The water usage pales in comparison to the energy usage however…
Oh yeah, I know, but still it was a weird hill for him to pick to die on
Because they thought the Kool aid was tasty
Someone should tell the politicians of both parties that, because they are still bending over for big tech.
Yuuup. Government has completed decoupled from public preferences, particularly on the Democratic side.
Uh…what? Both teams equally decoupled. I take that back, Republicans more decoupled, but have better branding.
Republican Party loves catering to big tech just as much, if not more.
Republicans do some things their base wants. Democrats do zero things their base wants.
The right will flip as soon as they get the messaging that they’re supposed to. They now support child rape, so it’s hard to believe this will be their breaking point.
I think you underestimate how gullible people on our own side are as well, too.
The left basically encouraged and egged on child rape as liberatory in the 1970s and only stopped because public opinion didn’t go their way
Pure nonsense. “The left” as a whole did no such thing. You are mistaking some vocal individuals with an entire group of people.
The right as a whole didn’t do anything either. Entities don’t exist as wholes, rather as sporadic collections of people
No, no. The group I support is made up of brilliant individuals with strong ethics and morals, but any group I disagree with is a hive mind in which all behaviors of any member of those groups can reasonably be attributed to all of it’s members.
Lmao
They aren’t mistaking anything, they’re spreading scurrilous propaganda.
Yeah… it is a bit weird that in the last few decades large groups of both sides of American politics have tried to get folk on board with raping kids. That seems like a thing maybe we should question more.
When did anyone on the left try to “get folks on board with raping kids?”
Supply a source, or STFU.
Oh my God, you’re embarrassing. People discuss history and you freak the fuck out thinking your chosen political party is being insulted. Not sure if you’re genuinely a child or just someone who didn’t pay attention to anything in the world before the last 10 years.
You should take the time to actually read through the Epstein files for yourself. It’s not just Republicans named in there as abusers. It was first reported the FBI over 30 years ago. It’s not just a Republican administration that sat on it and didn’t do shit. It’s not just a Republican administration that was complicit.
Go do some reading for yourself. It will be good for you.
Did you memory hole the entire pedo advocacy movement of the 70s?
Gen Z/Alpha kids who think everything has always been like the last decade. Shits so bizarro world upside down we have entire generations that think walking on your head is normal.
WTF are you talking about? I was around back then, and no Democratic politicians were supporting “child rape” for any reason, that’s ludicrous.
You need to learn the difference between history and propaganda.
When did I mention politicians?
Yeah I remember encouraging child sex being a big thing for Carter… This is nonsense.
When did I mention American presidents?
It’s indicative of the lack of benefit that LLMs are providing. If gen AI was providing tangible benefits to anyone, people would identify a need for data centres.
I think it’s important to realize that a lot of these data centers aren’t just doing LLM for chat bots
I’m guessing a lot of Meta’s and xAI’s data centers are mostly training and running content recognition and recommendation models.
Just speculating, but like HUGE embedding and CLIP models for high resolution databases of all the trash on Instagram/X/tiktok/YouTube paired with large multimodal Recurrent Nueral Nets that look at user’s activity to recommend more content and ads