• Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Honestly that doesn’t really need a datacenter, a single solar panel and a low power computer or couple of PIs.

    I think the scale of these AI datacenter build out is part of the problem, that level of compute is really only useful for AI and Ai-adjacent loads like mass surveillance!

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      3 hours ago

      isnt thats what PALANTIR is been trying to peddle to trump, its quite odd, more of a conicidenc we started hearing more and more about palantir since last year, when most people dint even notice it existed.

    • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net
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      I guess it depends on how much equipment is needed before something becomes a “datacenter”. I don’t really see a community hub being a massive supercomputer, maybe a small office or a room in a local library. I’d argue that a single server could be called a datacenter if it centralizes data, but I don’t think that is the common understanding of the word. Maybe the word needs to be reclaimed.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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        literally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you’d just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.

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          Well…

          A data center is… A data center. So a central plave for data.

          It isn’t called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop.

          So - if the place is… a central place for the town people’s data (as in OC’s cases)…

          Wouldn’t “Data Center” be a fitting name?