• hansolo@lemmy.today
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        9 hours ago

        Fun fact: data centers existed and were incredibly important pieces of digital infrastructure long before LLMs were publicly available. You don’t even know what a data center does apparently.

        Nor do you realize that my comment isn’t about the virtues of data centers or what happens in them, but rather, having a massively under-informed opinion based largely on emotions. Hate for the sake of hate. That’s what MAGA people do. You’re really doing to double down and tell me that “oh, well, not me, I’m not like that” with a straight face?

        Downvote all you like, it doesn’t make your heart kind, or your mind work better.

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          We actually have very good reasons to be telling society destroying tech speculators to take their “but muh inovashions” “diruptions bro” and fuck off and die in a slit trench.

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            But you do realize that un-innovative, plain old data centers not for bots and AI are a thing, right?

            You literally can’t throw your opinion at me without them.

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                I think you meant to say that to the absolute anti-data center person, not me. I’m trying to explain that not all data centers are for LLMs and therefore killing the planet at hyperspeed.

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          Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.

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            I’m aware of that, but at some point it’s also like when the Ming Dynasty destroyed their naval fleet for political reasons. They still needed a normal navy for even local maritime trade. They killed it all and caused (in a reductive sense) a 200 year depression.

            We still need data centers for literally a million things that aren’t LLMs. And personally, I’m 100% on board to shoot that LLM shit into orbit. Get your solar from the source and fuck off.