• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    You’ve misunderstood. AI datacenters are not the highway. Prompts and Outputs are the cars and trucks, the AI data centers are the factories making the cars. The highway is datacenters and transmission media that do not house AI and do not require the immense cooling or power that the AI datacenters use. The highway and the things on the highway are two entirely decoupled things.

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      4 hours ago

      human transportation in the abstract is the internet

      data is people

      data packets / rates (related tech) are the various vehicle types

      there was a time of no highways, what need do horse drawn carriages have for paved asphalt?

      highways are a direct though not immediate consequence of American car and civic planning policy

      if instead we had focused on mixed use walkable cities with connected mass transit instead of urban sprawl highways would be much reduced if not gone, just look at existing examples in eu etc

      so yes American cars and every nuance that implies in our current American reality are fucking highways

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        3 hours ago

        Incorrect. Let me help you out here:

        Human transportation in the abstract is computer networking in the abstract.

        The highway is the internet, the current physical implementation of the computer networking transportation system we call The Internet.

        You can go into minute detail on what the cars and trucks are, horse drawn carriages, people etc, but ultimately, the internet is the highway. It is separate from and fundamentally not responsible for what you choose to put on it.