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Hyperrealist Datacenters And Potemkin McRibs | blarg
｢ these are not datacenters. They are the physical byproducts of a misguided hyperreality arbitrage scheme, processed and extruded into the world as an incidental byproduct of the maintenance of much larger financial delusion ｣
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/09/25/hyperrealist-datacenters-and-potemkin-mcribs/
So I found a 4 GB RAM / 40 GB storage VPS for just USD 10.99/year (!) recently.
It's from George Datacenter, which I had never heard about before. I looked it up and found a few negative reviews but nothing that suggested it was an actual scam, so I decided to give it a try considering the absurdly low price and the fact the complaints were all from a long time ago.
So far it's been smooth. Apparently you can load custom ISOs (I haven't tried, but the UI is there) and there is toggleable VNC access.
I'm curious if anyone has any experience to share about this provider?
Also, the offer is still up if you are interested:
So I found a 4 GB RAM / 40 GB storage VPS for just USD 10.99/year (!) recently.
It's from George Datacenter, which I had never heard about before. I looked it up and found a few negative reviews but nothing that suggested it was an actual scam, so I decided to give it a try considering the absurdly low price and the fact the complaints were all from a long time ago.
So far it's been smooth. Apparently you can load custom ISOs (I haven't tried, but the UI is there) and there is toggleable VNC access.
I'm curious if anyone has any experience to share about this provider?
Also, the offer is still up if you are interested:
Interesting Globe piece on electricity prices and datacenters, and how they're often not related the way everyone wants you to think, according to a new study.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/25/business/reason-electricity-prices-rising/
The anti-datacenter wave is really fascinating to me. Is it just because "AI Datacenters" are so rapidly expanding that people are against them, or is there an undercurrent of something about the "AI" itselr?
This article does nothing to answer that question, but you can!
«La IA generativa no es más que una forma de suicidio social que debe frenarse antes de que sea demasiado tarde [...]. Los centros de datos que la alimentan consumen enormes cantidades de agua y electricidad [...]. Se acaba el tiempo para que reconozcamos las verdaderas amenazas que plantea la IAG y que ningún centro de datos justifica el coste público que supone permitir que esta tecnología se afiance en nuestras sociedades».
✍️ @parismarx
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-societal-disaster/
«La IA generativa no es más que una forma de suicidio social que debe frenarse antes de que sea demasiado tarde [...]. Los centros de datos que la alimentan consumen enormes cantidades de agua y electricidad [...]. Se acaba el tiempo para que reconozcamos las verdaderas amenazas que plantea la IAG y que ningún centro de datos justifica el coste público que supone permitir que esta tecnología se afiance en nuestras sociedades».
✍️ @parismarx
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-societal-disaster/
⚡ US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025 / @theregister
｢ The massive leap in power is due to the sheer level of investment in new datacenters from the hyperscalers. Amazon expects to spend about $100 billion on capex projects this year, while Microsoft is investing $80 billion on building out infrastructure, Meta is aiming for $66-72 billion, and Google upped its estimate for 2025 capex spending to $85 billion ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/us_datacenters_ai_power/
💸 OpenAI Needs $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months / Ed Zitron
｢ Number must go up, deal must go through, and Jensen Huang wouldn’t go on CNBC and say “yeah man if I’m honest I’ve got no fucking clue how Sam Altman is going to pay me, other than with the $10 billion I’m handing him in a month. Anyway, NVIDIA’s accounts receivables keep increasing every quarter for a normal reason, don’t worry about it.” ｣
⚡ US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025 / @theregister
｢ The massive leap in power is due to the sheer level of investment in new datacenters from the hyperscalers. Amazon expects to spend about $100 billion on capex projects this year, while Microsoft is investing $80 billion on building out infrastructure, Meta is aiming for $66-72 billion, and Google upped its estimate for 2025 capex spending to $85 billion ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/us_datacenters_ai_power/
Comme on cultive une obsession certaine pour les data centers, chez @nextinpact , on s'est dit qu'il fallait peut-être expliquer concrètement ce qu'il y avait dedans.
Commençons-donc par le cœur du réacteur : le serveur.
#AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-finances
🌐 Ashburn, Virginia handles ~70% of the world’s internet traffic — the web’s hidden backbone.
Comme on cultive une obsession certaine pour les data centers, chez @nextinpact , on s'est dit qu'il fallait peut-être expliquer concrètement ce qu'il y avait dedans.
Commençons-donc par le cœur du réacteur : le serveur.
#JeffBezos, the billionaire founder of #Amazon and #BlueOrigin, says that orbital #datacenters will become the most cost-effective way to address the growing data and power needs of #AI within 20 years. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/jeff-bezos-orbital-data-centers-next-step/ #Space #Tech #ItalianTechWeek
Power-hungry data centers run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/04/tech/china-underwater-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #datacenters #oceans #energy
Data centers in space? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says it's possible in the next 10 to 20 years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/04/tech/bezos-data-centers-outer-space/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #jeffbezos #datacenters #space #ai
The staggering investments in artificial intelligence keep coming. But how are the enormous sums possible when the returns on investments, at least for now, pale in comparison? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/03/tech/ai-investment-craze/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #investments #datacenters
🌐 Ashburn, Virginia handles ~70% of the world’s internet traffic — the web’s hidden backbone.
@mediapart BTW, la présentation de rapport est aujourd'hui, live sur youtube: https://theshiftproject.org/evenements/presentation-du-rapport-final-intelligence-artificielle/ "Quelles trajectoires énergie-carbone sont en train d’être impulsées par les filières des centres de données et de la capacité de calcul ? Quels en sont les futurs physiquement réalisables, compatibles avec la contrainte énergie- #carbone ?" 1/2
@mediapart 2/2 ici le rapport en pdf "Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs" : quelles infrastructures dans un monde décarboné ? https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/RF-PIA-1.pdf
#datacenters #IA #LLM #carbonFootprint #energie #CO2 #electricity #electricite
#Écologie 🌱 IA: un rapport alerte sur le risque de conflit d’usage de l’électricité
Les projets de centres de données numériques sont si nombreux et si énormes que leur consommation d’électricité pourrait être multipliée par quatre d’ici dix ans en France, selon un rapport du Shift Project. Au risque de menacer la décarbonation des transports et de l’industrie.
Par Jade Lindgaard › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecologie/011025/ia-un-rapport-alerte-sur-le-risque-de-conflit-d-usage-de-l-electricite?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
@mediapart BTW, la présentation de rapport est aujourd'hui, live sur youtube: https://theshiftproject.org/evenements/presentation-du-rapport-final-intelligence-artificielle/ "Quelles trajectoires énergie-carbone sont en train d’être impulsées par les filières des centres de données et de la capacité de calcul ? Quels en sont les futurs physiquement réalisables, compatibles avec la contrainte énergie- #carbone ?" 1/2
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