Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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joene 🏴🍉
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Looking at the images of #AI #datacenters one cannot help but wonder about how much physical desolation and trash (made of degraded short-lived hardware no one will be able to use efficiently) AI bubble will leave behind. The dotcom bubble pales in comparison.
After all, the dotcom bubble only left behind scores of Aeron chairs and that fibre that @pluralistic keeps mentioning, so one could count that a net positive.
A screenshot of a title of the following article:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-gpu-service-life-can-be-surprisingly-short-only-one-to-three-years-is-expected-according-to-unnamed-google-architect
The title states:
> Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect
> A photo of the "Stargate I" site in Abilene, Texas. Credit: OpenAI
Taken from the following article: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/
Looking at the images of #AI #datacenters one cannot help but wonder about how much physical desolation and trash (made of degraded short-lived hardware no one will be able to use efficiently) AI bubble will leave behind. The dotcom bubble pales in comparison.
After all, the dotcom bubble only left behind scores of Aeron chairs and that fibre that @pluralistic keeps mentioning, so one could count that a net positive.
A screenshot of a title of the following article:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-gpu-service-life-can-be-surprisingly-short-only-one-to-three-years-is-expected-according-to-unnamed-google-architect
The title states:
> Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect
> A photo of the "Stargate I" site in Abilene, Texas. Credit: OpenAI
Taken from the following article: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/
pospi
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“AI startup Anthropic said on Wednesday it would invest $50 billion in building data centers in the U.S., the latest multi-billion-dollar outlay in the industry as companies race to expand their artificial intelligence infrastructure.” ~ Reuters
i’ll have been long dead but water will cost $500 per bottle. we will be living in the dark. there will be no internet save that for the 1% remaining on the planet.
“AI startup Anthropic said on Wednesday it would invest $50 billion in building data centers in the U.S., the latest multi-billion-dollar outlay in the industry as companies race to expand their artificial intelligence infrastructure.” ~ Reuters
i’ll have been long dead but water will cost $500 per bottle. we will be living in the dark. there will be no internet save that for the 1% remaining on the planet.
｢ given the current situation, QLC NAND is expected to overtake TLC in popularity by early 2027, marking a significant shift in the storage landscape. While enterprise-grade QLC SSDs would entirely power this pivot, Sandisk has already raised NAND prices by 50%, according to another DigiTimes report, after initially warning of a 10% increase two months ago ｣
Joachim
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"Worries about water use have gone viral, even though data centres are no thirstier than other industrial projects. But they do eat up power, rapaciously. Data centres consume 5% of America’s electricity, up from 2% a decade ago. The International Energy Agency projects nearly 10% by 2030 (see chart 1). Average power bills are up around 40% since 2019, well above inflation. Georgia’s PSC has approved six bill rises in recent years.
Are data centres to blame? In Georgia, the main culprit is more prosaic. Alongside the standard pressures–natural gas prices, costly grid modernisation–Georgians are also paying for cost overruns at Plant Vogtle, the site of America’s first from-scratch nuclear reactors in decades. (The plant is named after Alvin Vogtle, an electricity executive and possible inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in “The Great Escape”. The new reactors will be the world’s most expensive until Britain’s Hinkley Point C wraps up in the 2030s.)"
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/30/the-data-centre-backlash-is-brewing-in-america
"Worries about water use have gone viral, even though data centres are no thirstier than other industrial projects. But they do eat up power, rapaciously. Data centres consume 5% of America’s electricity, up from 2% a decade ago. The International Energy Agency projects nearly 10% by 2030 (see chart 1). Average power bills are up around 40% since 2019, well above inflation. Georgia’s PSC has approved six bill rises in recent years.
Are data centres to blame? In Georgia, the main culprit is more prosaic. Alongside the standard pressures–natural gas prices, costly grid modernisation–Georgians are also paying for cost overruns at Plant Vogtle, the site of America’s first from-scratch nuclear reactors in decades. (The plant is named after Alvin Vogtle, an electricity executive and possible inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in “The Great Escape”. The new reactors will be the world’s most expensive until Britain’s Hinkley Point C wraps up in the 2030s.)"
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/30/the-data-centre-backlash-is-brewing-in-america
Google is planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence earlier this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/07/tech/google-ai-data-center-australia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #defense #google #australia #datacenters
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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"Without water, we die. In many places, we are running out of it. And we are trading it for, what? For email? For brainstorming help? For code that a real programmer is going to have to fix later, anyhow?" #ai #artificialIntelligence #samAltman #chatGTP #claude #grok #water #naturalResources #conservation #dataCenters
https://www.overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-email-finds-you-parched/
