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Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers: The tech industry has fully lost the plot.
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-local-communities-stop-defying-ai-data-centers
This is still pretty much bleeding edge technology, who’s to say that the way we are currently doing thing is the most optional one? I’d rather they stop building these massive data centers and instead have their researchers focus on making these models run on consumer level hardware since throwing more and more compute power at the problem is not sustainable in the long run.
Replying to @LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca
AI is, sure. But data centers have been around for literally decades. There’s nothing bleeding edge about it.
We know how to run data centers efficiently and less wastefully. It’s just more expensive so these fucks don’t want to do it.
They could power themselves entirely from solar and wind. They won’t. They could use closed loop cooling. They won’t. Because those options are more expensive and AI isn’t profitable yet (if ever).
They could do like what you’re saying and turn their models into locally run things on the end user device. They won’t because the only way they’re making money right now at all is on the mass data they collect from it.