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Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn: "What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked."
futurism.com/future-society/data-centers-trillion-capital-time-bomb-bain
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
The MBAs think they can just pull an Internet and mobile device revolution out of thin air 💀💀💀
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
The Internet was a slow burn starting in the 1960s and gaining momentum through one of humanity’s most productive generations into the 80s and beyond, spurred on by personal computing. Mobile was a (retrospectively) natural continuation.
LLMs have been around for a very long time but they’re just forcing the issue with a product that’s not yet compelling enough to justify its enormous cost. It’s like waiting for the iPhone and the App Store to make smartphones ubiquitous.
Replying to @CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
Ehh I don’t think mobile was just a continuation of the Internet revolution, it was its own thing that happened to change the internet a lot.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
I see it as an extension of the PC combined with the Internet and hardware advances. It certainly changed the Internet and our society. But I’ll leave it to historians to fight over!
Replying to @CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
Mobile coincides with the idea of calculations and data being handled by 3rd party cloud servers instead of yourself.
That should be the time where the majority of performance shifted from being in peoples personal devices, to being in data centers owned by fewer large companies renting out access in various ways.
Not sure where else you wanna move the compute now for the next “innovation”. Even the bullshit about space datacenters isn’t really any different, it’s still compute owned by a company rented out.
Replying to @Redjard@reddthat.com
Back to the devices (Apple with some local AI), but that’s not exactly revolutionary.