That isn't what this was about tho. @Taleya was talking about how people are conflating datacenters in general with the overpowered LLM ones. And you exemplified that pretty spectacularly.

You also seem to be a bit confused one what a server is vs a datacenter given some of your comments

You’ve thoroughly proven you don’t know what you’re typing about, here’s a lollipop 🍭.

…purpose built data centres whose goal is to make money on data.

Only the federal government can make money, if anyone else does that, it’s counterfeiting and fraud. What they’re doing is accumulating money, and extracting profit.

As for hiring space in these centres for your business, you’d be a dickhead to do it.

A roundabout way of admitting your purchase order has been submitted, but you do you.

We don’t need them and given what harm they cause, both environmentally and towards society, there isn’t a valid reason to have them in Australia.

We’ve had them on this island for decades, they’ve been fine until this current fascist perversion tickled the generals of our elected neoliberal ‘representatives’.

My bar is, like any other infrastructure, that they need to be justifiable, and defensible against any legitimate critical scrutiny levelled against them. The hyper concentration of resource ingestion, consumption, and excretion intrinsic of the implementations currently proposed immediately negates them on this basis.

I’d prefer a distributed model. Pepper them throughout existing infrastructure (businesses, basements in apartment towers) to dilute their environmental impact. Require closed loop cooling systems, with exhaust heat captured and fed into secondary functions like preheating hot water. Scale can be built from the diverse meshed connections between neighbouring sites, and sites can be scaled back or shut down as required.

None of that should legitimise the inane push to build ‘AI’ infrastructure. Anyone advocating for that rubbish needs to be summarily dismissed, and ridiculed when they persist.

Ok kiddo.