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So, what are the new datacenters even for? (awful.systems)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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As I was using LLMs at work (I never use LLMs for personal projects), a question occurred to me:

What in the fuck are these new data centers supposed to actually do?

The enterprise users are all in on having LLMs write 300% of the code. And yet, both OpenAI and Anthropic are still giving these "$200 gets you $10 000 in API costs" subscriptions to every victim of AI psychosis.

Why do we have RAM, hard disk, SSD, GPU and CPU shortages and no "token shortage"?

I mean, we all know the answer, these are the offerings for the robot god, but like how in the fuck are they still obtaining loans for this shit?

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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Paying contractors

Im like 99% sure those are the only people profiting here. Data center electricians make bank to do mostly brain dead copy-paste underground

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    An electrician acquaintance of mine was on a gig early in the year essentially building open-air server racks that were then covered with huge tents, a la Tesla's long-standing "temporary" structure in Fremont. I would never have believed him if he hadn't taken pictures and video.

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