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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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[–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If the Russian Bot Farm thing you're talking about is Ukraine bombing a data center and seeing 90% fewer right wing posts, I regret to inform you that it wasn't accurate [bluesky thread source]

The bots they were talking about were search crawler bots from Yandex. Actual Twitter/X bots saw no change in traffic.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Admitted speculation:

    I did, however, notice of my own accord that I had 4 days with zero scam calls instead of my usual 10-15, which in retrospect looking back corresponds with when a bunch of Russian services went down. I suspect that the automated crawlers and VOIP systems and aggregators perform a background hum of utility for scam and troll services that makes them much less effective in their absence.

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