making AI haters seem very cool and effective
(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbTXEOJEVM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-data-center-watch-worries-anti-ai-activism-is-working - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
I wonder what will happen to all the data-center-specialized hardware when the demand falls through the floor. SOMEONE will buy it, the question is what will people figure out how to use it for despite it not being like ordinary consumer hardware.
It’s chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That’s assuming the hardware doesn’t die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.
Ad targeting, spam campaigns, dark propaganda.
Of course. People who have money and don’t need to make money will use it.
I support the Anti data center activism that involves explosives.
In my personal and professional opinion, most datacenter outages are caused by animals disturbing fiber or power lines. Consider campaigning for rewilding instead; it’s legal and statistically might be more effective.
Think just blocking off the air vents would also work. Same thing with billionaire bunkers, block the airvents, weld the doors shut.
Unlike a bunker, a datacenter’s ventilation consists of
[]which are out of reach. The[]are heavily[], so[]unlikely to work either. However, this ventilation must be[]in order to effectively[], and that’s done by[]into the[]and[]to prevent[].Edit: making the joke funnier.
politely: while I understand the impulse behind this discursive angle, it’s probably not the greatest idea to have it here
Yeah, I was just trying to make a joke about how explosives are overkill (and point out that the billionare bunkers are prob not as secure as they would hope (still mad about them building bunkers instead of you know doing anything positive)), not really trying to make a real plan to stop them.
And tbh, we know what to do with malicious datacenters, esp if they are in bunkers, the Dutch/German police has gone after a few of them. The trick is to wait till their MDMA lab catches fire, and then you arrest them.
