The Trump AI data center campus
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The Chinese are going to have to come up with some different propaganda angles. Data Centers that supply their own power and don't use much water blows their current bucket of lies out the window.
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Don't know how viable it is, but have seen more than a couple articles now speculating about how it might not be a coincidence that we are seeing a massive rise in data centers needed and the explosion of flock camera installations nationally.
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The data centers are much more about AI and computing power than they are about video storage. We're approaching the Singularity. That's what the AIDCs are about.
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It's not maybe. Video storage is baby stuff. Has been for decades. Look at sites like YouTube - massive video storage and playback for decades without data centers. Billions of cameras feeding that weekly vs. thousands of Flock cameras. Hundreds of such sites same stuff. The Ring doorbell network, every cell provider network, all without data centers. Flock can't hold a candle to what we're already doing for the last 20 years.
The AIDCs won't be wasted for mere video storage, the idea is laughably ridiculous.
The scale we're seeing is the perfectly natural response to our entropically growing computing power - our technological curve has gone exponential.
Suggest read "The Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurtzwiel. Everything will become clear.
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If you want something conspiratorial - mankind's technological curve was always a steady, slowly increasing curve on a graph, for millions of years. It bumped up a little with the mastery of fire, the invention of the wheel, use of weapons for hunting, etc.
It wasn't until 1947 with the "invention" of the transistor, and the curve turns sharply upward and continues upward.
1947... Roswell. Where I believe we first saw silicon as more than a nuisance waste product of steel production and discovered its semiconductor properties. Yes we learned it from the alien spaceship.
Dudes didn't just shit the first transistor - they were mimicking what was found and learning to understand it. To reverse engineer it.
Today we measure computing power based on how many transistors we can put on a one-inch square silicon chip. It's around 150 billion today - but 3D stacking techniques now being developed can take that number into the trillions!
THIS is what the AIDCs are about - processor power. Computing power. Not file system storage lol.
It wasn't until 1947 with the "invention" of the transistor, and the curve turns sharply upward and continues upward.
1947... Roswell. Where I believe we first saw silicon as more than a nuisance waste product of steel production and discovered its semiconductor properties. Yes we learned it from the alien spaceship.
Dudes didn't just shit the first transistor - they were mimicking what was found and learning to understand it. To reverse engineer it.
Today we measure computing power based on how many transistors we can put on a one-inch square silicon chip. It's around 150 billion today - but 3D stacking techniques now being developed can take that number into the trillions!
THIS is what the AIDCs are about - processor power. Computing power. Not file system storage lol.
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Here's more facts shooting down the anti AIDC China driven propaganda. No, they won't use all our water.
You can see the number has been zero up to around 2020 when the first centers started coming online. But ny my look at all the water wasted on trivial shit like golf courses.
You can see the number has been zero up to around 2020 when the first centers started coming online. But ny my look at all the water wasted on trivial shit like golf courses.
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Data centers that store data are relatively low end, even if they store massive amounts of video. They use a lot of storage and network bandwidth (assuming that data is accessed) but they don't generate the amount of heat or consume the amount of power that computing data centers will.
But it is also true that the vast majority of data centers are just data repositories with low end computing needs. The power gluttons are few comparatively.
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I'm talking ones such as this, with four nuclear reactors. Everything else is just rack server farms in comparison.