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Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power (www.tomshardware.com)
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These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.

"Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation."

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 201 points 2 months ago

Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?

Interesting.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

[-] notalannister@fedinsfw.app 46 points 2 months ago

Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you'd hopefully be long gone by then.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That amount of millions can feed the crackheads for generations.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Gamers need to start paying bounties for found GTX or DDR5 sticks.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Gods I could do a lot with just like two of those machines.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

don't let crackheads know about it

[-] newton@feddit.online 3 points 2 months ago

Yes ricko ,kaboum

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