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Question: what is ultimately the purpose of all those data centers? To store information on every single tiny aspect of our lives? Up to and including how we hold utensils and the distance and typing speed on keyboards and phones up to a micro second accuracy? I do not know... But surely if they are looking for blackmail type material they would need less storage space? Or are they looking for such an absolute birth to death information on everyone they can that they ultimately want every second of our lives in 8K video (while obviously leaving their own in a blackhole, and able to purge their own lives from storage whenever they want allowing for potential new comers who entered the elite to cover up the murders and fuckery they did to get there). What? Just fucking what are they all there for?
I mean so so so so many have cropped up that most cannot be even close to full capacity. Or can they?
They don't even know. Literally. They're just betting demand will appear
So the reason why is entirely due to someone saying 'I want to deny personal computing to everyone and destroy the environment and waste unbelievable amounts of tax payer money and cost lots of lives in the process' ultimately boils down to 'we just had a hunch'?
This is how civilizations fall in the stupidest ways imaginable.
One way to understand this process in a reductive but not altogether that off the mark way is to frame fascism as a weaponization of measurement, artificial metrics, beaucracy, dissection and surveillance. Without paperwork and endless obsessive attempts to draw distinctions between things that do not exist it really isn't true fascism.
In this sense Microsoft's use of Azure to enable the surveillance, targetting, and atomization of Palestinian society for Israel's Genocide and all of the pointless data centers meant to hoard information about people being built in areas without enough water already for humans are two sides of the same irrational coin.
This is just mostly for training and running LLMs. Not a lot of storage on these machines, they're super high memory bandwidth parallel compute monsters.
After climate change, if we survive it, the next crysis will be an information crysis, because the data humanity collects doubles every year, we'll literally run out of planet materials to store informations (pen, paper, hard disks, whatever)
Bit why. I can understand xolexting somedata but eventually it becomes aged out.
LLM till they fail then serveilance