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So, what are the new datacenters even for? (awful.systems)
submitted 3 days ago by diz@awful.systems 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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[-] rhamph@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Big corporations are not in the business of selling things and making profits. Their whole line of business is gaming financial markets.

In that regard, datacentres don’t need to do anything. It just needs to demonstrate some material ‘investment’ into Making AI Happen, presenting a potential for super duper revenues in the glorious future, and thereby securing outlandish valuations today.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago

I could have gone with destroying excess capital to preserve the status quo, but this stage and with this administration in the US going for subtlety seems unnecessary .

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