Rojo27

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Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple domains. This is something of a holy grail for Silicon Valley tech types.

The first center is called Prometheus and it comes online next year. It's being built in Ohio. Next up, there's a data center called Hyperion that's almost the size of Manhattan. This one should "be able to scale up to 5GW over several years." Some of these campuses will be among the largest in the world, as most data centers can only generate hundreds of megawatts of capacity.

Meta has also been staffing up its Superintelligence Labs team, recruiting folks from OpenAI, Google's DeepMind and others. Scale AI's co-founder Alexandr Wang is heading up this effort.

However, these giant data centers do not exist in a vacuum. The complexes typically brush up against local communities. The centers are not only power hogs, but also water hogs. The New York Times just published a report on how Meta data centers impact local water supplies.

There's a data center east of Atlanta that has damaged local wells and caused municipal water prices to soar, which could lead to a shortage and rationing by 2030. The price of water in the region is set to increase by 33 percent in the next two years.

Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier. The new centers could require millions of gallons per day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times. Mike Hopkins, the executive director of the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority, says that applications are coming in with requests for up to six millions of water per day, which is more than the county's entire daily usage.

“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said. “We just don’t have the water.”

This same worrying story is playing out across the country. Data center hot spots in Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and Colorado are also taxing local water reserves. For instance, some Phoenix homebuilders have been forced to pause new constructions due to droughts exacerbated by these data centers.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

This is going to be me after year of riding my folding bikesmug-explain

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I was out on a trip and had needed to go to the restroom. There was a line for the women's restroom (all of them were white) and one of them had their 3-4 year old son complaining about wanting to see his dad, who was in the restroom, in front of the men's restroom. I stood around for a second seeing if she would move her son out of the way and I started yawning. I didn't hear what the kid was saying, but from out of nowhere the mother say "Oh sorry, he said the n-word". And I'm like "huh". And she wasn't even speaking to me, instead the other women on line. I just turned back around because I had no idea what the fuck she was on about, but if your 3-4 year old is just dropping the n-word out of nowhere then I think you might have a problemanti-cracker-aktion

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 2 points 18 hours ago

He was a dear friend. A friend of mine. Possibly the best friend anyone could ever havea-little-trolling

 

Found this while I was cleaning up my room.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Second straight day off and first day official day of my PTO and ughhhhhh. So far I've felt tired and down. Hoping this quick trip I'm taking with some family tomorrow gets me right. Forecast doesn't look great. Got my dinner with a couple friends early in the week, but I was really hoping to hang out in the park with another friend and that's looking like it might just be dead in the water (haha...obama-sad ) Also wanted to take a trip to the next city over and I'm not sure I really want to travel when its rainy. Eh, maybe I'll be in the mood when the time comes around.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've always said this whenever people start talking about cancel culture. The only people who ever seem to "fall" to cancel culture are people that were never really that popular to begin with. Its why I fucking hate hearing about "people are trying to cancel such and such major celebrity" especially if its coming out of the mouth of said celebrity. No, you aren't being cancelled. I still see your fucking face all over the place.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Happened to me for the first time in... maybe ever. It really does feel nice. We've slowed down just a bit in the past few weeks though.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

Everything old is new againyes-honey-left

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Hmm, this is very reassuring in the wake of grok calling itself mechahitlervery-normal

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

About to start my vacay and uh... I actually set something up with some old friends? We had a running joke for a while where every new year we'd be like "hey we should hang out" and then someone else would say maybe next year. And it just kept on going like that until one dropped out. After that the remaining two of us kind of kept it going until we had agreed to meet up a couple years ago. That fell through and the dream was pretty much dead.

Since I was going to take my vacay I decided to try and set it up again and, well, to my surprise I was able to get everyone to agree to something next week. I've never really been the friend that invites people out and this past year or so I've been trying as much as I can just because I've grown distant from the friends I used to have that would drag me everywhere. So to finally have some success. Well, fingers crossed that we actually end up meeting up. Need to fill out a few more days, but things are off to a nice start.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, both are via conference call, but it really doesn't make it much better. Especially when there's actual shit to get done.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I fucking hate that I'm now in the corporate world, even though its just a toe in the door. We're have a meeting where its completely irrelevant to anything I do. And its one thing if we never had any other meeting, but we do! I fucking hate this shit.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also making cuts to programs like SNAP and other social safety net programs aimed at helping families, and in particular children, goes a long way towards making having children less affordable. Again, something political. These fucks want people to have more kids while cutting down any sort of help they could have to raise them and then turn around and whine about how kids aren't being raised right these days and blame the parents.

 

The LAPD:

Gruesome Newsom and other Cali Dems, probably: Instead let us do the legwork for you by pumping up the budgets of our police forces so they can be militarized locallydean-malice

 

I thought Milchick's character development was one of, if not the most, compelling parts of season 2. I had been wanting to do a little post/commentary on it, but Afrodizjha does a much better job of putting it together than I could ever hope.

 

Best part is:

The New Orleans Police Department said in a statement that “law enforcement is working to determine applicable charges in this incident.”

They arrested him before determining what he could be charged with.

Death to America

UPDATE: No charges. Still imagine probably spent the night locked up for caring about people being genocided. And I'm guessing the NFL won't be reversing their ban on him from all events.

 

In a rare youtube algoritim W, I got recommended the trailer for the series from Chinese studio Flint Sugar, which is releasing in 2025, based on this short film. Kinda gives some FLCL vibes, at least in so far as the style.

Trailer for the series: youtu.be/watch?v=YOqMmz0gDZ8

 

Guess Brian Thompson didn't bring his moral vest to his visit to NYC. Oh wait, that's right. He never had one because his job is to be immoral for the sake of chasing the fantastical ever growing profit margin.

Rest in power, Comrade Castrofidel-salute-big

 

soypoint-2

I'll allow myself to get hyped just this once. Funny thing is I've recently been thinking of rewatching season 1.

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The piggies can show their ink now? Wonder what sort of interesting ink they've been hidingblob-no-thoughts

 

“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews,” Carano wrote online at the time, “How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

Conservatives: Look at all of you lefty snowflakesfrothingfash

Also conservatives: Everyone hates me for my views, I'm being oppressedwojak-nooo

 

Banning Russia from team sports and making individual athletes go through a 2 year vetting process. Not politicalsmuglord

Russia hosting its own international sports competition after the Olympics. Politicaldoug-point-cry

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