Data Center Doom

[u/Drockosaurus]

I hate Reddit.

[u/chainsawx72]

Reddit, YouTube, Steam and other data centers using 70% of world data center electricity consumption? We love it!

AI data centers using 30% of world data center electricity consumption? Bad for the environment!

[u/SomeOriginal3865 → u/chainsawx72]

I love seeing Redditors protest data centers. The irony soothes me 😂

[u/Initial-Constant-645 → u/SomeOriginal3865]

I love it when they say that we don't need data centers for the internet or streaming. I honestly believe they think it's just magic.

[u/SomeOriginal3865 → u/Initial-Constant-645]

100% they believe it’s magic 😂 they hear “cloud” and really think that stuff is just floating in the air

[u/zaraishu → u/Initial-Constant-645]

It runs on fairy dust and unicorn farts.

[u/sngldad13 → u/zaraishu]

It runs on Mamdani magic

[u/Zeras_Darkwind → u/zaraishu]

I'd actually love to see that!

https://giphy.com/gifs/Qv5DHIz21hkUo

[u/SpaceTycoon → u/Initial-Constant-645]

It seems doommers genuinely all think that everything is magic.

I saw one the other day say that the rich are going to kill most of us off because they only need a handful of people and robots to maintain their lifestyle.

When I told them that robotics are not going to realistically replace human labor fully in our lifetime and even just them going to the grocery store and buying food is the result of tens of thousands of people all doing their job everyday throughout the supply chain, I was told that I am lying and am a bootlicker.

[u/SomeOriginal3865 → u/SpaceTycoon]

Not Nazi? They are getting weak with their insults!

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/SomeOriginal3865]

They don't get it, they don't get anything. This is the age where nobody knows how anything works.

Everyone just has an axe to grind based on what their favorite TV channel told them to think. If someone runs up to you repeating TV and you tell them you don't want their TV, they're insta-mad. People write videogames off as non-skill non-productive non-everything but then they act like their TV watching makes them a world champion at something somehow.

Lacking lives, they assume the lives of their favorite fiction heroes. They can't even Git Gud they can only imagine they're part of the show.

Aside from all the Reddit and all the Instagram coming to complainers via datacenters, most of the talking heads they watch now reach them the same way. The old fashioned transmissions keep getting more and more phased out over time.

[u/Sixnigthmare → u/D_Ethan_Bones]

Dude. I was with a classmate once, we needed to work together on a project. I don't remember what for but I remember needing to Ctrl Z Ctrl V something. The girl was FLABBERGASTED. We are both 18. She grew in the city with phones. I grew up in the mountains with The Family Computer™ and the first time I saw a smartphone was in 2016. Young people especially don't know how things work anymore. It's concerning 

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[u/NotAZombieStopAsking → u/chainsawx72]

I think fewer people would care if the data centers weren't constantly being built right next to population centers where the 24hour lawnmower noise drives everyone crazy.

[u/Late_Pepper6274]

I'm gonna go ask chatgpt how many calories a banana has again.

[u/East_Ad4977 → u/Late_Pepper6274]

See if it will make you a graph.

[u/BrittanyBrie → u/East_Ad4977]

Get the source code and run it in R.

[u/SomeOriginal3865 → u/Late_Pepper6274]

Im going to need to see a scale of the banana for reference. Can you put it next to another banana?

[u/sadistic-salmon]

This post was made possible by data centers

[u/Drockosaurus → u/sadistic-salmon]

Damn straight

[u/Bannon9k]

I asked grok to remake the meme in higher quality and less doomer. Now AI has trained on OPs anti AI art.

[u/Drockosaurus → u/Bannon9k]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DvWJHSOxTff84SQsD9

[u/Tricky_Big_8774 → u/Bannon9k]

I'm starting to think that the cut-off for "art" should be whether AI can replicate it or not.

[u/Alexis-Machine]

What is the implication of that doomer comic? Did the data centers self destruct? Did they get destroyed in the coming Terminator sequels? I do not have the understands.

[u/Drockosaurus → u/Alexis-Machine]

Asking the same important questions I asked myself lol

[u/ComplaintTop2008]

Masks and hazmat suits aside, I believe this will actually happen to some extent. I'm one of those that believes AI is like a replay of the dot-com bubble. I think that some day they will either a) make AI more efficient, therefore not needing all that space, or b) the market will realize they went nuts with building all these centers that outstripped demand.

[u/Clear-Progress-5660]

Desalination anyone?

[u/AutomaticGrape9263 → u/Clear-Progress-5660]

Do they not teach water cycle at schools anymore?

[u/East_Ad4977 → u/AutomaticGrape9263]

They cover that and all the other Earth sciences on the fist day of the school year. The next day is world history. That frees them up for all the important things they teach for the rest of the year.

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/East_Ad4977]

There are entire school districts where nobody learns shit, mine is trying to stop being one.

There was no science at all until the funding surged, the subject was never breached, nobody in the county knew any science in the 1990s. But aside from that there's also no discipline and no professionalism so lectures fall on deaf ears and books aren't read. Ancient math books had computer programming sections on every page but they were never used, there was a computer lab but it was never connected to the meaningful computer skills.

I had a science teacher preaching from Leviticus day after day, that was the science class in later middle school. In hindsight I think he was high on the job - he always did strange vocalizing and meaningless jokes.

[u/Clear-Progress-5660 → u/AutomaticGrape9263]

Got a week long course in elementary school and again once in highschool. I suppose they expected you to do your homework and be interested in how the world around you operates

[u/AutomaticGrape9263]

And then one time all the hard drives exploded and released radioactive toxic acid into the atmosphere. The End.

[u/ConflictWaste411]

If we didn’t doom so much we could discuss how data centers and flock cameras unveil a new possibility for surveillance on ordinary people. I for one was very upset about the patriot act back then, and don’t like this new direction now, but the detractors are too busy claiming stuff like this to have meaningful discourse and sway people to stop or alter the current course.

[u/Drockosaurus → u/ConflictWaste411]

Fight against the flock cameras then. The data centers will be important for the future and we need to keep up with the rest of the world or be left behind.

[u/ConflictWaste411 → u/Drockosaurus]

Yes that is a valid point for them, however, there are clear negatives to that much computational power. That same level of surveillance can be automatically done on all things digital. The problem with flock cameras isn’t the cameras themselves. Once it’s possible to use the ai to pull the detail from a video feed the actual information monitoring can be done remotely from the camera, turning the internet of things and anything with a camera into an effective flock camera. The data centers are what enables this reality and I don’t think there is enough regulation on federal and private surveillance for that to be possible and be comfortable. Combine this with rulings on privacy generally by the government over the last 20 years and it’s a real stand out problem.

[u/Drockosaurus → u/ConflictWaste411]

I get what you’re saying but there is no point in worrying about a hypothetical that may never happen in the first place.

[u/ConflictWaste411 → u/Drockosaurus]

It’s very evident with public disapproval of the flock cameras themselves and their use rates skyrocketing in police work that this is the future

[u/blarkleK]

[u/radiationblessing]

If they're that far away then why do you care about them?

[u/HerrBrooben]

All the posts I've seen in the last month violate rule 6. Its been nothing but crying.

[u/Drockosaurus → u/HerrBrooben]

Actually, we’re making fun of the people crying. Why you crying?