why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

[adrake@sfba.social]

@mast0d0nphan @ana there's nothing worth reusing in a mall. Data centers have racks of heavy equipment inside and generally heavy cooling setups on the roof, too. Mall construction isn't rated for that. Cheaper and less risk to demolish and build to spec than to retrofit. Nobody wants to fry millions of dollars in server hardware because the retrofitted mall roof leaked.

The site is flat, but unless you get lucky it probably has none of the other things you'd want (like proximity to big power lines or network backbones).

[getthebrief@mastodon.social]

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[patterfloof@meow.social]

@mast0d0nphan @ana probably cheaper & easier to build from scratch, rather than modifying existing buildings

and also why they don't build vertically, instead of spreading out the slop box till its the size of Manhattan

[mamalake@beige.party]

@ana what would we call data centers in cruise ships?

[rayotron@mstdn.social]

@MamaLake @ana

Data centers in cruise ships are called hantAIviruses.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ana Because you can enter a mall and peek at the rubbish, before you buy it. While with "AI" datacenters the slop is randomly mixed by some algorithm before it's sold as gold.

[bazkie@beige.party]

@MamaLake @ana a waste of perfectly good water?

[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@ana Future unemployment receptacles. Energy bill rockets. Yeah, I can come up with some better ones.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@ana "datacenter" sounds high tech thus great for investors. Honesty tends to drive investors away (Uber didn't become a global taxi company by being honest about being taxis, they became a global taxi company by saying shit about personal limousines and calling it "ride sharing")

[soozcat@vmst.io]

@ana Then actual dead malls converted to data centers should be called "sloppy seconds"

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@ana

because, contrary to what most people here think, AI is , and this is true, a very powerful tool that helps a lot of people get their work done

[dfx4509b@friendica.world]

@ana How 'bout calling them, Destroyers of Worlds, bringing up Oppenheimer's famous quote?

[kevin@dice.camp]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @ana Yes, humans were useless before LLMs.

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@kevin @ana

not sure, but I think ana has blocked or muted me, so I can't see the OP
but I don't understand your post

my point is very simple: contrary to what many here think, AI is, today, a very powerful and very useful tool.

you can call me a fool or knave or liar, but that is what I and a lot of other think

that doesn't mean that *overall*, that AI is a net benefit: I dont know much about that

[eryel@chaosfem.tw]

@ana because the naming came from people who think "AI" is the best thing since the coming of Jesus or something

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ana
dunno, "slopping mall" sounds kinda.. cozy? in a way?

[mothwaves@mk.absturztau.be]

@ana@starlite.rodeo Too much whimsy for techbros

[queenofsquiggles@transfem.social]

@ana@starlite.rodeo adding this to my voice over list if that's alright ️

[linear@nya.social]

@NNN@bettercities.top @ana@starlite.rodeo there are very many such datacenters spread across the USA. my first job was working in one

[nnn@bettercities.top]

@ana
There was an Omaha Nebraska USA datacenter that had been built in a dead mall... not sure it's still there.