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

[johnweeks@mastodon.social]

@pluralistic

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@ana And a roomful of people typing on manual typewriters could earn the name "NI Data Center" NI being Natural Intelligence...

[p4w@woof.tech]

@ana actually calling them "slop factory" works too

[bayo@me.dm]

@ana in order to get the investments ($)

[seepr@toot.community]

@ana who actually owns the data in the center? artists? #artist #art

The term datacenter implies that the data is actually the most valuable part about it; a fitting observation imo.

[tinfoilhat@social.cybercult.biz]

@ana bravo

[b_rain@troet.cafe]

@LukefromDC @ana now we can all be the knights of NI! #montyPython

[seabass@social.seabass.systems]

@mast0d0nphan @ana I'd guess it's chiefly a ventilation issue. Given how stuffy the air inside them can be ordinarily, I can't imagine that cooling computers in them would be easy!

[happycrow13@mastodon.social]

@ana Oh no I hate that. I mean it's perfect, but the way it fumbles off my tongue is just fucky.
...now that I think about it that's perfect for AI generated bs. Looks good, feels off and gross in a way I can't articulate.

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ana oh bravo!

[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]

@ana I Think you just won the internet. We approve of this message!

[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"