These “makeshift” structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.
“Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation.”
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe
Hmmmm
I really love this.
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
How is this like Mad Max?
They rolled poorly on their “x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece” dice
Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?
We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
Homeless don’t earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It’s bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
Say, uh… how many people are guarding that hardware?
Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it’s one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
so much waste. why bother flying in your personal jet to burn the world down when you can just leave it idling on the ground?
Idling? What makes you think that these things won’t be running at full blast 24/7?
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
They are self igniting :)
Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
Looking forward to the domestic attacks on these.
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won’t even relocate them as it’s more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute
Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.
Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.
Please stop using AI, please.
If you’re required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.
I beg of you.
Pure wishful thinking like this is just as useful as thoughts and prayers.
This is a overhyped technology just like the internet was before the dotcom bubble popped.
The best you can hope for is for the AI bubble to burst and then see what AI is like when it normalises.
Because to think this technology will just go away is going to end the same way as for the people who said the internet is just a temporary fad.
When the dot com bubble bursted, the typical internet speed was 56k modem speed and cellular internet practically didn’t exist. At that point the internet still needed years of exponential technological advancement to allow for stuff like streaming amd mobile services. The difference with the AI bubble is that they try to brute force their way out of infancy by throwing ludicrous amounts of money, energy and other recources at it instead of waiting for the much needed technological progress
