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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."

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 201 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?

Interesting.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

[–] notalannister@fedinsfw.app 46 points 2 weeks ago

Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe

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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 121 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 99 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Uses jet engines for power?

Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it's one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)

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[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder if they're flammable or inflammable?

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

They are self igniting :)

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Either way, I bet they are "cut-able" and have lots of expensive metals inside

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg FOMO, at his finest.

Even among tech bros, it really is amazing how insecure he is.

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 weeks ago

Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 53 points 2 weeks ago

jet engines

AI

How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁

[–] Steve@startrek.website 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago

They rolled poorly on their "x thing in real life is like y dystopian art piece" dice

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I suppose Mad Max was also about people living with a lack of government oversight, allowing the powerful to do as they please.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago

Need to make it sound apocalyptic somehow to draw the clicks.

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

Rally around me my tweakers, for we shall grab all the copper and gold this day.

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 31 points 1 week ago

Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Please stop using AI, please.

If you're required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.

I beg of you.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

I have been, by focusing on enabling team members to use it exactly like how leadership wants. You want them to use more AI? Okay… they need Agentic harnesses that can do work for them locally. They need MacBook Pros to run the models. They need cloud keys to test different frontier models for different loads. They need governance, observability, repeatability, scheduling, human-in-the-loop…

I’m going to show them that anyone can build a bridge, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely works. On top of that, I’m going to show them that they’re wrong in believing they want a bridge. All it should take is seeing that they got exactly what they wanted without getting anything that they wanted.

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[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh yeah... This feels like a super sustainable industry

/S

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago

Has there been an environmental study in these makeshift camps? If these were homeless, we’d placate drug use, bulldoze them to vacate the camps. What. The. Fuck.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don't even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago

Release the meth heads on that copper

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

10's of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people...

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

By relying on most people being law abiding citizens who only act like badass rebels online.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

talk about soft targets.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of this is because they don't need as many permits for "temporary" structures.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does this somehow get around local building codes?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker

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[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are these just industrial chicken coops?

You know, this kind of thing:

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[–] newton@feddit.online 11 points 2 weeks ago

Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Please rain 🌧️🌧️ 🌧️

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

where is a tornado when you need one?

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Tis the season! 🤞🤞

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