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30 million gallons of water... you know with all that money that they are throwing at these data centers, they could solve world hunger or at least alleviate it in America, cure cancer, do something for the environment like reforestation especially in the desert parts of America and there are methods do it but no their unwavering focus is on something that makes that will make everything worse! More heat, faster resource depletion and destruction of environment around these data centers, like for who is this supposed to make life better? if you immediately thought of the terminator then yeah they'll be fine but us? we are so fucked if this keeps going.
Silly none of those make them more money. You know that thing that is made up and doesn't exist.
Oh i know, all this money is being invested on a promise of imaginary returns and IOUs. Loved it a few weeks ago when i read that HK Hynix promised Sam Altman 40% of their memory chips but it was just a letter of intent and not a binding contract so they jumped on expecting a big payout and got screwed, beautiful.
Even the companies that invested heavily in AI, that is they replaced people with AI and are getting screwed over with subpar work and don't forget Grok's pedo heaven and fake nudes and so much more to say how this AI "revolution" is a shitstorm that nobody needed.
Do you have a link for the HK Hynix / OpenAI thing you are talking about?
Is there more detail than what we already knew a few months ago?
https://thedeepdive.ca/openai-locked-up-40-of-global-ram-with-no-obligation-to-buy-any-of-it/
Here is one of the articles but nothing new.
Thanks, there some new infos for me in there.
Preaching to the choir.