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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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?
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.
The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ‘em showin’ up at those jobs.
— George Carlin
Maybe there needs to be a rebellion not against government but the real overlords…
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
And yet it only goes to very few people. When they don’t pay for basic preventative care, the more complicated issues grow in cost in such a way as to outweigh their “savings”.
The US is a country that believes that not paying your rent or replacing the batteries in the smoke detector is a fantastic way to save money. Joke country.
Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is
It proves having socialised healthcare would be more cost effective. But shareholders.
The real joke of capitalism is that cost-effectiveness undercuts the whole system.
In relation to what?
I really love this.
Extra bonus because quote is from Gandhi
He is history’s most violent monster, after all
jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
Please stop using AI, please.
If you’re required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.
I beg of you.
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.
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
While everyone had 56k modems, they laid millions of miles of finer optic cable. That sounds like brute forcing to me. Most of it laid there dark for 20 years.
Then 9/11 happened and suddenly we have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth competed with infrared before it dominated. Bluetooth’s wlan not getting good is still sad to me.
I’ve been cruising with the most expensive model at work for a while now. After github’s pricing model change they finally asked us to be more conscious about which model we’re using (which was hilarious after we were constantly asked to use more AI), but eh, it’s easier to just leave it on Claude 4.8. I figure eventually the costs will catch up with the company.
Make sure to use max reasoning for better results!
And more time to relax while it is “kajiggering…”
It’s not even necessary. It will come down on its own. Recent reportings in my company says we’ve increased our productivity by 10℅ while the number of defects rose by 40℅. And the cost increases with every month. It’s unsustainable.
wouldn’t it be easier to sabotage tents with data farms in them
Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
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
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.
I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.
I’ve seen Mad Max and I’m going to disagree. This looks LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE MAD MAX to me and you can’t diminish that, because it’s entirely subjective. But also correct. The resemblance is uncanny.
I also am a qualified expert on what does and doesn’t look like mad max, and I concur.
10’s of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people…
By relying on most people being law abiding citizens who only act like badass rebels online.
right like hardware is extremely vulnerable to fires lmao
its a good thing there isnt a cost of living crisis or people might think all that copper was valuble
The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
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.
Oh yeah… This feels like a super sustainable industry
/S
Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.
Release the meth heads on that copper
