This is crazy, data center boom

They're building these all over the place. I have yet to hear one good thing about them. They are using massive amounts of water and energy with no contingency plan for the locals. They will end up crushing the areas that they are in. Technology is great, until it isn't.
Ultimately, these facilities are all about collecting your data, and someday very soon it will all be turned against us.
 
It's been turned against us for a long time already. AI is just a really big upswing in gathering, consolidating, analyzing and leveraging it. Get used to it. It's not going to stop accelerating.

People think broke dick free crap like GhatGPT is AI. So they aren't worried about it. That free broke dick crap isn't even real AI. Real AI is the biggest change to face humanity as we know it. Ever. And nothing we little folk can do to even slow it down. And neither do any of us have any access to it.

Scary part, is even the people making money off it and pushing it don't really know where it's really going to go.

- DAA
 
DAA said:
It's been turned against us for a long time already. AI is just a really big upswing in gathering, consolidating, analyzing and leveraging it. Get used to it. It's not going to stop accelerating.

People think broke dick free crap like GhatGPT is AI. So they aren't worried about it. That free broke dick crap isn't even real AI. Real AI is the biggest change to face humanity as we know it. Ever. And nothing we little folk can do to even slow it down. And neither do any of us have any access to it.

Scary part, is even the people making money off it and pushing it don't really know where it's really going to go.

- DAA
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The scary part isn’t just AI itself, it’s that we handed over the raw material for it decades ago. Our habits, conversations, locations, purchases, politics, fears, attention spans… we dumped all of it willingly into giant data machines for convenience and entertainment. AI is just the engine finally learning how to weaponize all that information at scale.

And honestly, it’s creepy.

I heard a saying years ago that I kind of turned into my own version: “Honesty is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.” But I don’t answer to any man anyway. My ultimate authority is a loving God, and He’s always looking. Not in some stalker or spying kind of way, more like I’ve turned my free will over to His care and guidance.

But now? Now I live with the actual stalker vibe.

I can stand there talking to the farmer down the road about Bermuda sprigs, never type a word about it, and somehow by that evening every ad on earth is trying to sell me Bermuda sprigs. Half the time it feels like this stuff isn’t just listening anymore, it’s predicting.

Then Google starts finishing my thoughts in grey text after I type two words, like it already knows where my brain is headed before I do. At some point you stop feeling like you’re using the internet, and start feeling like the internet is studying you.

That’s the part people shrug off because they think AI is just funny chatbots and goofy pictures. Nah. That’s the kiddie pool version the public gets to splash around in. The real stuff is sitting behind governments, corporations, financial systems, surveillance programs, and algorithms quietly building psychological profiles so detailed they probably know what you’ll believe, or panic about before you even do.

And the creepiest part? Most of us volunteered for it because it came wrapped in free shipping, convenience, and dopamine hits.
 
When you think about it, its really crazy how technology has progressed in the last 30-40yrs. the computer, then internet, then cell phones, then social media, vehicle tech, how one thing leads to another. All in the name of making like easier, Convenience, ease of business etc. Its all a big drag net that is going sideways. The really nutty thing is my mom talked about this stuff a lot in the early 90's. The beast system, digital currency. Seems she isn't so crazy sounding anymore.
 
Stu Farish said:
There's going to be many billions spent on this over the next few years. You're going to see small reactors built for the purpose of powering one datacenter per one small reactor
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they should make those CSB's install twice the power they expect to max use to be able to build one - that way they're contributing to the grid as well as powering their own facility.
 
Plant.One said:
they should make those CSB's install twice the power they expect to max use to be able to build one - that way they're contributing to the grid as well as powering their own facility.
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Great idea. the one in Utah is supposed to have its own power plant. Doubt they will share any.
 
It's a race with China. Uses lots of power (elec or gas) and H2O, employs just a few for operation. Plus it isn't secure!! And several will go broke if they keep up with latest technology. Just imagine the cost to replace 50K servers (per installation) every 3-5 years.
 
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Palantir launches the Technocracy Manifesto

Palantir’s “Technological Republic” would be technocracy, the depoliticized political structure, driven by AI, organized as the Benthamite panopticon, in which scientists and engineers act as…
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Palantir, already notorious as a megacorporation dedicated to data control and analysis, but also as the most properly and consciously “ideological” of the IT services companies, has recently launched a political manifesto that opens a revealing, though not very surprising, window into its vision of the future.

The 22 points, which would represent steps toward establishing what they call the “Technological Republic,” deserve to be reproduced here:

“1. Silicon Valley has a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. […]

  1. We must rebel against the tyranny of apps. […]
  2. Free email is not enough. […]
  3. The limits of soft power, of grand rhetoric alone, have been exposed. […]
  4. The question is not whether AI weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. […]
  5. Military service must be a universal duty. […]
  6. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we must build it; and the same goes for software. […]
  7. Public servants do not need to be our priests. […]
  8. We must show far more benevolence toward those who have submitted to public life. […]
  9. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. […]
  10. Our society has become too eager to hasten, and often rejoices in, the ruin of its enemies. […]
  11. […] An era of deterrence, the atomic age, is coming to an end, and a new era of AI-based deterrence is about to begin.
  12. No other country in world history has promoted progressive values more than this one. […]
  13. American power made an extraordinarily long peace possible. […]
  14. The post-war neutralization of Germany and Japan must be reversed. […]
  15. We should applaud those who try to build where the market has failed to act. […]
  16. Silicon Valley must play a role in combating violent crime. […]
  17. The relentless exposure of public figures’ private lives drives an excessive number of talented people away from public service. […]
  18. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. […]
  19. The widespread intolerance toward religious beliefs in certain circles must be fought. […]
  20. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. […]
  21. We must resist the superficial temptation of empty, meaningless pluralism. […]
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Snip~But the main key to deciphering the thinking behind Palantir lies in the work “The Technological Republic,” co-authored by Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, who are not only senior Palantir executives but also its leading intellectuals. And this alone – the fact that Palantir has “intellectuals“ – already marks a certain difference in how Palantir sees itself and its mission.
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