this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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[–] brem@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Once dead internet finishes manifesting, it'll be simply bots shilling & scamming themselves. The data centers will cease to feed the greedy pigs and will be left for the rats. However, the product will have no time to rejoice for we will already have become addicted to the next big thing.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And by "rats," you mean me. Me and my crowbar are ready and waiting to get our hands on a bunch of abandoned server hardware, especially those racks and racks of hard drives.

Think of how much pirated anime you could fit a couple of those arrays!

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I work in one of those AI data centers. Remarkably little storage. And the servers are astonishingly specialized for the job. Not to mention power hungry. I'd much rather have a gen10 Proliant. Or a few NUCs and a qnap.

They really don't need storage except for the models and training data right? And most of that isnt theirs to begin with so why store it?

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago

They have different data centers for storage (AI doesn't need much), but you're right, it's all unbelievably specialized to the point of being basically useless for any purpose that it wasn't specifically designed for. We really have been spoiled with how general purpose our computing infrastructure has been up until now. That's simply not how things are scaling up anymore.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

So all that breathless reporting I've been reading lately about how the AI boom is causing a hard drive shortage is bullshit just like the AIs themselves? Can't say as I'm surprised one way or the other.

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

One Hundred Percent THIS ^^^