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How's the Metaverse coming, Zuck? Remember how your company was going to dump tens of billions of dollars into developing that digital hellhole?
What a damp pube.
The sad thing is they really did spend tens of billions on metaverse and all they have to show is that emoji art looking Zuck
The free market is truly the most optimal system.
Nah, that's just what Zuck looks like.
What a fucking waste.
Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.
The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.
Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.
Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.
I totally knew why that specific Dam was relevant, but for those lemmings that don't, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest power plant in the world.
Another comparison is that a "standard" US reactor will output 1GW of power at steady state.
This data center would require 7000 nuclear reactors, just for it. The US current has 98 active reactors.
We are a ways away.
Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.
I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.
Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.
US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.
Completely ridiculous.
Look, all Zuck knows or cares about is that it's going to be really warm up on top, and he can slither up there to soak up some of the heat
Complete delusion. There's nowhere for them to build this kind of thing, no municipality with the infrastructure to support it, and the cost would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars just to APPROXIMATE building it. This is just more billionaire propaganda to normalize the technology and the data centers when they """tone it down"" to an actually realistically achievable scale.
Bait used to be believable SMH my head.
"Now I know what you're all thinking: But Zuck, will you have enough water and electricity to run this? Don't worry folks, we'll have plenty! ...You won't have any though. Sacrifices for my greater good are honorable and necessary! Be proud to be roadkill on my highway to even more obscene wealth that I absolutely in no universe deserve or need!"
They don't even have plenty. 7 Terrawatts is twice the total average power use of North America from all sources, including electricity, gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and so on.
Remember when Zuck the Fuck thought everybody would be flocking to his Metaverse of legless apparitions stuck right at the bottom of the uncanny valley?
I just started watching Mad Men (yeah serious omission until now).
The Zuck looks a lot like the biggest assholes in the show.
Sorry I have nothing serious to add. It's not like he can be taken seriously anymore, on any level.
Build it in Hawaii, on top of your stupid bunker ya zarkin frood.
If it was really all that, Zuck wouldn't be trying to sell it to us, he'd be hoarding it jealously and worshipping its very outputs like the second coming of some Lovecraftian deity.
Another Torment Nexus, huh?
Probably building in middle of desert to. Since the land is cheap. Data center that size how much water would it need? Not like us humans need that for drinking.
Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck
You misspelled "blow up all that sweet data".
Exactly. Putting all their eggs in a single basket like that is just begging an antagonist to bomb the fuck out of them in any future conflict.
I believe you misspelled "Butlerian Jihad".
"DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said Meta was investing aggressively in AI as the technology has already boosted its ad business by allowing it to sell more ads and at higher prices."
All this to... Sell more ads.
i'm still waiting for metaverse
One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a "virtual reality" that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an 'avatar' was.
That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.
Maybe the NEXT update will have Legs™️, for real this time, guys!
More wasted resources for the pipe dreams of a rich boy.
He looks like Woody Allen.
Suck will fuck this up to. Also there isn’t enough generators available for all of these data centers. They are at least a decade out from full integration. It’s all bullshit.
As long as he pays for the hamsters food so they can power it, fine.
can we please refer to him as his internet name?
Fuckerberg.
Who is going to sacrifice their water supply for that thing?
guess hes another megalomaniac. so none of the billionaires would be marginally better than trump. ugh....
You know what? Do it. I want one of these guys to actually built one of these mega data centres. If we're going to ruin the environment anyway, we might as well encourage the billionaires to bankrupt themselves at the same time.
Billionaires will never go broke. They own the whole system.
Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.
Someone should stop this