Data Center Watch sounds like a group keeping an eye on the threat of data centres. It’s actually the opposite — it’s an AI industry astroturf effort to try to make policy makers worry about threat…
  • BioMan@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I wonder what will happen to all the data-center-specialized hardware when the demand falls through the floor. SOMEONE will buy it, the question is what will people figure out how to use it for despite it not being like ordinary consumer hardware.

    • it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      The answer I don’t like thinking about too hard: mass surveillance. Running facial recognition against social media posts and security camera footage, transcribing recordings of phone calls, and using LLMs to build dossiers at scale. Confabulations? Complete nonsense accusations? Who cares? Are you going to defend domestic terrorists against this huge pile of evidence-shaped text?

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It’s chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That’s assuming the hardware doesn’t die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.