Maybe optimize the LLM to run on less compute?
Man you guys would be surprised how normal these tent-systems are in all sorts of industry manufacturing stuff. Yes they’re “temporary” constructions, but in a very permanent kind of way. They’re insulated, heated/cooled, have cast concrete flooring, rated for surprisingly high winds etc. They can easily be used for years without issues.
Is it illegal to buy handkerchiefs, bottles of vodka, and a lighter?
Not separately
This seems very different to high-security data centers…
- I wouldn’t want my (business) data handled like that
- I wonder how well this could be defended against a roving gang of enterprising racoons that comes to liberate their precious RAM and GPUs 🦝
High security data centers are usually invisible, unless you know that some random building is a datacenter.
I can hear the war cry already: “the greatest technician that’s ever lived”
Its not business data, these are just ridiculously powered AI training computers.
Reading that China is quite advanced in AI also, and if these things are related, how are they handling things like data centers over there? Or are they not related?
Lots of statesponsored datacenters being build in China. And of course with no way to say no to those.
And a majority of domestically produced Chinese RAM-chips are being funneled into Chinese datacenters (by government mandate).
China has a very different climate and landmass. The reason these companies keep trying to make datacenters in places where they’ll use all the water the residents need to survive, is because those places are the cheapest to build and opperate. Land in the desert is dirt-cheap (lol). China doesn’t have to build in the desert to build on cheap land, and so can build pretty much whereever they feel like it, including where water and electricity isn’t an issue.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
In the end we probably don’t know wether people are pissed about it or not, since we don’t get a lot of news from rural China.
Yeah it just had me thinking. Thank you.
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
Yes
Both if you’re lucky.
I mean, they are worth millions a rack. Get some youngins with strong backs…
I love how Zuck always gets the short end of the stick.
