[syntaxing]

What really bothers me with the data center boom is that prior to AI, water and electricity was constrained in a lot ways here in the states. “Our infrastructure cannot support electrification of cars and trucks!” “No watering your lawn or washing your car due to drought!”. But now for AI, we somehow miraculously can handle the amount of water and electricity it uses.

[pjc50]

The secret ingredient is money. Money makes everything possible. Money can materialize energy and water from nowhere.

(well, it can't, but it allows you to buy them off poor people, who don't matter)

[zajio1am]

These constraints, at least for electricity, are usually in end distribution networks, not in production. High-powered datacenter would get (and pay for) its own substation/transformer from higher-voltage network, thus avoiding the limitation.

[eth0up]

Isn't this how it always works? Not a snarky comment. This is a distinct and pervasive pattern. It also aligns quite well with many elitie globalist double standards.

I often encounter their proposals and briefly see the wisdom there in, but quickly remember it only applies to plebes, not them.

If you look at how oppressed much the population is in the US, it's pretty significant. From unfair taxation, small business hurdles, energy and utility regulation, arbitrary code enforcement regardless of actual quality, etc. And then there seems an unspoken rule enforcing centralization and penalizing anything that attempts otherwise.

It may seem a bit trite, but from my perspective, the public seems managed more as livestock than intelligent beings. I also think the new foisted age of data centers and AI will make this much more evident.