[protocolture]

Theres no reason for AI hate to bleed over to Data Center hate.

I really cant be stuffed defending AI. It either succeeds or it doesnt. But we get so much value from Data Centers and there's basically no one lauding them as an industry. Its like people waking up one morning and hating trains.

Its like people just discovered they existed yesterday and hate them for no reason.

[danaris]

We get loads of value from various industries.

That doesn't mean we would benefit from expanding those industries by triple-digit percents just to increase the profits of multibillion-dollar corporations without some pretty strong justifications.

In this case, "data centers" don't benefit anyone in and of themselves. They are merely a container for, well, data. And compute. So the degree to which they benefit us depends entirely on what data is stored there or what is being computed there.

Thus, trying to separate "AI hate" from data centers is not merely unhelpful, it's effectively meaningless. The datacenters are the AI that happens within them. That's literally the only reason so many more are being built now.

[protocolture]

>That doesn't mean we would benefit from expanding those industries by triple-digit percents just to increase the profits of multibillion-dollar corporations without some pretty strong justifications.

Ok but people are crowing against existing data centers.

>In this case, "data centers" don't benefit anyone in and of themselves

Yeah they do.

>They are merely a container for, well, data. And compute.

No they are also neutral hosts of telecommunications infrastructure where carriers can meet.

This is like saying that you like emergency services calls but want to blow up the wires that carry them.

>The datacenters are the AI that happens within them.

Patently ridiculous.

>That's literally the only reason so many more are being built now.

No you really just started paying attention.

Also "So Many" whats the correct number of Datacenters to be built? How are you calculating that? What happens if AI instead cannibalises existing rack space instead of expanding? What happens to industries that rely on colo when these trillion dollar companies make better offers for their rackspace? Do they just go nowhere? This is like attacking houses because you don't like a subset of tenants.