Could someone here explain these data centers? All of a sudden they seem to be propping up every where.

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14. They're all competing to be the "winner take all" in a giant market they envision.

They are using brute-force algorithms instead of smarter and much smaller ones. The Chinese issued a model that is vastly smaller and more efficient. Translation: they work harder, not smarter and are colossally wasteful.

I see AI models running on desktop computers already, so like mainframe computers, a few will survive, serving big corporations and (of course) government surveillance of citizens --- look up "pre-crime"

Number of people running spreadsheets on personal computers versus running financial models on mainframes?

I can't imagine the ratio.

Excess capacity and power generation will have been wasted. It will be up to us whether we get all the excess power capacity for comfort and tons of space that will be unused, now for housing, or if they just electrocute dissenters in the giant concentration camps made available.

The Gartner Hype Cycle is undefeated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle



Guess where we are on the curve.