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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun makes me so happy to be alive

Harry Potter is fascinating to me because the books have messages against bigotry in them, and you look at the author and wonder how the gap between reality and the story could possibly exist

How courteous…

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Impossible to do anything without one of our almighty corporate overlords catching wind of it and exploiting it for profit.

A complicated question to answer, I doubt anybody would have a definitively correct answer to it.

The answer is probably both really. It’s not like the internet has just stopped expanding and everything is going into AI now. But AI takes up an unproportional amount of the computational power. A data center can house servers for hundreds of different companies or even individuals, all doing different things with them. An AI data center can be dedicated to one singular company who rents out the entire space for hundreds of servers purely for AI.

Much like it’d be difficult to count every human on earth, there will probably never be a definitive number on how much is dedicated to AI. However, a study by the Electric Power Research Institute in 2024 estimated that between 10-20% of data center power consumption came from AI.

That seems relatively low, until you consider that 10-20% is compared to the 80-90% of power that goes towards literally everything else across the entire internet, and it keeps going up rapidly. For every 8-9 servers used for accounting data, sales records, research, communication networks, streaming services, security systems, medical records, multiplayer game servers, automated factory processes, and everything else in the world that computers handle, there are 1-2 servers dedicated ENTIRELY to JUST AI. And the proportion going to AI just keeps going up.

Imagine if among every single factory in the world, 10-20% of them were dedicated to producing nothing but ping pong paddles, and that percent just keeps going up, the growth of ping pong paddle production outpacing the growth of every single other product in the world that comes from a factory. What the fuck do we need that many ping pong paddles for? Are the ping pong paddles really doing enough to justify this massive resource sink??

Data centers are actually useful for a lot of things, handling traffic to websites, storing records, academic research, and whatnot. There’s a very good chance your medical records are distributed across various data centers.

AI is absolutely not one of those useful things, and is a big driving factor for the rapid expansion of new data centers which are sucking up so many valuable resources for something so useless. Data centers are not bad, AI data centers are bad

Thought this was talking about Albania’s pacific security problem there for a second

I was an electrician in Ohio, and it goes the other way too. Drive through snow storms in freezing temperatures to go work in a building that doesn’t even have walls

Department of War until 1947, then Department of Defense until recently made Department of War again

The guy near the front is so casual, just backs away with his arms still crossed, and then waddles off

No no, they definitely keep track of that too, how else are they supposed to know who to cover up for?

Is there anything they don’t track…?

But they listen to experts and aren’t just pulling bullshit out of their ass to maximize money in their pockets, right? …right?

I think the point to take away from this is that it’s weird that anybody is being bought, and weirder that only the people being bought are the ones doing the buying as well. Like one massive circle jerk of rich people extracting income from the people, giving as little as they can back, and just passing it between themselves.

Hey now, that person worked really hard for those boxes

You know how much of a hassle it is to get your inheritance? They had to pay someone to sort it for them, really just a nightmare.

People who have a billion dollars have a piece loose in their head, this checks out