These “makeshift” structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.
“Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation.”
I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
Are these just industrial chicken coops?
You know, this kind of thing:
Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
Has there been an environmental study in these makeshift camps? If these were homeless, we’d placate drug use, bulldoze them to vacate the camps. What. The. Fuck.
jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW
I really love this.
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won’t even relocate them as it’s more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute
Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?
We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is
Homeless don’t earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It’s bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
That amount of millions can feed the crackheads for generations.
don’t let crackheads know about it
Yes ricko ,kaboum
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe
I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you’d hopefully be long gone by then.
Gods I could do a lot with just like two of those machines.
Hmmmm
The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don’t even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.
Release the meth heads on that copper
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
It’s pretty common for natural gas electric plants to use Brayton cycle turbines, which is the same thermodynamic cycle that the turbojet engines on airplanes use. But you can optimize the designs on the ground for efficiency (and zero thrust) instead of thrust-to-weight.
It’s also common to use “combined cycle” technology which mashes the Brayton cycle engine together with an older-style steam loop for extra efficiency.
After reading the article, I think they’re just saying they installed some miniaturized natural gas plants. I don’t think they’re literally running aircraft engines on the ground.
There’s at least one company that does tweak (iirc used) airliner turbofans by taking the fan part off so they just have the turbojet (which is already tuned to mostly generate rotational energy to drive the fan turbine rather than produce thrust itself) and use that to spin a generator. Obviously, it’s a bit more complicated than that in reality, but there are quite a lot of old engines no longer certified for flight out of an abundance of caution but that still work fine, and a market for high-power generators that don’t need to be the pinnacle of efficiency (originally as backups just for occasional use, and now because of AI companies caring only about speed and not about cost).
so much waste. why bother flying in your personal jet to burn the world down when you can just leave it idling on the ground?
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it’s one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
Not very common. Those engines are 50 years old and are only powered up a few times per year to stabilize the power grid as they can quickly scale up and down in contrast to nuclear, wind and solar.
Most countries do not use them as they are only about 30% efficient and loud. A modern gas power plant can reach double that efficiency.
