Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit size limits
Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit size limits
As data centers grow in size, connecting multiple sites for a single training run may soon be necessary.
CCleaner, do your stuff!
11Infinite growth meets finite world.
144While I'm still libertarian, those are supposed to be the people capable of using resources efficiently to maintain their market position, right? And the existing legislation's effect on that mechanism is supposed to be negligible, right?
So those supposedly sane at directing resources people are basically burning as much energy as they can get for lossy compression of datasets in random ways trying to reach a gold vein.
I think something went off track here.
-53"I'm libertarian" followed by an assumption like businesses are "supposed to" do anything except make money and bump their stock prices by any means necessary. Yep, checks out.
Businesses are horribly inefficient due to their short term thinking. Efficiency is a marshmallow test. Doing things right in hopes of making $150 tomorrow will always be tossed out in favout of a garunteed $100 right now, doing it fast and dirty. The idea that businesses are naturally incentivized to do x because of market forces is bullshit if x is anything other than whatever makes the most money right now.
They send our natural resources to the other side of the world so slaves can turn them into goods that they ship right back to us. Efficiency is an expense that businesses are often incentivized to avoid when doing it wrong is cheaper.
If you want businesses to do anything but chase short term profits as ruthlessly as they can get away with, you need regulations.
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Perhaps if they deleted all of the unnecessary user data they've collected they'd be able to consolidate it down to something reasonable
5Ah yes, the "when brute force isn't working you ain't using enough of it" approach to AI.
64Given their AI ambitions, a solution could be building data centers in multiple locations to avoid overloading any one region’s power grid. It would be technically challenging, but it may be necessary, Russinovich told Semafor.
“I think it’s inevitable, especially when you get to the kind of scale that these things are getting to,” he said. “In some cases, that might be the only feasible way to train them is to go across data centers, or even across regions,” he said.
Pretty interesting!
6Maybe the secret police storing exabytes of the entire global populations data, to enrich their cronies in tech and surveillance capitalism, should reallocate those resources to something that benefits instead of enslaves?
22AI is the biggest problem here
22Yeah, I'm sure the largest data harvester on the planet isn't consuming an enormous volume of energy or resources, and certainly isn't also using AI to exhaustively analyze those exabytes of data with its hundreds of billions in blank cheque funding.
I too love big brother!
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Just erased (really) that surveillance data, it will spare lots of memory for good goals. But they will go for more toys.
4Maybe the secret police
Are the secret police in the room here with you? Can you see them? Are they talking to you?
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I've been hearing a lot more interest in on site power generation, which would be nice except it will probably end up being natural gas.
3MS specifically is looking to fire up 3 mile island to power their AI datacenters. Yes, really.
8I keep hearing about micro nuclear reactors, and I hear there are some in testing in my general area (I'm in Utah, and I hear there are some projects in Wyoming and Idaho). So here's hoping that'll become a thing.
Also, solar panels should work pretty well. I'm thinking:
- solar -> batteries -> hydrogen
- hydrogen -> trucks and recharging batteries
So, basically like a massive UPS with some physical, local energy storage. Here's hoping these will become practical in the near future.
3I keep hearing about micro nuclear reactors
They are not becoming a thing and they are an asinine idea from the start. It's basically decentralizing something that can only profit from centralization as it requires massive amounts of infrastructure for safety and security reasons in each location.
Nuclear is the most expensive way to make electricity and that will not change anytime soon.
So, basically like a massive UPS with some physical, local energy storage. Here's hoping these will become practical in the near Future.
They are practical, and they are already being built.
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