As I was using LLMs at work (I never use LLMs for personal projects), a question occurred to me:
What in the fuck are these new data centers supposed to actually do?
The enterprise users are all in on having LLMs write 300% of the code. And yet, both OpenAI and Anthropic are still giving these “$200 gets you $10 000 in API costs” subscriptions to every victim of AI psychosis.
Why do we have RAM, hard disk, SSD, GPU and CPU shortages and no “token shortage”?
I mean, we all know the answer, these are the offerings for the robot god, but like how in the fuck are they still obtaining loans for this shit?
Paying contractors
Im like 99% sure those are the only people profiting here. Data center electricians make bank to do mostly brain dead copy-paste underground
Basically the sole silver lining I see in our slopocalypse is that some portion of the fortunes being incinerated is moving money from finance parasites back to actual people. Some of it.
An electrician acquaintance of mine was on a gig early in the year essentially building open-air server racks that were then covered with huge tents, a la Tesla’s long-standing “temporary” structure in Fremont. I would never have believed him if he hadn’t taken pictures and video.