• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    It’s in one of the sunniest places in the US too. 6.0 kWh/m²/day of solar irradiance. There’s even already a relatively large solar farm in the same county.

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      If I were king they could run data centers with solar and fans. No outside power, no outside water.

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        You realize they are for sifting through the massive amount of surveillance data using AI right? They aren’t for ChatGPT. They are for categorizing and watching every person on the planet 1984 style.

        • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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          that’s my biggest worry, more data centers won’t lower the cost of LLM tokens.

          The only reason they want so much compute power is to have AI agents watching and annotating everything flock cameras see.

          not just license plate readers (a raspberry pi could handle that). but everything.

          My paranoia is that in 5 years, if you protest, the police will come to arrest you with a long list of every “crime” you have committed: driving holding you phone, no seatbelt, a recipt flew out of your pockets… a long list of petty meaningless violations.

          and they’ll have that list for everyone.

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            They are already unpopular now. Wait till the pigs dive even deeper in popularity.

            They might convince the general population that the first amendment is not worth exercising, and instead we all neet to contemplate military style resistance.

            Nobody apparently wants to bring trouble to themselves as long as there is still anything left to hope for. However that calculus can change once the powers that be engineer a life even more glaringly worthless than it already is. Lots of people are quiet quitting or not having children already. That trend will accelerate even further.

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              7 days ago

              If ice killing random people on the street, on camera, multiple times, didn’t cross that line, a random construction site won’t do shit.