• 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    The tech bros are dreaming that everybody will use cloud based AI for everything. And people will need tokens for that, so that’ll become the new currency.

    But there aren’t close to enough data centers to do that, or even enough under construction. They’re having racks in tents powered by jet engines now because building date centers is expensive and slow. Much slower than they’re hyping and certainly not enough to catch up with tech bro dreams.

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      15 hours ago

      not only that states are beginning to block some of the construction, the ones that havnt been completely bought off that is. they fear thier own eleciton seats, since both ds and rs hate the datacenters.

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      15 hours ago

      I wonder if it’s just a matter of time though.

      Remember how computers used to be as big as a room and even then only stored 2mbs back when they were new? But then became more portable and accessible? It makes me wonder if, in a few decades, it’d be possible that happens with data centers in the future.

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        12 hours ago

        We can’t do that though since we’re already at the edge of the atomic (physical) silicon etching size limit. So no more steady increases in power, or decreases in size, unlike the last 30 years where we could do both. My hot take is that silicon chips as they are now defined are already at the end of the road.

      • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        But in the same way we’re now carrying a supercomputer in a pocket or purse. And they’ll be a successor to LLM that’s much more efficient. Most likely every laptop or phone puts those data centers to shame in a few decades.

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          15 hours ago

          Wouldn’t that still eventually allow for an era(s) of monetizing token usage for universal applications? Even if it gets better over time and continuously replaces itself over decades

          • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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            15 hours ago

            Probably more for corporate use, digital autonomous companies and the like. If your home router is smart enough to do your taxes, you don’t need much cloud computing. Although tech firms will try to get everything turned into a cloud subscription of course.