According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.
Didn’t forget draining all their drinking water. Violating everyone’s copyright. Driving teens to suicide. Giving terrible medical advice. And Generating csam.
The water things still baffles me. Like…just…cycle it. It’s a heat exchange system.
What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it? Why can’t they repurpose it? Why can’t they use gray water?
I don’t get it but that’s likely a me problem.
Evaporative cooling. They’re trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they’re cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.
The amount of heat generated is so large they can’t properly cool it with a closed loop system.
And clean water just reduces duct maintenance costs.
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I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system.
Not the other things, though.
Except the ones feeling the hurt the most are the little guys
Agreed.
One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad.
My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we’ll have one good thing, whilst if we don’t, we’ll have nothing good at all.