SoftBank Group is prepping to build a new AI data center in Ohio that could reach 10 GW of power demand and cost $30 billion to $40 billion for the computing infrastructure and a further $33 billion for a natural gas power plant, reports Bloomberg.
When completed, the new site could be one of the largest AI data centers ever built. Furthermore, it will be powered by one of the world’s largest fleets of gas turbines, equivalent to the energy supply of nine nuclear reactors.
I don’t get it. $70-80 billion for an AI data center, plus continued investment for hardware upgrades - how are they planning on making money from this?
I get that we’re in a bubble but I’ve never seen this level of collective delusion/desperation before in the tech space.
They’re not.
I want to be clear; they want to and expect to make money from this. But they have no plan for how to.
Right now absolutely no one in the data centre industry can figure out the math for how to make a profit. But because everyone else is building data centres, they’re all just assuming that someone else has figured it out and they don’t want to miss the boat.
The emperor wears no clothes.
Well, let’s fire 30 million white collar employees and charge $1k/year for an AI replacement. That’s $30 billion a year every year!
We really need to shut this shit down
My Frontpage on Lemmy is now currently telling me that we’re on the brink of a terrible energy crisis due to the Iran war. And then this.
This Japanese corporation who appears to be harmless in comparison to other tech corporations with overtly hostile intentions…
I think companies are maybe preparing for the Compute as a Service thing, but I don’t think it will work.
Surly they have EMP protection, right?
I can think of one good way to find out.
While the rest of the country is rapidly crumbling, at least we know some gigantic Corp is doing everything they can to hasten our demise for their profit
Piketon is radioactive and toxic to live near there due is longterm role preparing radioactive materials for profit. I wouldn’t feel comfortable even driving through that town. I’m not sure if that makes it a good place for a datacenter or not.
More bit flips, then?
The bridge to true AI.
Sounds like the people building and running the thing will stand out like sore thumbs
If anything, it might be a good idea just to keep protestors away.
Maybe the protestos should just erect big “radioactive contaminated area” signs on the main roads if it’s really that bad.
Gross.
It’s gonna be weird when a lot of people switch to using local models…
Yep, I don’t even really like these things, but ollama is a docker container away and the models work just fine on my several year old AMD laptop GPU.
That’s one of the reason they’re gobbling up all GPU and RAM. They don’t want local models being viable to most people.
Gee, I hope there isn’t a major spike in energy prices next month…
I believe williams is the LNG supplier and they will have this off the network of regular LNG. It will be on its own.
