Google keeps building tons of these ugly data centers that look like copies of Langley. Gone are the days where theres a quirky Bayside campus with fun colors and slides and shit.
These things are already disastrous. Theyre put in outskirts of medium cities and do not take any planning into consideration. These facilities employ well over a 1000 people in places with no transit. I drove past one on a workday morning on a road trip and the only way in was a single left turn lane across a state highway. Not a single aspect of AI crap has any essence of humanity considered. Just reckless, vapid nonsense.
What? Data centers employ barely anyone. They are hotels for computers. Most staff on site are security guards. Otherwise there is a rotating skeleton crew of people who unrack and rerack servers.
The whole goal is to have as little cost as possible and just make money from powered silicon.
Google keeps building tons of these ugly data centers that look like copies of Langley. Gone are the days where theres a quirky Bayside campus with fun colors and slides and shit.
These things are already disastrous. Theyre put in outskirts of medium cities and do not take any planning into consideration. These facilities employ well over a 1000 people in places with no transit. I drove past one on a workday morning on a road trip and the only way in was a single left turn lane across a state highway. Not a single aspect of AI crap has any essence of humanity considered. Just reckless, vapid nonsense.
What? Data centers employ barely anyone. They are hotels for computers. Most staff on site are security guards. Otherwise there is a rotating skeleton crew of people who unrack and rerack servers.
The whole goal is to have as little cost as possible and just make money from powered silicon.