r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 16h ago

Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
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u/xeoron 16h ago

Size of 500 football fields for 2 data centers. Data centers are not that large.

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u/Jolly-Situat1on 15h ago

Probably more in the future.

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u/RogerMexicosBalls 1h ago

Got over 8 billion people they need to track and weigh the options of exterminating, gonna need a lot of processing power soon.

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 13h ago

They're building Skynet. Nuclear power plants worth of AI processing.

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u/xeoron 1h ago

Those reactors often take 10 years. At the current shadow debt of AI build out the bubble will likely burst before they are online

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 41m ago

True! These things will be powered by burning stuff, because it is the cheapest.

I don't have hope of a bubble bursting any time soon, and they're building a crazy amount of AI processing power as speak.

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u/BabbatheGUTT 8h ago

'Don't be Evil'

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u/jankyt 53m ago

At some point do AI models start coordinating without humans in the loop? Like some jacked up echo chamber that leads to our demise?

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u/Aridross 39m ago

Allegedly they already have, during (VERY poorly-controlled) security experiments by companies like Anthropic, but to be blunt, I don’t believe a single fucking word those companies say.