• James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    Does anyone actually know the stated purpose of this project? It surely can’t just be for LLMs but I haven’t been able to find anything.

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      23 hours ago

      Based on what Oleary said in his interview with Tucker Carlson, he doesn’t have a tenant yet. So billionaires are building these datacenters with the expectation that hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Microsoft will be renting that compute from them.

      Will that actually come to fruition in a way that justifies the billions invested? I guess we will see.

    • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s weird that it’s difficult to identify. But there already is an NSA data center in utah, so maybe it is for the us government. You would think someone would have learned their lesson on how that one turned out?

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      3 days ago

      The only way this kind of massive facility can be profitable is if its builders expect to use it to steal the jobs of legions of white collar workers. That’s literally the only way this is profitable.