Big tech needs to build data centers in city areas where they can have "District Heating" by providing excess heat that heats water to distribute to the city buildings & residences. Buying up farmland for non-food producing ventures is destroying our future food supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
You would be amazed at how much gets ripped up and rebuilt in cities all the time. The idea would be to start with existing stock. A lot of cities have tons of vacant office space. Got a highrise? Make multiple floors your data center, all the piping can be run in interstitial space. The heat generated can be for the rest of the building or adjacent buildings. You can even run pipes under sidewalks to keep them from freezing in the winter. Many cities are doing this in very cold regions. Abandoned shopping malls are another opportunity. By the way, data centers won't be heavily staffed. A lot of highrise parking or shopping center parking can be freed up for non-tenant use.
Next, look at new construction. Big box stores going in? Put a data center under them. If a shopping district can have shops on ground level, with apartments above, why can't a data center be below it offering heat & hot water to the above ground uses? New construction would lend itself well to that.
It's a matter of looking at building in a different way. It's totally doable, you just need to get the people who want to conserve farm land and the architects who want to save the planet to team up against the mindset of every building needs it's own plot of land. This is totally something that can be incorporated into other projects, we just need to challenge ourselves to figure it out.
This the chips are worthless in 3 years is a misnomer. The chips still have value it's just that in 3years it is highly likely that the chips on the market will be better than chips being used today. However Moores law is starting to Peter out.
Yep. There are 10 year old GPU accelerators that are basically vaporware at this point. But the 5-6 year old ones are still useful for local LLMs. They do require some unusual adapters, but those are out there for sale, too. ~$400 gets you 24GB of VRAM at about 1/2 the cost of a new consumer GPU.
While you can tweak your "book value" depreciation schedule, all it does is inflate assets. When you turn over GPUs, you'll take any difference as a loss or a gain once final value is known.
And I wouldn't be surprised to find these previous gen AI machines finding their way into new, 2nd tier cloud operations or medium sized businesses in a few years.
"billionaire Stephen Ross, and one of its vice presidents is married to Michigan's Secretary of State who is now running for governor."
I've been calling for fraud investigation on these three witches for 8 years. Just another example. Especially Benson, blatant voter fraud, now this. Lock them up already. Cannot believe she even has the odacity to run for governor
Big tech needs to build data centers in city areas where they can have "District Heating" by providing excess heat that heats water to distribute to the city buildings & residences. Buying up farmland for non-food producing ventures is destroying our future food supply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
^This.
It’s a great idea but I don’t see how any city has the infrastructure for that aside from ripping up all the streets and adding new piping
You would be amazed at how much gets ripped up and rebuilt in cities all the time. The idea would be to start with existing stock. A lot of cities have tons of vacant office space. Got a highrise? Make multiple floors your data center, all the piping can be run in interstitial space. The heat generated can be for the rest of the building or adjacent buildings. You can even run pipes under sidewalks to keep them from freezing in the winter. Many cities are doing this in very cold regions. Abandoned shopping malls are another opportunity. By the way, data centers won't be heavily staffed. A lot of highrise parking or shopping center parking can be freed up for non-tenant use.
Next, look at new construction. Big box stores going in? Put a data center under them. If a shopping district can have shops on ground level, with apartments above, why can't a data center be below it offering heat & hot water to the above ground uses? New construction would lend itself well to that.
It's a matter of looking at building in a different way. It's totally doable, you just need to get the people who want to conserve farm land and the architects who want to save the planet to team up against the mindset of every building needs it's own plot of land. This is totally something that can be incorporated into other projects, we just need to challenge ourselves to figure it out.
Id rather they build some data centers in some farmland than not have ai. Once theyre built youre allowed to upgrade the chips OP
Oh no, whatever would we do without all those em dashes.
This the chips are worthless in 3 years is a misnomer. The chips still have value it's just that in 3years it is highly likely that the chips on the market will be better than chips being used today. However Moores law is starting to Peter out.
Yep. There are 10 year old GPU accelerators that are basically vaporware at this point. But the 5-6 year old ones are still useful for local LLMs. They do require some unusual adapters, but those are out there for sale, too. ~$400 gets you 24GB of VRAM at about 1/2 the cost of a new consumer GPU.
While you can tweak your "book value" depreciation schedule, all it does is inflate assets. When you turn over GPUs, you'll take any difference as a loss or a gain once final value is known.
And I wouldn't be surprised to find these previous gen AI machines finding their way into new, 2nd tier cloud operations or medium sized businesses in a few years.
Can't they sell the 3 y/o graphics cards to poor kids for video gaming?🤣😂
"billionaire Stephen Ross, and one of its vice presidents is married to Michigan's Secretary of State who is now running for governor."
I've been calling for fraud investigation on these three witches for 8 years. Just another example. Especially Benson, blatant voter fraud, now this. Lock them up already. Cannot believe she even has the odacity to run for governor
Joseph Gelfer - AI Populism is Coming But Not the Way Progressives Think
https://savageminds.substack.com/p/ai-populism-is-coming
I doubt they have the chips to build them.
Well how the hell else am I going to watch videos of cats playing tennis?
Water will be removed and used to cool the damn things. Must be stopped.