I hear you. You missed the hole in the ozone layer though.

I blame the parents

Fair enough, I didn’t realise they were so different from traditional DC’s.

Well that’s one way to speed run environmental catastrophe.

Sorry to burst your bubble but DC’s aren’t going anywhere. Even if we are in a position to make quantum computers commercially available in the next 10 years they’ll still need to be housed somewhere, powered, cooled and connected.

Besides, quantum computers are great at complex calculations and simulations but you wouldn’t use them to host a website or a VPS. They’ll be hideously expensive so will only be used for the specific workloads that they excel at and everything else will done with the same servers we have now.

I’ve never seen a data centre with a chimney stack. This must be an American thing.

Just because you and your friends don’t use it, doesn’t mean it isn’t being used. If 95% of AI is useless then why are hardware prices so high? The demand must’ve dropped off by now if all the hardware they bought to date is going unused, because why would they be buying more?

Companies are definitely using AI, and not just as chatbots. I use it everyday as a search tool, to manipulate data and perform other tasks which saves me time because I no longer have to do it manually.

Most mid-large sized companies have terabytes or even petabytes of data that their AI tools are reasoning over, which requires more than the processing power of your small local model running on a Mac Mini.

I don’t disagree with you that it is impacting other industries and consumers, but as long as customers have a use for it and are willing to pay, the AI industry will continue.

Many companies operate without making a profit, sometimes it’s because they aren’t making enough money and sometimes they invest it back into the business.

Regardless, SpaceX is about to go public with a valuation of $1.8 trillion, and they arent profitable.

The fact that the major players are still in business means someone thinks so.

They aren’t artificially creating this problem, they are inadvertently creating this problem.

AI companies need RAM and other compute components to feed the AI beast which drives up demand, and cost but reduces supply for everyone, including their Xbox and Surface divisions.

Given their enterprise divisions make vastly more money than their consumer divisions, nothing will change.

Another low-effort, inaccurate meme. A true comparison would be if you replaced the first screenshot with an image of someone clicking the update button.

I don’t mind criticising Windows but go after the genuine reasons for moving to Linux. No spyware, no AI forced on you etc.

This is America, wouldn’t it be easier just to buy a gun? I get that 3D printers can make ghost guns that aren’t traceable but how many crimes have occurred where that is the murder weapon?

Nice! I should’ve thought of that.

And half of would’ve been used for the supports.

All of those things are already being done by the wealthy, they don’t need AI for that.

If all they are asking for is an age, just put in ‘69’ and be done with it.

Proving your age is a different story. I’m not holding up my driver’s license during an OS install.

There is a difference between “Nvidia isn’t selling cards to China” and “nobody in China has an Nvidia card”.

Plenty of stock would be going to China, just not directly.