• Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    So you are saying, there are humans in these facilities we could target to disable those systems?

    They decided to work for the clankers. They chose to be targets.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Well a data center itself does not exclusively host the computing infrastructure used for ai.

      The components that run Lemmy live in a data center. The EFF hosts their content from a data center. Telecommunications that make up the internet host equipment in data centers.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        I thought we were talking specifically about recently built data centers for majority use by AI companies

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          2 months ago

          They typically don’t just build 'em for AI. Data centers are general purpose buildings. They provide power, cooling, security, floorspace. What goes into 'em doesn’t change anything. You can stuff computers in there that are used for cancer research, cryptomining, AI, ecommerce, it doesn’t matter.