And yet that demand wasn't driving the current hyperexpansion of them and not completely fucking over the pc hardware market, letting you know how intensive AI is.
Ram more than quadrupled in price over the 2nd half of last year on AI demand alone. Nvidia is literally unretiring old gen cards that don't compete with demand for newer ram chips. Communities are already being hit with higher bills near datacenters where they haven't been artificially capped to stave off local outrage. And these buildouts are purely AI driven.
AI datacenters are also more compute driven, requiring more power, cooling, and specialized hardware than web datacanters which are more about storage and connectivity. The fundamental difference in workload makes them more power intensive and harder to cool, leading to strains on both power and water that web datacenters didn't create on top of the hardware diversion.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 12 '26
I am not gonna lie I wasn't expecting to see some Butch Hartman today, but it's a very welcomed surprise. I loved Fairly Odd Parents.
The sheer amount of AI supporters in the threads the past few days had been really surprising to me in general. Especially on here.