Quick timeline…
- 2022: ChatGPT launches, and presumably, AI companies would have already been forecasting as to their energy needs over the next 5-10 years
- 2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.
- 2025: DJT takes office, promptly eviscerates EPA and regulators rit large
- 2026: Data centers run amok
Guess we now know why…
I keep thinking how we were told to conserve energy and water for decades just to see these data centers suck it all up and then some.
We as humans allowing this shit to go down is crazy to me.
I have little say in the matter.
Maybe a self driving Tesla will smash into the data center
I don’t think you understand how big these data centers are. They are the size of entire cities. A Tesla crash would have the effect of a single car crash in Manhattan.
I think you may be underestimating the size of cities. Even San Francisco, famously small for a major city, is 15 times (at approx. 30k acres) the size of the physically largest data center in the US (Switch Reno Tahoe) at 2,000 acres. That’s still just 1/7th the size of Manhattan.
I won’t argue that 2,000 acres isn’t huge for a data center, but just trying to put numbers to the argument.
Better to hit the substation supplying it.
Substations are full of oil-cooled power transformers.
Oil-cooled power transformers are large, obvious targets that can be permanently disabled by a single hit from a decently powerful rifle, even at great distance (all you have to do is punch a hole in it and let the oil leak out so it overheats), and they’re expensive and time-consuming to replace.
Just saying…
There was an incident a few years back where someone shot one up to cut power for a gay bar or some such other harmless thing. They never did find the person who did it.
If only such power could be used for good…
I hear there’s thousands of Cybertrucks just sitting around. Seems like a good use for them.
Besides, you just have to hit the important bits. Power, Network, Cooling.
Someone needs to hack every Tesla and drive them into the nearest data centre.
That’s what AI is for, get working on it!
If the battery cooks off inside the data center, it will do some damage. The amount of water that will be required to put it out will do even more damage.
How many teslas can we get to that location is the real question
