If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

@monsieuricon

Yes, and well how are all those datacenters (and/or Amazon nuclear power plants) protected against foreign missiles?

@mcepl You don't need power plants, just the pipe bringing the water in for cooling.

@monsieuricon

??? How come you don't need more power? Those computers donโ€™t run on water โ€ฆ

@mcepl @monsieuricon taking down the cooling of a data center at a minimum will cripple its ability to function as equipment overheats and shuts down. Depending on how badly overheated the equipment gets you could end up with destroyed hardware and even fires in the data center.

Taking down power infrastructure would force the data center to use local backup power generation but otherwise keep running. It would also likely cause a lot of collateral harm