🮶Esphoren🏳️‍⚧️🮵May 14
ana «model a7m2» 🎶
capitalism has created the perfect villain in datacenters. massive resource usage, incompatible with any other activity, and zero discernible benefits to anyone. no notes
May 14 at 1:09amWeb
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
we might not be able to agree on anything else but we can agree that we all hate datacenters
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
given that, they're surprisingly vulnerable and hard to defend. they really haven't thought this through
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
the level that our opposition is at is like "what if wile e coyote had a billion dollars and owned the acme corporation outright"
Show threadbovazMay 14
@ana I was expressing similar sentiments a few minutes ago with friends. More specifically, I was pointing out that the demarcation between "good" servers/server farms and these hellspawned datacenters may be hard to properly define legally, so the best solution is to give me a large hammer and total impunity.
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 14
@ana as a girl who wants to run a smol cloud for girls, I need a dc. just not a stupoid hyperscaler AI one
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
@freya we need girls who are datacenters and datacenters who are girls
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 14
@ana agdftjhngffdsdsgfd that just describes girls who are AIs doesn't it?
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
@freya nothing artificial about it, just girls
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 14
@ana awawawawawawa
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 14
@ana meeeee
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 14
@ana this one needs a DC full of Dell servers
Show threadana «model a7m2» 🎶May 14
@freya yesss
Show threadtichoMay 14
@ana @freya Are there boy datacenters, girl datacenters and maybe also datacenters that are somewhere-in-between? 🤨
Show threadLinda Rose SmitMay 14
@ana all posting our hate on social media…
Show threadJack's Countless Lack of CoolMay 14
@ana It's the culmination of the Turd on a Wire project. A self-licking ice cream cone, which contains neither cone nor ice cream.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMay 14

@ana

...says a person posting on an electronic platform hosted in a data centre...

Show threadHakeemGMay 14

@ana

I'm pretty far left and I will never understand this obsession with anti-capitalism. I don't love the capitalism we have in America, but that's because of the corruption and crony capitalism.

I can't think of a non capitalist country that's doing well though, and the countries with the highest quality of life are indeed capitalist countries.

Show threadcrzwdjk ✅ May 14
@ana I especially love the part where they're using noisy and polluting jet engines to power some of them.
Show threadPierre CarrierMay 14
@ana Afraid starlite.rodeo is served by DigitalOcean (and rrier.fr Hetzner). Infrastructure in office closets often leads to more waste (under the weight limitations of the building, cooling difficulties, etc.) and often worse uptime than the next levels of scale (redundancies in peering, power delivery, cooling, 24x7 on-site technicians become worthwhile, etc.). I think they're a good choice for the lifestyles we're actively choosing as a system that works for our service providers, small or big.
Show threadJonah GibberishMay 14
@ana um, war is kinda the og that makes datacenters look like kids toys
Show threadSimon ZerafaMay 14

@ana

Massive structures unprepared for ariel attack by relatively inexpensive UCAV's and FOV drones.

I wonder if the investors in these data centres realise they, one day, might be paying for wide area and point defence systems 😟🤷‍♂️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo

Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain

The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.

BBC News
Show threadAnn AnnasMay 14

@ana
That whole viral tweet about how Captain Planet villains seemed too on the nose but here we fucking are was a little too early for AI but it fits AI better than it does crypto

At least with crypto the pollution buys people drugs
Here it's all to make awful unsecure tech debt ridden code and tell people to put glue in their pizza sauce

Show threadcalvin 🛋️ May 14
@ana Do you think, at the end of it all, the datacenters can be turned into like hockey rinks, or convention centers or something? Or are they completely useless?
Show threadBaloo UrizaMay 14
@ana The abandoned datacenter raves in the mid to late 2030s are gonna be fucking unchained though.