Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manhattan
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manhattan
16 Comments
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au · 15 pts · 1y
I feel like this is similar to how Stalin and Hitler really liked to envision massive fighting machines the size of buildings. "If APC < tank < bigger tank, then I just need to build THE BIGGEST TANKS." It's like some kind of disease that infects people who aren't actually doing any of the engineering, just overseeing it, and then taking the most simple minded shortcut they can think to how to make everything more "winning."
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
It's already happening. Llama 4's release wasn't just a mess, but a dishonest one they cheated at/lied about. They fired a bunch of researchers, are shuffling teams around to focus more on 'products,' and seem to be hiring on Tech Bros instead.
In other words, the dysfunction is well underway. Which is kinda sad, actually, as the Llama team basically pioneered locally runnable LLMs (as opposed to AI Bro API models) with pretty lean resource access.
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 1y
Absolutely! We need less water and more emissions!
mintiefresh@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Hey yo, there are homeless people out there. Why we building AI centers this big lol
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Why.
Carvex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Leave room for nature.
Leave room for nature.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
you can see all the nature you want in the metaverse - some rich cunt
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
We zoomed by that fifty years ago
silver13@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
The fact that as long as you have enough money you can pollute as much and consume as much ressources as you want is basically the core issue with capitalism. Its like having an ongoing oil fire in your yard and nobody is stopping you as long as you can buy new oil.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
The 5gw project reported to be in Louisiana. That is a state that essentially forbids solar, so energy supply is a big question. Solar is only possible energy supply deployable by 2026. LA has highest per capita electricity use already because of heavy FF industry (42% of electricity consumption) and relatively little people. LA already is a net importer of electricity. 120gwh/day would be about half of current LA electricity consumption.
simsalabim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Politicians paid to love and protect NG. NG industry has all of the money.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I really hope it doesn't blow up
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
AI is so great, I use it for . . . on . . . well, . . .
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 2 pts · 1y
Why don’t people block all Meta properties at the network level via IP addresses and/or DNS? Where do you think the funds to pay for this come from?
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 364d
https://altmedia.house/post/69659