Kevin O’Leary Pleads With Locals to Allow His Massive Data Center If He Shrinks It Down to the Size of One Manhattan
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kevin-oleary-shrink-data-center
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kevin-oleary-shrink-data-center
47 Comments
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 158 pts · 42d
Fuck you O'Leary.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 42d
I still haven’t forgiven him for The Learning Company and Brøderbund.
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 41d
He really pumped and dumped Softkey/TLC on Mattel. From $4.2B in 1999 to selling the whole thing off for $27.3M in 2000. I wouldn't be surprised if this is another one of his "ride the valuation wave" schemes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 40d
He has a perfect record of losing investor money. His O'Leary fund underperformed for years before it was sold off and shut down. He's a nothing burger.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 73 pts · 42d
Don't ask what a data center can do for you, ask what YOU can do for a data center
Steve@communick.news · 49 pts · 42d
For anyone curious, Manhattan is just under 23 square miles (59 square kilometers)
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 42d
Which is roughly
10971 football fields
3933333 parking spots
14640199 king size beds
5624404194 iPhone 12s or
7994579946 chocolate bars
#AnythingButMetric #Im32DonutsTall
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 42d
Are we talking regular parking spots, or Costco parking spots? And what kind of chocolate bars?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 42d
Regular and Almond Joy.
chocrates@piefed.world · 9 pts · 42d
This is America, how many burgers?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 42d
Between two and three trillion.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 42d
Roughly 1 Bermuda
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 42d
The biggest standard rack I could find has the dimensions of 19 inches wide, 90 inches tall, 47.2 inches deep. Height isn't super important for floor usage, so a rack takes up 896.8 square inches or
74.736.2 square feet. A 4U server chassis holds roughly 10 drives, and can fit 12 chasses in a 48U rack.This datacenter can hold a maximum of
8,580,264130,398,967 racks holding1,029,631,68015,647,876,040 drives. Assuming 4TiB drives, that's a total of3.8468.82 Zebibytes of data. The entirety of the Internet has roughly 148.23 Zebibytes.This new, smaller datacenter will hold approximately
2.56%46.43% of all the data in the world.Edited for accuracy
r4venw@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 42d
I dont want to be that guy but 896.8 square inches is actually 6.22 square feet
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 42d
No you're totally right, I didn't do math correctly. It's way bigger
4am@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 42d
There are 4U server cases that hold 77 3.5” hard drives, and you could rig up empty cases with NAND of various forms and get even more density, if you could keep cooling under control.
Also, most datacenters will not use 4TB disks, you would use giant 20TB enterprise disks (for spinning rust) or 8TB enterprise SAS or nVME drives. You will lose some of that capacity to redundancy though, as RAID and region replication takes place.
So total capacity, minus disk first losses (so *0.85 as a rule of thumb) and then divide by the redundancy (probably / 3)
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 42d
Realistically there's going to be a mixture of cpu compute, gpu compute, storage, and general purpose. I feel like 10 drives per chassis is a decent average, and I intentionally used 4TiB to illustrate this truly absurd proposal.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 42d
I hope he loses his wealth for this.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 42d
Sure, but he wont. That's not how money works for these people.
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app · 32 pts · 42d
Live in the data center you fucking cock
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 42d
I hope the Mormons tear him limb from limb
miraclerandy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 41d
I grew up Mormon and have family in Utah. From what I’ve experienced with our current leader, their morals are all expendable for politics. The multiple affairs and way he talks about women should’ve been enough for them based on their beliefs but they still love him.
They will do the same here. As long as rich people say it’s good, they’ll destroy their environment for them in the spirit of “prosperity”.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
Fair but they used to be violent AF and tribal. Weird because the Department of War just snubbed them by leaving them off the list of recognized “Christian” sects
The_Helmet_Stays_On@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 42d
No
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 24 pts · 42d
Eat shit, Kevin.
mereo@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 42d
If the US had a long term vision and totally embraced renewable energy, it wouldn't have this problem.
ech@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 42d
It'd be better, but selling that much land for this bullshit is still unconscionable.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 42d
They shouldn't even be letting him breath. The debate should be do billionaires deserve to live. Fuck their data centers. Exterminate the enemy.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 42d
I hope he has a long healthy life being poor enough to barely survive.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 42d
How much land could the public possibly need? You already have one Manhattan!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 42d
Utah doesn't, though, and that's where he's proposing building it.
I'm actually slightly surprised that there's still any part of Utah and non-Vegas Strip Nevada NOT owned by the Mormon church left tbh..
Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
Utah has lost more than you think, they just have the whole system rigged to their advantage and a good chunk of the populace willing to do anything for them. I wish they all realized how much these Christians in this movement hate them though. If they actually were to succeed in bringing themselves of any other targets they would go after Mormons instantly
felixthecat@fedia.io · 3 pts · 41d
Utah is actually majority owned by the us govt.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 42d
Kevin, if you shrank it to 90% the size of a normal penis you could make use of all that extra room in your underwear for it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 41d
One of the most obnoxious, punch-worthy pieces of human filth alive on the planet today. And that's really saying something cuz he's got some serious competition.
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 41d
We need to stop giving this cunt attention or reaction. Let him fade away in a bucket of piss.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 41d
Actually, that's a good idea - could someone please dissolve Kevin in a bucket of acid and then add piss to it. Thanks.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 40d
We measuring land area in "Manhattans" now?
Anything but metric!
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 40d
How many Mahattans to one Wales?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 40d
~0.36
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 36d
That seems wrong to me. Manhattan is 0.28% the size of Wales.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
Not according to Wikipedia 🤷♂️
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 34d
According to Wikipedia:
Manhattan = 33.59 square miles
Wales = 8,192 square miles
I was using inconsistent measurements before, but that still makes Manhattan 0.41% the area of Wales.
GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 41d
Ah yes let's continue to build water-hungry infrastructure in states like Arizona and Utah where the water just flows oh so freely. Maybe we can see if we can get data centre induced subsidence to make Salt Lake City further below sea level than New Orleans! Climate change challenge - who will win? Kevin O'Shetbag can host it.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 40d
Utah is under a severe drought and is currently on fire. But yeah sure, let’s build a data center the size of manhattan that will use as much water and electricity as the whole fucking state.
I’m gna laugh when these data centers get taken out by fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Because, you know, data centers are basically indestructible.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 41d
As a Canadian, I'm sorry for this cuntholio.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 40d
He's now American, we scraped this shit off our shoe years ago.
slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 41d