These “makeshift” structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.

“Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation.”

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    Please stop using AI, please.

    If you’re required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.

    I beg of you.

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    OVH started putting up data centers made with wood and cheap materials in Europe. They had a major fire at one of them.

    Half assed designs have their own issues.

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      Might be the same structure, but Meta confirms they’re doing exactly this:

      Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the strategy of pitching tents and filling them with AI servers last year. It seems that he wanted the infrastructure to come online quickly while demand for compute is increasing exponentially.

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    Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties

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    Has there been an environmental study in these makeshift camps? If these were homeless, we’d placate drug use, bulldoze them to vacate the camps. What. The. Fuck.

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    jet engines

    AI

    How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁

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    Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?

    We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?

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      Was thinking this too. They probably won’t even relocate them as it’s more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility

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        Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute

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    Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?

    Interesting.