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2025-12-05 Cyber

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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Posted by badanov 2025-12-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1779 views ] Top

1 Reminds me of the ~2000 frenzy to lay dark fiber.
"We'll need it sometime!" Then IBM came up with the multi-freq fiber transmitter.
Some fiber is still dark.

A little later everybody and their brother was building web host data centers. That ended with the development of the dense racks of blade servers that operated at room temp.

Once the Von Neumann bottleneck architecture was broken, CPUs got very fast.

Remember blockchain?
look at the amount of money and talent that is going into … the next big thing," he continued, pointing out how investors are pouring resources into whatever could reshape society.

Tough to move at the speed of technological innovation.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-05 10:13|| 2025-12-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

2 AI Data Centers Are Wreaking Havoc On Local Communities Across America

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-12-05 11:44|| 2025-12-05 11:44|| Front Page Top

3 #1 Too many people with Comp. Sci. degree?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-12-05 11:57|| 2025-12-05 11:57|| Front Page Top

4 All the ex coal miners and former Journolists that learned to Code? Naaaahhhhh

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-05 13:33|| 2025-12-05 13:33|| Front Page Top

5 Was told by somebody who knows such things that municipal size power generator orders are at least 3 years out on account of the data centers' purchases.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-12-05 14:37|| 2025-12-05 14:37|| Front Page Top

6 Nobody's talking about the accumulative impact EMF dangers to the surrounding areas.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-05 15:50|| 2025-12-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

7 the accumulative impact EMF dangers to the surrounding areas.

Like when the EMF causes an ant colony to mutate and they start evolving faster and become sentient and before you know it, it's Ants vs Humans in a battle for Earth.

Posted by SteveS 2025-12-05 15:59|| 2025-12-05 15:59|| Front Page Top

8 Well, my point was the high probability of invasive cancers, high frequency hearing loss, etc. ala the Havana Syndrome.

Comprehensive Guide: Safeguarding Against Havana Syndrome With Emf Protection, Neurotoxin Avoidance, And Health Management

But sure, ants.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-05 16:38|| 2025-12-05 16:38|| Front Page Top

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-05 19:10|| 2025-12-05 19:10|| Front Page Top

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