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Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.

The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals, and doled out multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers in recent months – some as high as $100m – to fast-track work on machines that could outthink humans on many tasks, a concept known as “super-intelligence” or “artificial general intelligence”.

Its first multi-gigawatt data center, dubbed Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, while another, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over the coming years, Zuckerberg said.

“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO said.

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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

Complete delusion. There's nowhere for them to build this kind of thing, no municipality with the infrastructure to support it, and the cost would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars just to APPROXIMATE building it. This is just more billionaire propaganda to normalize the technology and the data centers when they """tone it down"" to an actually realistically achievable scale.

Bait used to be believable SMH my head.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Who is going to sacrifice their water supply for that thing?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Fuck the Zuck, he sucks.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

He looks like Woody Allen.

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

guess hes another megalomaniac. so none of the billionaires would be marginally better than trump. ugh....

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Suck will fuck this up to. Also there isn’t enough generators available for all of these data centers. They are at least a decade out from full integration. It’s all bullshit.

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

"DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said Meta was investing aggressively in AI as the technology has already boosted its ad business by allowing it to sell more ads and at higher prices."

All this to... Sell more ads.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i'm still waiting for metaverse

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a "virtual reality" that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an 'avatar' was.

That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Maybe the NEXT update will have Legs™️, for real this time, guys!

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How's the Metaverse coming, Zuck? Remember how your company was going to dump tens of billions of dollars into developing that digital hellhole?

What a damp pube.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The sad thing is they really did spend tens of billions on metaverse and all they have to show is that emoji art looking Zuck

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

The free market is truly the most optimal system.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

Nah, that's just what Zuck looks like.

[–] logi@piefed.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago

Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

If it was really all that, Zuck wouldn't be trying to sell it to us, he'd be hoarding it jealously and worshipping its very outputs like the second coming of some Lovecraftian deity.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

can we please refer to him as his internet name?

Fuckerberg.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You misspelled "blow up all that sweet data".

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. Putting all their eggs in a single basket like that is just begging an antagonist to bomb the fuck out of them in any future conflict.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 day ago

I believe you misspelled "Butlerian Jihad".

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Look, all Zuck knows or cares about is that it's going to be really warm up on top, and he can slither up there to soak up some of the heat

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.

Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I totally knew why that specific Dam was relevant, but for those lemmings that don't, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest power plant in the world.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Another comparison is that a "standard" US reactor will output 1GW of power at steady state.

This data center would require 7000 nuclear reactors, just for it. The US current has 98 active reactors.

We are a ways away.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prometheus & Hyperion are apt names for the first AI datacenters to gain conscience and create a firm called Skylabs.

By doing this they enable and spark up the Terminator ™ timeline.

Zuck is such a tool.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I know it’s a joke, but those fancy word-autocomplete algorithms will never gain conscience. Like, never.

A plush toy would have better chances.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 12 points 1 day ago

Remember when Zuck the Fuck thought everybody would be flocking to his Metaverse of legless apparitions stuck right at the bottom of the uncanny valley?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 1 day ago

"Now I know what you're all thinking: But Zuck, will you have enough water and electricity to run this? Don't worry folks, we'll have plenty! ...You won't have any though. Sacrifices for my greater good are honorable and necessary! Be proud to be roadkill on my highway to even more obscene wealth that I absolutely in no universe deserve or need!"

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know what? Do it. I want one of these guys to actually built one of these mega data centres. If we're going to ruin the environment anyway, we might as well encourage the billionaires to bankrupt themselves at the same time.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Billionaires will never go broke. They own the whole system.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Probably building in middle of desert to. Since the land is cheap. Data center that size how much water would it need? Not like us humans need that for drinking.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

As long as he pays for the hamsters food so they can power it, fine.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just started watching Mad Men (yeah serious omission until now).

The Zuck looks a lot like the biggest assholes in the show.

Sorry I have nothing serious to add. It's not like he can be taken seriously anymore, on any level.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Build it in Hawaii, on top of your stupid bunker ya zarkin frood.

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He's already there, he's your problem now. Do something about it!!

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If i lived in Hawaii I would. I just don't want to see the US fuck the Hawaiian islands more than it already has.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's not the US, it's a billionaire, and that's why I said build it on his own giant mansion bunker that is already there. I'm with you, you're just not getting it.

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

Maybe we can put them both at the bottom of the ocean.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

More wasted resources for the pipe dreams of a rich boy.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

Another Torment Nexus, huh?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

Someone should stop this