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.
Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck
You misspelled “blow up all that sweet data”.
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.
I believe you misspelled “Butlerian Jihad”.
“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.
guess hes another megalomaniac. so none of the billionaires would be marginally better than trump. ugh…
Who is going to sacrifice their water supply for that thing?
Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.
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?
This is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fuck the Zuck, he sucks.
He looks like Woody Allen.
can we please refer to him as his internet name?
Fuckerberg.
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.
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.
Billionaires will never go broke. They own the whole system.
The AI place I work at is about 10 kwatts/sqft. Times 636 hundred million sqft (Manhattan ) = almost 7 Terawatts. Not gonna happen.
Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.
Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.
I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.
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.
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.
Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.
Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.
US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.
Completely ridiculous.
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
