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.”
jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
The author has clearly never seen Mad Max.
Yeah, this seems more like what you see on the outskirts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077; Mad Max people live in caves or rusted scrap structures and don’t even have computers aside from really smart dwarves.
Release the meth heads on that copper
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?
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.
Why wait for a tornado, be the tornado the people needs
Gods I could do a lot with just like two of those machines.
Hmmmm
Rocket artillery is surprisingly easy to make at home, if you have enough potassium nitrate and PVC pipe
I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you’d hopefully be long gone by then.
A lot of this is because they don’t need as many permits for “temporary” structures.
Uses jet engines for power?
Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.
This is fairly common I think. In Belgium it’s one of the back-up plans in case of power shortage. (article)
God this page is mobile cancer, even with an adblocker
Works like a charm on mobile without javascript.
Yup, Tom’s is the last of the originals still running (HardOCP, anandtech and sharkyexteme are all gone), but it’s absolutely a garbage site now.
In Chrome, choose reading mode. Generally works to strip all the bs.
Does this somehow get around local building codes?
Probably not however when you are rich, you can do anything.
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
Either way, I bet they are “cut-able” and have lots of expensive metals inside
They are self igniting :)
So they’re using gasoline to run jet engines that rotate turbines that generate electricity? wtf
Article about this: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites
Not unusual in the slightest. They’re often used as peaking plants that fire up when energy prices are driven high enough by demand. Can be setup to run on all sorts of different fuels.
This isn’t for power peaks, it’s for a temporary data center. There is nothing usual about it.
Oh yeah… This feels like a super sustainable industry
/S
