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.”
Mad Max? More like the opening scenes to Bladerunner 2049.
Say, uh… how many people are guarding that hardware?
These fitted with machine guns bet you anything
Looking forward to the domestic attacks on these.
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Edit: protip, lock your phone before putting it in your pocket.
Like homeless camps but for servers.
10’s of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people…
By relying on most people being law abiding citizens who only act like badass rebels online.
right like hardware is extremely vulnerable to fires lmao
its a good thing there isnt a cost of living crisis or people might think all that copper was valuble
Please stop using AI, please.
If you’re required to use AI for your job, then sabotage the efforts.
I beg of you.
It’s not even necessary. It will come down on its own. Recent reportings in my company says we’ve increased our productivity by 10℅ while the number of defects rose by 40℅. And the cost increases with every month. It’s unsustainable.
I have been, by focusing on enabling team members to use it exactly like how leadership wants. You want them to use more AI? Okay… they need Agentic harnesses that can do work for them locally. They need MacBook Pros to run the models. They need cloud keys to test different frontier models for different loads. They need governance, observability, repeatability, scheduling, human-in-the-loop…
I’m going to show them that anyone can build a bridge, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely works. On top of that, I’m going to show them that they’re wrong in believing they want a bridge. All it should take is seeing that they got exactly what they wanted without getting anything that they wanted.
Pure wishful thinking like this is just as useful as thoughts and prayers.
This is a overhyped technology just like the internet was before the dotcom bubble popped.
The best you can hope for is for the AI bubble to burst and then see what AI is like when it normalises.
Because to think this technology will just go away is going to end the same way as for tge people who said the internet is just a temporary fad.
When the dot com bubble bursted, the typical internet speed was 56k modem speed and cellular internet practically didn’t exist. At that point the internet still needed years of exponential technological advancement to allow for stuff like streaming amd mobile services. The difference with the AI bubble is that they try to brute force their way out of infancy by throwing ludicrous amounts of money, energy and other recources at it instead of waiting for the much needed technological progress
While everyone had 56k modems, they laid millions of miles of finer optic cable. That sounds like brute forcing to me. Most of it laid there dark for 20 years.
Then 9/11 happened and suddenly we have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth competed with infrared before it dominated. Bluetooth’s wlan not getting good is still sad to me.
I’ve been cruising with the most expensive model at work for a while now. After github’s pricing model change they finally asked us to be more conscious about which model we’re using (which was hilarious after we were constantly asked to use more AI), but eh, it’s easier to just leave it on Claude 4.8. I figure eventually the costs will catch up with the company.
Make sure to use max reasoning for better results!
And more time to relax while it is “kajiggering…”
wouldn’t it be easier to sabotage tents with data farms in them
I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.
I’ve seen Mad Max and I’m going to disagree. This looks LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE MAD MAX to me and you can’t diminish that, because it’s entirely subjective. But also correct. The resemblance is uncanny.
I also am a qualified expert on what does and doesn’t look like mad max, and I concur.
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
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.
Are these just industrial chicken coops?
You know, this kind of thing:
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.
I think you misunderstood, i thought it funny that meta is putting expensive GPUs into what amounts to chicken coops. Not that the article was wrong and there’s actual chickens inside
Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties
jet engines
AI
How to burn endless amounts of fuel in order to make more noise than sense 😁
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.
Those servers have better housing than the ICE kidnapping victims
