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.”
10’s of millions of dollars in rural areas , I wonder how they protect all that from large groups of angry people…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing
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
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
Drones ! ,we need drones ,lots of drones ,NOW
I really love this.
Extra bonus because quote is from Gandhi
He is history’s most violent monster, after all
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?
USA spends more on healthcare than countries with socialised healthcare.
And yet it only goes to very few people. When they don’t pay for basic preventative care, the more complicated issues grow in cost in such a way as to outweigh their “savings”.
The US is a country that believes that not paying your rent or replacing the batteries in the smoke detector is a fantastic way to save money. Joke country.
In relation to what?
Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is
Homeless don’t earn the tech overlords money and they keep the general populace knowing where they could be. It’s bullshit that we give these cunts rope rather than just hanging them ourselves.
Maybe there needs to be a rebellion not against government but the real overlords…
As if they expect the servers to be obsolete long before the fabric roof
Was thinking this too. They probably won’t even relocate them as it’s more efficient to put in the newest gear in their new facility
Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute
Millions and Millions $$$ in hardware, all in light structures, in rural areas without much police presence you say?
Interesting.
That amount of millions can feed the crackheads for generations.
Gamers need to start paying bounties for found GTX or DDR5 sticks.
Yes ricko ,kaboum
don’t let crackheads know about it
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.
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.
