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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by MantisShrimp90 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:26PM (#50409387)
That depends on your definition of scale. Yes! We were to literally convert the whole world and its resources into data centers.

But the whole problem is that these things aren't acting like other technological revolutions like the internet or Google where lots of profit comes from relatively little spend. They scale linearly maybe if you are super smart and good about your design.

Meanwhile, citizens all over the world are fighting data centers tooth and nail because we are hitting a scaling limit in terms of the resources people will allow to be put into this highway project and its equally unwise and untethered from reality to pretend this doesn't matter in a strategic sense.

Re:The End of AI Frontiers by doctorpangloss on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:12AM (#50410585)
"citizens all over the world" will not lift a finger for CAFOs or trawl fishing. i really don't think anyone "fighting data centers tooth and nail" is doing so because of a belief in the limits of scaling or any understanding of scarcity.