why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@ana Actually, speaking of malls, I'm surprised these corpo nerds aren't buying out current, abandoned or demolished malls to make data centers instead of wasting resources to create new data centers.

[johnweeks@mastodon.social]

@pluralistic

[p4w@woof.tech]

@ana actually calling them "slop factory" works too

[bayo@me.dm]

@ana in order to get the investments ($)

[seepr@toot.community]

@ana who actually owns the data in the center? artists? #artist #art

The term datacenter implies that the data is actually the most valuable part about it; a fitting observation imo.

[tinfoilhat@social.cybercult.biz]

@ana bravo

[b_rain@troet.cafe]

@LukefromDC @ana now we can all be the knights of NI! #montyPython

[seabass@social.seabass.systems]

@mast0d0nphan @ana I'd guess it's chiefly a ventilation issue. Given how stuffy the air inside them can be ordinarily, I can't imagine that cooling computers in them would be easy!

[happycrow13@mastodon.social]

@ana Oh no I hate that. I mean it's perfect, but the way it fumbles off my tongue is just fucky.
...now that I think about it that's perfect for AI generated bs. Looks good, feels off and gross in a way I can't articulate.

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ana oh bravo!

[adrake@sfba.social]

@mast0d0nphan @ana there's nothing worth reusing in a mall. Data centers have racks of heavy equipment inside and generally heavy cooling setups on the roof, too. Mall construction isn't rated for that. Cheaper and less risk to demolish and build to spec than to retrofit. Nobody wants to fry millions of dollars in server hardware because the retrofitted mall roof leaked.

The site is flat, but unless you get lucky it probably has none of the other things you'd want (like proximity to big power lines or network backbones).

[getthebrief@mastodon.social]

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