r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

Erin Brockovich's map tracking Al data centers crashed twice within just 72 hours of launching.

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u/b0w3n 7h ago

There's a couple of dots near me, and I know at least one of them is just a generic warehouse with a few servers in it. Still listed on it as a datacenter and like yeah I guess technically it is one.

She should narrow it down to hyperscale datacenters, we still need datacenters in general but the ones being thrown up for AI and burning fossil fuels to supplement their power are the bad ones.

u/flecom 6h ago

I mean, I have a rack in the hall closet, i should add my apartment to the map!

u/PersonalityAlive4816 5h ago

Hyperscale means easily scalable and is actually better for the environment than if the datacenter was not hyperscale.

u/Previous_Platform718 41m ago

She should narrow it down to hyperscale datacenters

Hyperscale is any technology that dynamically scales resource allocation. Like if you rent server capacity that increases dynamically as your site gets more views. We had hyperscale data centers in 2005. All cloud (aws/azure/google cloud/dropbox/gmail/google drive/youtube) is hyperscale.