• ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Question: what is ultimately the purpose of all those data centers? To store information on every single tiny aspect of our lives? Up to and including how we hold utensils and the distance and typing speed on keyboards and phones up to a micro second accuracy? I do not know… But surely if they are looking for blackmail type material they would need less storage space? Or are they looking for such an absolute birth to death information on everyone they can that they ultimately want every second of our lives in 8K video (while obviously leaving their own in a blackhole, and able to purge their own lives from storage whenever they want allowing for potential new comers who entered the elite to cover up the murders and fuckery they did to get there). What? Just fucking what are they all there for?

    I mean so so so so many have cropped up that most cannot be even close to full capacity. Or can they?

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      15 days ago

      They don’t even know. Literally. They’re just betting demand will appear

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        So the reason why is entirely due to someone saying ‘I want to deny personal computing to everyone and destroy the environment and waste unbelievable amounts of tax payer money and cost lots of lives in the process’ ultimately boils down to ‘we just had a hunch’?

        This is how civilizations fall in the stupidest ways imaginable.

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      15 days ago

      One way to understand this process in a reductive but not altogether that off the mark way is to frame fascism as a weaponization of measurement, artificial metrics, beaucracy, dissection and surveillance. Without paperwork and endless obsessive attempts to draw distinctions between things that do not exist it really isn’t true fascism.

      In this sense Microsoft’s use of Azure to enable the surveillance, targetting, and atomization of Palestinian society for Israel’s Genocide and all of the pointless data centers meant to hoard information about people being built in areas without enough water already for humans are two sides of the same irrational coin.

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      15 days ago

      This is just mostly for training and running LLMs. Not a lot of storage on these machines, they’re super high memory bandwidth parallel compute monsters.

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      12 days ago

      Tracking and surveillance for the unavoidable global climate collapse. The rich know that there will be unrest around the globe, this is how they control us.

      Probably .01% of the surveillance centers power are used for summarizing Karen’s email. The rest is for data points on every single thing they can get on you. Same reason they want flock. People and car tracking, impossible to evade.

      We are actively living in a surveillance state like north Korea but somehow totally ignoring it.

      Would anyone dare go on their social media profile and post that a certain political leader needs to be dissapeared? I won’t even say things like that in a phone call! Theyre always listening and tracking you. How do they take people down? Generate images of csam using grok (thats why it was trained with it) and somehow it appears on your device or any of your cloud services along with a website history of all the bad stuff you definitely did. No one will bat an eye and youll be in prison for life.

      Or also very easy, fake medical records of depression and medication, and say they offed themselves off a bridge or with a shotgun to the back of the head “such a shame, I had no idea they were depressed”.

      Its rediculously easy to get rid of anyone who doesnt lick dear leaders boots. I’d be willing to bet this is all happening right now and we have no idea. Theyve certainly been imprisoning completely legal immigrants in detention centers with 0 repurcussions.

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      15 days ago

      After climate change, if we survive it, the next crysis will be an information crysis, because the data humanity collects doubles every year, we’ll literally run out of planet materials to store informations (pen, paper, hard disks, whatever)

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        15 days ago

        Bit why. I can understand xolexting somedata but eventually it becomes aged out.