Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.
The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals, and doled out multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers in recent months – some as high as $100m – to fast-track work on machines that could outthink humans on many tasks, a concept known as “super-intelligence” or “artificial general intelligence”.
Its first multi-gigawatt data center, dubbed Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, while another, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over the coming years, Zuckerberg said.
“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO said.
can we please refer to him as his internet name?
Fuckerberg.
You know what? Do it. I want one of these guys to actually built one of these mega data centres. If we’re going to ruin the environment anyway, we might as well encourage the billionaires to bankrupt themselves at the same time.
i’m still waiting for metaverse
“DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said Meta was investing aggressively in AI as the technology has already boosted its ad business by allowing it to sell more ads and at higher prices.”
All this to… Sell more ads.
Someone should stop this
As long as he pays for the hamsters food so they can power it, fine.
Seen this movie. Wait till he says it will be self constructing too.
Oh good so now we know where to look for that sweet data, also fuck you Zuck
You misspelled “blow up all that sweet data”.
Exactly. Putting all their eggs in a single basket like that is just begging an antagonist to bomb the fuck out of them in any future conflict.
I believe you misspelled “Butlerian Jihad”.
If it was really all that, Zuck wouldn’t be trying to sell it to us, he’d be hoarding it jealously and worshipping its very outputs like the second coming of some Lovecraftian deity.
Remember when Zuck the Fuck thought everybody would be flocking to his Metaverse of legless apparitions stuck right at the bottom of the uncanny valley?
What a fucking waste.
Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.
How’s the Metaverse coming, Zuck? Remember how your company was going to dump tens of billions of dollars into developing that digital hellhole?
What a damp pube.
The sad thing is they really did spend tens of billions on metaverse and all they have to show is that emoji art looking Zuck
Nah, that’s just what Zuck looks like.
The free market is truly the most optimal system.
“Now I know what you’re all thinking: But Zuck, will you have enough water and electricity to run this? Don’t worry folks, we’ll have plenty! …You won’t have any though. Sacrifices for my greater good are honorable and necessary! Be proud to be roadkill on my highway to even more obscene wealth that I absolutely in no universe deserve or need!”
This is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
Prometheus & Hyperion are apt names for the first AI datacenters to gain conscience and create a firm called Skylabs.
By doing this they enable and spark up the Terminator ™ timeline.
Zuck is such a tool.
I know it’s a joke, but those fancy word-autocomplete algorithms will never gain conscience. Like, never.
A plush toy would have better chances.
Probably building in middle of desert to. Since the land is cheap. Data center that size how much water would it need? Not like us humans need that for drinking.
