Wednesday, December 31, 2025

We're Getting a Data Center

Springfield town council rejected building a monorail and instead approved an AI data center.

Comments

Are they putting PFAs in the water? Shhh... trade secret.

#1 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-31 01:15 PM

I am mixed on the AI data center craze.

A data center in the past, the software was the key, sure speed was important but SW cloud design could make slower machines appear faster when scaled.

But they are buying millions of NVidia AI devices and putting them in these centers.

IMO its similar to buying millions of GPUs and putting them in data centers.

The architecture for AI isn't set in stone. NVideo just dropped $20Billion to get exclusivity with GroqInc, a blazing-fast AI chip startup that's been nipping at their heels in inference. Grok specializes in fast AI inference, the part of where the chatbot or AI actually puts the words on the screen. NVidia makes the chipset the builds/trains models.

Groq hosts these AI models on their own hardware and figured out how to spit output faster than NVidia.

Wont these centers be obsolete in 5 years or so? Seems like huge investments/evaluations for a fast moving industry.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 01:33 PM

I share that concern. A regional power company increase costs to improve their infrastructure and then the rest of the rate payers get stuck when the data center closes or moves get a more favorable deal.

#3 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-31 04:39 PM

Good thing your boy Trump is is halting all alternative energy programs, right? And rolling back environmental regulations too.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:43 PM

Snoofy could we have a thread where the adults can converse without Trump non-sequiturs and TDS?

#5 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-31 04:58 PM

Good thing your boy Trump is is halting all alternative energy programs, right?
- snoofy

Idk I think putting windmills in the ocean, which will never be removed is irresponsible.

Go nuclear!

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 05:33 PM

And rolling back environmental regulations too.
#4 | Posted by snoofy

This is a simpleton mindset

More regulations gooder!

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 05:35 PM

And rolling back environmental regulations too.
#4 | Posted by snoofy
This is a simpleton mindset
More regulations gooder!

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 05:35 PM

Spoken like a true patriot to China.

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-31 06:47 PM

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