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Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
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@TCatInReality@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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The lifespan of the GPUs used for #AI is less than three years.

IMO, scaling and oligarchical behaviour mean that replacements will be consolidated, not distributed (likely where the poor live and the politicians give generous tax breaks to polluters)

This means, before the decade is out, we will have hundreds of massive data centers abandoned. Maybe they'd be reused, but probably too expensive to do so.

We must reign in this recklessness.
#RegulateAI

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Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

There seems a clearly possibility that Data Centres may become this century's canals;

as investment continues to expand & expensive infrastructure gets built, recent developments in AI & associated technologies suggest it may soon move from a networked utility to a local based (and powerful) software solution, making data centres (quickly) redundant...

If so, pretty quickly (like canals) a major infrastructure sector will be over-taken by technological change.

#DataCentres #technology

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@TCatInReality@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6

The lifespan of the GPUs used for #AI is less than three years.

IMO, scaling and oligarchical behaviour mean that replacements will be consolidated, not distributed (likely where the poor live and the politicians give generous tax breaks to polluters)

This means, before the decade is out, we will have hundreds of massive data centers abandoned. Maybe they'd be reused, but probably too expensive to do so.

We must reign in this recklessness.
#RegulateAI

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