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Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working (pivot-to-ai.com)
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making AI haters seem very cool and effective

(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbTXEOJEVM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-data-center-watch-worries-anti-ai-activism-is-working - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

It's chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That's assuming the hardware doesn't die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.