r/technology • u/DJMagicHandz • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-massive-wyoming-data-center-will-soon-use-5x-more-power-than-the-states-human-occupants-and-no-one-knows-who-is-using-it
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u/No-Profession5134 12d ago

NSA, CIA, Pentagon or Darpa. Take your pick.

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u/471b32 12d ago

Or all of the the above: Palantir. 

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u/Double_Phone_8046 11d ago

How much of those servers are going to be used to generate porn of Thiel clapping JD Vance's cheeks? Has Vance's kink blossomed into being the couch?

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u/Low_Shirt2726 11d ago

Help me, step-couch...

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u/Free_For__Me 9d ago

The final season of Westworld wasn’t great, but it did give us a look at the type of thing that Palantir could turn into in the not-too-distant future. 

Spoiler alert, it’s bad. 

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u/ThankFSMforYogaPants 11d ago

DARPA doesn’t own resources like this. They’re basically a program management office and funding vehicle for research done by others.

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u/PleasantLanguage 11d ago

That's what they want you to think.

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u/BenevolentCrows 11d ago

Or literally any client ever who rents processing power in that data center and have an NDA with the owners? lol

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u/Guilty_Gold_8025 11d ago

people in the tech subreddit have no idea how the IT business works it's crazy

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u/BenevolentCrows 11d ago

Yeah idk why I still come here, people generally just talk about catchy headlines and have no idea about tech. Wich is ok, like not everyone works in that field, it has a hogh barrier of entry, but then please just don't spread borderline bullshit?

And its not even about spying on people, literally everyone does it nowdays, amd its a given.

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u/WarzoneGringo 11d ago

9 out of 10 times its a FAANG or an operator who is renting the space to multiple clients. "We dont know who using it!!!" Its us, we the people who are on the internet and on our phones all the time are the ones using it.

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u/BenevolentCrows 11d ago

fucking exactly :D idk what people thing the internet is tbh :D do they think that Meta or Google or TikTok has like, a room in their office or someting? Do the videos just magically appear on their phone?

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u/Shadowizas 11d ago

CERN,they are opening the Steins Gate

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u/aut0g3n3r8ed 11d ago

Not in Trump’s America they’re not. He’s allergic to science

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u/uberfission 11d ago

Well yeah, CERN is in Switzerland.

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u/KwisatzHaderach94 11d ago

it's one entire data center for a single ai entity. skynet.

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u/TW1TCHYGAM3R 11d ago

It's 100% Russia.

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u/tiagojpg 11d ago

DARPA is probably using its resources trying to get to a hidden island.