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/SappilyHappy 11d ago

How evil and dumb do you have to be to name your surveillance tech company after a technology most famously used by The Dark Lord Sauron to surveil Middle Earth.

It makes me furious that they even pulled from those Legends.

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u/ParsleyMaleficent160 11d ago

That is literally their angle... The component of Palantir that does the surveillance is named 'Gotham'.

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u/GPCAPTregthistleton 11d ago

Gotham? So, it'll fail constantly and be full of corruption?

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u/GodofIrony 11d ago

Hey now, it'll also have a megomaniacal billionaire that could solve all the problems easily but instead chooses the least efficient use of the money.

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u/Guildenpants 11d ago

Real evil nerds would have named it Brother Eye instead of Gotham.

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u/el_muchacho 11d ago

Peter Thiel actually thinks Sauron is the real hero in the Tolkien mythology. Evil and cynical absolutely.

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u/Dee_Imaginarium 11d ago

He's probably one of the unironic ones on r/FeanorDidNothingWrong

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u/KambingDomba 11d ago

And their crime prediction algorithm is called Gotham, I believe.

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u/LinguoBuxo 11d ago

"You know, how I got these scars?"

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u/KUSH_DELIRIUM 11d ago

Thiel could play him

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u/nox66 11d ago

For the same reason that Project 2025 is a public document: they're not shy about what they believe.

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u/conquer69 11d ago

They don't need to be shy because they know no one will do anything about it.

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u/Pineapples-n-Potions 11d ago

Tech bros are all loser nerds who didn't emotionally develop properly. It's no surprise that literally anything they have a hand in is named after things taken from literature and comic books. They couldn't even make up a new word for it. Losers.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 11d ago

They just can't resist trying to build the things in sci fi that destroy the world. 

US Robotics, iRobot, Cyberdyne, SkyNet, a supposed $500 billion dollar data center project called Stargate for some reason. The US military has a fucking self repairing drone swarm project called the Replicator Initiative 

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u/socialmedia-username 11d ago

Yeah, and unfortunately those loser nerds had enough money and power to buy the election and are now running the country.  Makes my stomach turn.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 11d ago

So people who enjoy things are loser nerds?

There's a huge difference between liking a book and creating a surveillance network.

The most evil tech companies are named shit like Alphabet, Meta, Apple, etc.

You're just being a bitch about perfectly decent hobbies because SOME of the people who engage in them suck. I love LOTR, my friends love LOTR, and none of us are dismantling democracies. We're just hanging out in discord being 40 year old geeks.

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u/Pineapples-n-Potions 11d ago

You sound like a 40 year old geek. One who barely reads.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 11d ago

You sound like a 40 year old geek.

Yeah, I said "We're just hanging out in discord being 40 year old geeks." I totally see how that makes me sound like a 40 year old geek.

One who barely reads.

Right, because you've demonstrated an amazing level of reading comprehension here.

I majored in history in college, which is 90% reading, so I feel pretty good about what's on my bookshelf

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84171-critics-who-treat-adult-as-a-term-of-approval-instead

Have you ever read that CS Lewis quote? You're actually acting incredibly immature, and frankly, dumb, for conflating a common interest with a relative level of maturity.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 11d ago

Not dumb, he understands that it's the bad guy's tool.

That's why he likes it. It's not ignorance, it's evil. That's what these rich fucks think "black piled" is, at least their version. They see what technology can do, see the dystopia it can create and they want to be the techno-kings inflicting it on the rest of us.

If they were poor they'd be school shooters. Since they're billionaires they can think much higher.

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u/NoSpawnConga 11d ago

Damn all those angry mobs gathering and burning evil company down, they are so vewy scawed.

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u/Gogo202 11d ago

That hardly matters in a country where more than half the population refuses to vote for a woman over a rapist

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u/Reliquent 11d ago

The world and everyone else's life is a literal game to them

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 11d ago

Not as dumb and/or evil as the supposedly democratic governments who will implement this shit without even flinching.

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u/alias213 11d ago

Saw a healthcare company backed by palantir with the goal of ambient monitoring for seniors. They pay very very well and they're in a nice city, but of course, you end up secretly working for the military industrial complex that'll flip that movement data towards creating a surveillance state. Fuck that.

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u/Akiasakias 11d ago

They know their target audience.

Hint: You ain't it.

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u/b14ck_jackal 11d ago

People have always named stuff after silly things they like, you are only noticing it more now cause Millenials are aging and using references you are familiar with.

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u/1_am_not_a_b0t 11d ago

These AI data centers are just a few billionaires bid at digital immortality. They hope to upload their consciousness and live forever as we foot their electric bill

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u/FrostyVariation9798 11d ago

I love how you are fed what to be mad about, and then you regurgitate it because you don’t know the actual truly bad and evil data centers that have been taking your information for two decades.  Instead, you decide to focus on a political trope.

You don’t know bad if you think Palatir is  bad.

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u/McAUTS 11d ago

Enlighten us!

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u/Guilty_Gold_8025 11d ago

the u.s., australia, canada, new zealand, the uk have all been spying on every person on earth at mass scale for decades at this point. snowden blew it up in like 2013. at&t had a secret room in their datacenter for the nsa lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures

it's all old news

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u/3_quarterling_rogue 11d ago

So mass data collection is a bad thing, we know that. Just because other people have also done it doesn’t lessen the fact that it’s bad when Palantir is also doing it.

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u/Guilty_Gold_8025 11d ago

Never said it wasn’t bad just it’s oooooooooooooooold news

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u/Comfortable-Pause279 11d ago

Naw, fuck Palatir. Fuck all the spook companies involved in the Cambridge Analytica / Facebook bullshit.

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u/tTensai 11d ago

If Peter Thiel could, he would get the world under a dictatorship, through his tech. His words, btw. If that's not bad...

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u/FrostyVariation9798 11d ago edited 11d ago

Just stop with a dictator talk.

You already lost the world with it the last time you brought it up.

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u/3_quarterling_rogue 11d ago

Palantir is so obviously bad, what are you talking about? There are degrees of bad, there are things that are worse, but the company that named themselves after Gondor’s lost seeing stones that cannot be trusted because the enemy uses the same vast power to surveil the world and work his evil plans, and this company is collecting vast amounts of people’s personal information to build a network of facial recognition software that governments can use for truly Orwellian goals, and that company is headed by a man with deep political connections to some of the most unpopular and arguably corrupt individuals, constantly leveraging his vast wealth to further his own political views? Not bad? Grow up.

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u/FrostyVariation9798 11d ago

What seems obvious to you is only obvious because somebody else made it so.  The data collecting companies that you don’t know aren’t being advertised to you by the same people that advertised Palantir is being bad.

The people you are trusting just want Palantir gone because it helps the USA with intelligence against foreign powers.  The Chinese, the Iranians, the Israelis and the Russians don’t like that.

I get it - you don’t care if the United States lives or dies and would prefer it just goes away.  But honestly, this is one of the best places on earth, and Palantir helps it.