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Ben Pate 🤘🏻benpate@mastodon.social
Oct 20, 2026, 3:01 PM
@JimEMichaels
Yeah, they’re pretty bad right now. But I’m not as concerned about them long term.
Data centers are to the 2020’s what mainframes are to the 1970’s - necessary because of the limits of our tech.
Investors are already worried about a collapse.
On our current trajectory, those big data centers will be obsolete in 5-10 years. Everyone will have enough intelligence on their phone or laptop.
Then we can convert all those huge buildings into housing. Or pickleball courts.
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argv[-1]argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Oct 20, 2026, 5:58 PM
@benpate
Mainframes still exist and aren't obsolete. But they are smaller, because of Moore's law.
However, Moore's law is dead. Has been for over a decade. The exponential-growth-of-computing-power party is over. Physics says no.
And our current trajectory is not to make AI smaller and more efficient. It's to build more data centers and burn more energy—at tremendous cost, with no profit in sight. https://isaiprofitable.com
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argv[-1]argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Oct 20, 2026, 5:59 PM
@benpate
That's not to mention that AI doesn't even work as advertised. No actual intelligence going on, just an impressive but nonetheless superficial simulacrum of it—a simulacrum that passes for intelligent only until actual intellectual rigor enters the equation, and then immediately falls apart. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/117215411079697884
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