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Bluetus

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5. Those huge data centers are not to make our lives simpler.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2026, 12:49 PM

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The AI that helps people the most in their daily lives can run locally.

The huge data centers are for the surveillance state. The surveillance state was already huge and growing before LLMs came along. But getting AI into that game takes mind-boggling amounts of storage and processing power.

The main impact on the rest of us is sky-high prices for disk drives, memory chips, laptops, video cards, you-name-it.

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I predict "The end of monster AI as we know it" [View all] usonian Friday OP

Agree with the OP, AI will become increasingly useless over the long run bucolic_frolic Friday #1

The Agentic Economy Celerity Friday #2

Imagine instead a future where every consumer has an assistant agent usonian Friday #3

I have only used AI searches a handful of times, ... Straw Man Friday #4

Those huge data centers are not to make our lives simpler. Bluetus Saturday #5