Posted on 12/14/2025 1:47:24 PM PST by Chickensoup
Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?
“ The “market” demands efficiency to generate a higher return on investment.
AI will drive efficiency like literally, nothing before. The impact on manufacturing and logistics will rival the Industrial Revolution. This will result in reduced expenses and higher profits.AI requires huge processing centers. Those centers require huge amounts of energy and water to keep them running and keep them cool.”
If these data centers are so valuable, why do residential electricity and water users have to pick up the bill for building and maintaining and running them? Shouldn’t the data center owners be picking up the bill for all these costs, as they are going to be the ones profiting from them?
Why do we need the internet?
Love those old shows explaining things. Wonder if this 1940's "mobile telephone" thing will ever catch on? YouTube link
Why are you asking me? I have no idea.
I do know that in Texas, these companies go to the power companies and pay them for five years in advance. That gets their attention.
Since the globalists lost there nest egg (USAID) they need a new revenue stream and data centers are the perfect front for bitcoin mining.
LOL. I wouldn’t know if it lied to me about those subjects; but I suspect you do.
I’ll have to try it; so far I’ve only used it for very simple things, to see what it was like. (But I’d rather ‘You Are So Beautiful’ for my AI music accompaniment...and some Randy Newman.)
If enough researchers putr in enough data, AI can be used to connect the dots in a way that one or two or even a team can understand.
The whole AI thing is going to make all of the science fiction we read when we were young into science fact, All of it from assimov to heinlein to herbert. all of it.
Data Centers: because everyone has to save their funny cat videos and goat porn to the cloud.
That’s why America needs a dual grid strategy. One for industrial users and another for residential, with industrial users paying for their own.
I buy dvds usually at goodwill.
I do not go to the movies. My 70+ inch screen with surround sound works.
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AI is used in large call centers to predict call volumes and route calls throughout the country. When tied into the CRM systems, it can identify product production and logistical problems, and route that information to the proper people without the need for intervention by an intermediary........... This isn’t being done already by companies? This a new thing?
In the logisitics business it can be used to predict the flow of traffic into warehouses based on traffic patterns and feedback from connected trucks.... this hasn’t been done already?
Those are the applications that exist today.
In the entertainment field it is already being used to reduce pre-production and post production in the film and video production business. This saves millions in the production of a film and it cuts development time on the front end by months. How?
Very cool. I remember seeing a newsreel when I was a kid, about the Bell ‘picture phone’ shown at the 1964 World’s Fair. That one didn’t take off, though...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNDkW6nDZw4
Think of all the Traders on Wall Street, sitting at multiple computer monitors all day trading stocks, bonds, etc., companies might need one tenth the number of those people going forward, it’s much easier to have an AI system make trading decisions at speeds humans can’t comprehend.
.........why is this important in this field?
Think of Amazon and all those fulfillment centers employing thousands of people, who needs people to pick merchandise to fill orders when AI enabled robots can do the same function at a fraction of the cost.
How are the robot amazon.com warehouses doing?
Think of the military applications, I could easily see in the future, something like Skynet from the Terminator Movies, a distributed group of AI supercomputers monitoring all phone calls, emails, public and private communications in places like China...
Or the United States? What would be good about that?
The application of AI enable devices and services is endless in the time and cost savings that are possible.
big brother is watching you
But isn’t the bigger question why should everything go digital? And managed centerly?
because they are building a digital prison
it’s Biblical
Huge profits?
Who is paying?
bingo
I use human too.
The robot is programmed to be a bit annoyed.
I see what it is trying to say. But most thing have been done well already. Why would on line school need ai. It does well now. For example.
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