• kboos1@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What are all of these data centers for? Do they really need hundreds of data centers? Are they going to build a bunch of data centers and half sit unused or underutilized?

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      6 days ago

      Palantir is the profit-driven offshoot of this program. It’s mostly infrastructure for privatized mass surveillance services. Also why the push for age verification and ID is happen alongside this.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

      The funny part is that the USA doesn’t have enough electric generation infrastructure to power more than a small sliver of all the planned AI data centers.