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Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center

155 points · 153 comments · simonpure

WokeUp420 · 1790259618 · focus · HN ↗
The number of datacenters needing to come online doesn't add up to me. It's suspicious
1. echelon · 1790260049 · focus · HN ↗
  When our spot instances go away and don't come back, that's a sign that there's not enough capacity.
  There is more demand for compute than there is supply, and that demand is going up.
  Look at all of the things that have been and are being automated and realize that we're year 6 into a hundred year journey.
  Look around you at all the things that aren't automated. They will be.
  The world you grew up in won't be here for much longer. We're going through a transformation even more dramatic than the industrial revolution. There were no airplanes and then we landed on the moon.
  Edit: downvotes as expected, but I'm shocked that a bunch of smart people at HN aren't taking the bet where this leads to a complete upending of the status quo. The holdout crowd needs to dream bigger.
  The models are solving Millennium Prize problems, finding novel biological pathways our scientists can't see, putting every single software engineer out of the job of "coding by hand", and doing the same to designers, marketers, filmmakers, and 3D artists who used to have to operate pixel by pixel / photon by photon.
  Everything is going to be AI soon.
  1. simianwords · 1790270352 · focus · HN ↗
    On HN there are a lot of people who truly believe that this whole thing is hype and the bubble will burst and things will go back to how it was before.
    The real answer to “how many data centers do we need” is hard. Anyone giving confident answers to this should be suspicious.
    The easy type of answer you get from those kind of people will always be “we are building too much”. They’d have said that 3 years back and have no shame in admitting it.
    The thing is, you can overestimate or underestimate. Both have cons. The people sincerely believing this is all hype will always underestimate because all their epistemic muscle haven’t been used.
    watwut · 1790320370 · focus · HN ↗
    The people who say it is a bubble say "Once it pops, we will get major recession and everyone will suffer. We are already im fascist -autoritarian phase and economic hardship will make it worst."
    > They’d have said that 3 years back and have no shame in admitting it.
    3 years back, we had strong push for absolutely unprepared AI into areas where it sux. All the while onslaught of lies about its capabilities and hype.
    In the meantime we had "artists are all obsolete suckers hahaha" and "humans are obsolete" and "AI will raise your kids so that you dont have to interact with them".
    And we had "we the AI company will destroy us" as if it was a good thing.

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