r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 5h ago

Feels good man Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple Russian data centers.

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u/paulHarkonen 5h ago

Probably not, although he wouldn't mind that as a side effect.

The real reason behind the push for data centers is personal money and investment. Data center construction is pretty much single handedly sustaining the stock market right now. An enormous portion of the growth over the past 2ish years has been AI stocks and data center production companies (Nvidia obviously, but also ram producers like Sony, large energy companies supplying power to the centers and other related secondary effects).

If data center construction scales back significantly it'll be an enormous financial hit to the US and more importantly (for them) to large investors who've sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into pretty absurd valuations and production schedules driven by the speculation and boom of the last couple years.

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u/Any-Expression-7027 5h ago

Yeah and gamers still think RAM prices might go DOWN at some point. Haha.

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u/paulHarkonen 4h ago

It depends on what you think is going to happen to the AI bubble.

There's been some interesting developments with power interconnection queues suggesting the projected growth is entirely made up and the new construction will be much slower than they've been claiming. But we shall see.

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u/Any-Expression-7027 4h ago

Nah bro. Entire buildings are going to be covered in RAM sticks and CPUs by the end of this. Hollywood got it wrong. There will be no Terminators. It's a war of attrition, and we will willingly give away our resources to our robot overlords until there is nothing left for us. We will die by our own design.