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Metal and food are useful, though.

• cobbzilla 3mo ago
  the irony of making an implied point that data centers aren’t useful, by using data centers.
  • AngryData 3mo ago
    Pretty sure hackernews doesn't take a giant datacenter to run. Its a text-only website managed by nerds. If HN didn't care about redundancy they could probably host it out of somebody's basement.
    • cobbzilla 3mo ago
      And there are zero data centers in between facilitating anything?
      • 20after4 3mo ago
        The data centers that already exist are one thing, creating a lot of new ones isn't necessary simply to continue supporting hacker news traffic. These new data centers are entirely a speculative buildout of new capacity to support theoretical (and some existing) demand for AI compute.
  • multjoy 3mo ago
    The irony of suggesting that this site is useful.