Is this the Beginning of the End for the AI Bubble?

K3Nv4 · 2026-06-11T04:31:38+0100

MPRTwice said:
not that part of it. no coal burning in the area I was around.

Nothing is stopping you from breathing in oil toxins but I'd rather have the clean air and deal with data centers and watch oil companies reduce in size.

MPRTwice · 2026-06-11T04:32:42+0100

K3Nv4 said:
Nothing is stopping you from breathing in oil toxins but I'd rather have the clean air and deal with data centers and watch oil companies reduce in size.

actually, my lungs were having a much easier time by oil than by coal. I almost forgot what it is like to not have double vision/consistent silent chest asthma. Many report similiar, even air force pilots who do bio-conditioning for high G-Force environments.

If an air force pilot can't live here without allergy meds then you should know it's bad, but their visits to Texas? They were able to breathe well.

coal is factually much more dangerous to breathing than being around oil in general. I am also living proof of that.

Vixi · 2026-06-11T14:33:43+0100

titan_tim said:
Just some extra clarification on that number.

Out of 5,300 about 90% of those are traditional data centers. Those use 5-10x less energy than AI centers. The remaining are the energy and water guzzling AI centers along with most new centers which are being built today.

Traditional datacenters are still guzzlers and completely unnecessary.

Nakamichi · 2026-06-11T16:36:59+0100

Vixi said:
Traditional datacenters are still guzzlers and completely unnecessary.

Arent traditional datacenters basically hosting gbatemp?
i cant see a lot of bigger pages actually selfhosting

lightwo · 2026-06-11T17:28:14+0100

Vixi said:
Traditional datacenters are still guzzlers and completely unnecessary.

Cloud does often cost more to use than having own infrastructure. It is also more marketable as it's a single service that covers all of processing, uptime and almost everything else. But in terms of datacentres, companies need their own infrastructure, and just because they use or don't use cloud doesn't mean there isn't a computer running their services somewhere... so the only alternative in regards to resource use would be to not have computers at all. :rolleyes:

Of course, I'm not talking about "AI"/LLM training/hosting datacentres. The society would be better off without them ever again.

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