Video of the massive scale and speed of scaling re AI data centers and it is mind blowing

I think living in a virtual world is not a matter of if. It's when. Meta is investing so much money and time into this. Everyone laughed at the metaverse, but I think that's where it goes. They aren't stupid, and I think in about 20 years we will all plug in for something just like even the most disconnected of folks have cell phones now. Whether it's meta or some other company, things are going to happen within this space. It's no wonder they need some much processing power.

I truly believe that eventually it will be like jumping into another real world. I think there will be haptics, it will be indistinguishable. The earth will exist for you to inhabit if you have the means, otherwise it's a vessel from which we extract power to live in our virtual worlds.

Of course that's abhorrent to many here, but it's not abhorrent to 10 year olds and they are the future. It's not even abhorrent to me, it just is what it is.

I can't see these companies investing so much time and money into this without knowing something we don't.

Great video for a novice - thanks. At what point will they start needing to invest into their own power infrastructure apart from the transformers they already use.
Is it actually water cooled, or some other fluid with the capacity to dissipate heat more than water? Guess this bodes well for plumbers well into the future.

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I think in about 20 years we will all plug in for something just like even the most disconnected of folks have cell phones now. Whether it's meta or some other company, things are going to happen within this space. It's no wonder they need some much processing power.

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I’m 57 and sincerely hope that I tap out before then.

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At what point will they start needing to invest into their own power infrastructure apart from the transformers they already use.

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If/when you watch the video you realize this isn't happening in some amorphous future, it is happening now. Starting 3 Mile Island back up, one company building 2 dedicated nuclear power plants, and others building gas fired plants on campus. There is another example that shows them currently using a field of huge portable diesel generators to run a data center. The need for be up and running outruns the speed of building generation, so it makes sense to operate them on such inefficient generation.

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Is it actually water-cooled, or some other fluid with the capacity to dissipate heat more than water? Guess this bodes well for plumbers well into the future.

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My understanding was just water but other coolants and refrigerants can't be far off. When you see the current scale of the cooling, you will realize it ain't plumbers you need it is boilermakers and pipefitters.

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My understanding was just water but other coolants and refrigerants can't be far off.

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Water has such a high heat capacity and is ubiquitous, I don’t see it changing.

Ideas on who I should invest in to make money off of this?

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if people who refuse to plug in are just abandoned, ostracized, and neglected. Especially the elderly and poor.

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If that means I can spend my golden years fishing in a creek or lake or hiking a trail all to myself, while the rest are virtual fishing and hiking, then that's a benefit to me.

Well then what happens when I’m in the middle of a virtual lap dance in the virtual strip club and some Hajji sets off an EMP?

Does my virtual woody go from midnight to six or does it get stuck in its virtual state?

Yep, that's me. We've adapted to the changes in data center builds over the years. It used to be all colocation and amanaged hosting and now they just build a big shell with all the infrastructure and let the hyperscalers come in and fit our the data halls.

There are still a few old school data centers out there like Coresite but the race now if for AI.