This answer from AI scared the crap out of me

[uponit7771]

From Gemini itself

Your intuition is correct: The "Line" for true AI Data Centers is mostly populated by the AI industry itself.

If you remove the tech companies trading money with each other, the "Organic Demand" from the rest of the global economy (Retail, Finance, Manufacturing) for massive, dedicated AI clusters is currently a fraction of the total backlog. Most of those "normal" companies are still just buying standard cloud space and experimenting with AI on the side.

Okay ... why are they building these massive data centers without gobs of demand for them?!


You are correct that the Market Demand (organic companies paying for compute) is lagging significantly behind the Infrastructure Supply (the data centers being built).

The Reality: We are currently in the "Build it and they will come" phase. The builders are betting that by the time these centers are finished in 2027–2028, the AI software will be so essential that every "organic" company will have no choice but to pay up.


My question to DU: Anyone else maybe use AI twice a month or even a at most ?!


Thx in advance for any response.

[edhopper]

1. AI

Is a bubble due to burst soon.
Much of the financing is reminiscent of the Housing bubble.

[uponit7771]

12. Right?! Seems worse, there still a need for housing ... after 10 minutes this thing tells people there's no real need

... for this amount of data centers

[Bristlecone]

2. I use it daily for work

I’m required to. But I’m in tech and work for a company that is selling AI tools as an adjunct to our entire product portfolio.

PS-I hate it all

[uponit7771]

13. I was tryna use it for embedded ... there are few data models that are trained for it thoroughly

[mwmisses4289]

3. I have used once or twice by accident ( I had inadvertently

turned it on when it popped up on my phone screen). I don't have much call to use it yet, fortunately.

[Scrivener7]

4. The three times I have used Chat GPT, it gave

consistently wrong answers.

[SheltieLover]

5. Ai should be illegal imo

[Frasier Balzov]

6. Ask the question "What are all the applications for AI?"

AI itself should give you a comprehensive overview of how it is being deployed.

And because of its capacity for learning, it will potentially become very good at many things..

[uponit7771]

14. Nearly 80% of "apps" are the it works on my machine type that a small and harder for AI to mess up.

[Luciferous]

7. I used it one time at work during a

training session where it was required. I have zero interest in AI and I'm tired of companies trying to push it on us.

[Journeyman]

8. It comes up when I do internet searches . . .

and I can't figure out how to turn it off. I ignore it as much as possible, as I prefer to make my own decisions, but I'm sure AI's purveyors count my forced participation in their schemes as a "satisfied customer."

Beyond this peripheral involvement, I've no use for AI, for a host of reasons.

[mwmisses4289]

17. Someone on DU posted this tip.

Type in your search phrase, then type -AI after it.

For example: pet food bowls -AI
An ai answer won't be the first thing that comes up, and it seems to cut the ai nonsense way down (it doesn't cut it out completely, unfortunately).

I also found it works better if the A and I are capitalized.

Hope this helps!

[Journeyman]

18. Thank you very much for the tip . . .

I'll give this a try.

[hunter]

9. AI will not be the primary purpose for these data centers.

They will be used for surveillance, commercial and political.

You won't be able to take a piss without it being recorded.

Once a tool is built it won't be abandoned.

Aside from a few non-critical language translation tasks, I don't use AI for anything.

Nonsense like ChatGPT and AI image generation and modification tools are banned from my personal universe. I don't do any "vibe" coding.

I guess I'm lucky that I'm not forced to use it.

[uponit7771]

15. Can't help but think this too, or the MAG7 CEOs are **REALLY** not that smart and betting on one person demand

... assessment

[hunter]

22. The AI people might not be that smart...

... but others in government and commerce will be perfectly happy to purchase or subsidize these giant data centers for other purposes.

It would be lovely to see these data centers fail and be broken up, the bits sold for pennies on the dollar to scientists and others who can put the components to good use but that's probably not going to happen.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I probably use it 2-5x/wk on average.

[scipan]

11. I mostly use it to try to understand physics and biology.

I always read some of the references it gives me, which are sometimes from good sources and sometimes from sites I know nothing about.

I do think it has helped me understand stuff.

Maybe 2x/week.

[uponit7771]

16. Would you pay monthly for it? if so how much? thx in advance

[scipan]

23. No. I would draw the line there for ethical reasons. Nt

[sakabatou]

19. I don't use it, but I do watch it, thanks to a certain turtle

[RoeVWade]

21. Ai is more reason why we have to keep our democracy.

One person, one vote, regardless of the often frustration, is the only way against oligarchy, autocracy and so forth, so we don't become minions of Ai controllers, or anything else.

AI isn't going away. Other countries will have it, even if we didn't.

[KentuckyWoman]

20. If you build it they will come....

People didn't think they needed the internet either, but here we are. For AI - My humble opinion is that it is going to be a lot easier to shovel the propaganda if everything gets filtered through the algorithm. It will take a few generations to not have anyone left who remembers actual critical thinking.