You mean like a crazy ai surveillance program? I take it with a grain of salt but I heard ppl say that’s how they caught Luigi. They have some super secret prototype program “eye in the sky” thing and they just said it was a mc d’s worker as cover.
kionay@lemmy.world 3 days ago
if someone comes up with an alternative way to use a bunch of that infrastructure to make money, I bet they could get a lot of business when the AI bubble pops and suddenly these datacenters are desperate to find a use for themselves
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 days ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even if that doesn’t exist yet in the USA, it’s definitely in the UK with all their CCTV stuff.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days ago
After .com popped, all the money ran to install fiber data infrastructure - a lot of installs put in more capacity than they projected using for 100 years (glass fibers are cheap, digging trenches for them is expensive). The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday.
Counterintuitively, I’m seeing “fiber to the home” deployed more in rural an exurb areas. My guess this is because its lower density meaning installing and maintaining copper repeaters becomes more expensive than laying long distance, low maintenance, fiber. Additionally its easier to obtain permits because there is far less existing infrastructure to interfere with right of way and critical services.
We got fiber to the home in our exurb about 4 years ago here in the USA. Its really cheap too. 500Mb/s is $75, 1Gb/s $100, and 5Gb/s I think is $200 per month.
MangoCats@feddit.it 13 hours ago
Yeah, it’s not “nowhere” - but it’s really far from “everywhere” considering we’ve been rolling it out for 25 years now. I think you’re right: glass is cheaper than copper these days, and if they’ve got to repair/replace the copper it’s probably cheaper to just run the glass. They put a line down the main road 1/4 mile from our home last year (suburban area in a 1M pop city), and lots of people who live on that main road have gotten fiber to the home service, but they’re not interested in running the extra 1500 feet to reach us yet. I’d guess in our city of 1M, maybe 200,000 have potential fiber to the home service if they want it, the rest of us are stuck with re-heated cable TV co-ax for our broadband.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized
Really? The US is really unsophisticated in certain key areas that you wouldn’t expect.
MangoCats@feddit.it 13 hours ago
They are starting to roll it out in fits and starts in the major metro areas at least, but yeah, 20 years late and nowhere near as universally as promised when our service providers took all those government grants and then didn’t deliver, IMO.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Trillions of dollars worth of compute mining dogecoin
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Meanwhile the planet is dying from all the increased emissions from data center usage.
BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Datacenters aren’t helping, but they’re like 3-4% of emissions. It’s still manufacturing plastic crap and shipping across the ocean with bunker fuel burn causing 60% of it.
But yeah, increased energy usage isn’t helping.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I heard ram pricing is high. There’s their use, an economic one.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 days ago
So you’re saying mining crypto is gonna come back into fashion?
randy@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I believe that’s pretty much what happened after the dot-com crash. A lot of fiber was laid during the bubble, it went dormant after the crash, but it was useful afterward as the internet continued growing.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In a small, anecdotal way, I can say with confidence that the level of fiber trenching that happened (in a major metro area) from late 1999 through 2002 was on a whole other level.