Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoNo. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.
Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoNo. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Something tells me you’ve never worked for a massive company.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
… it’s Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook building all these huge datacenters. The biggest companies on the planet
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bruh, you’re the one who called them massive companies