Will it get finished this time? Place your bets!
My money is on the project getting cancelled before they finish.
See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cyrano@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://sherwood.news/tech/see-for-yourself-just-how-massive-metas-hyperion-data-center-is/
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eleijeep@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Why does every site try to get me to install an app that is just their site in a browser?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Easier gathering tracking data and allows them to give you notifications to increase engagement.
If you were looking for an honest answer that is.
I hate it too.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
One reason (of several): so that you can’t block ads
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 3 weeks ago
You still can, at least on Android, it’s just less straightforward, and a bit less consistent
For anyone curious, makes mobile gaming a whole lot less painful too
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Use Firefox focus and firewall level ad blocking. Takes care of 90% of this kind of bullshit.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Feel sorry people living near it.
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I used to live down the street from a great big data center. It wasn’t a big deal. It’s basically just a building full of servers with extra AC units.
Inside? Loud AF (think: Jet engine. Wear hearing protection).
Outside: The hum of lots of industrial air conditioning units. Only marginally louder than a big office building.
A data center this big is going to have a lot more AC units than normal but they’ll be spread all around the building. It’s not like living next to an airport or busy train tracks (that’s like 100x worse).
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I think its more that their power bills are going to go up 3x.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah data centers they are building here give two fucks about noise canceling. They are as loud on the outside.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Not all datacenters bother with noise abaitment.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Depends. Normally yes (I’ve been in data centers like you’re talking about), but because it’s likely using GPUs for the LLM it’s probably considerably louder. Closer to this, which is a crypto mine: theweek.com/…/the-noise-of-bitcoin-mining-is-driv…
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t look like it will even be a single building. For a site that size they’re going to need maintenance buildings and a power plant, grounds crews, security, climate services, offices, cafeteria, reception; probably put some R&D labs out there. It’s almost certainly not going to be one huge monolith, although it will certainly be mostly server buildings.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The noise is one of the least egregious effects of a data center. Utility costs are going to be a much bigger indicator of the data center’s impact on the area.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was watching Some More News segment on it today. Those fuckers are loud.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No joke, some worker on another thread tried to gaslight people telling them it just air conditioning and not bad. I wanted to tell them to get fucked.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What a inefficient use of land, let alone what’s being built on it.
Honestly I would probably prefer data centers built in old open pit mines before the mine gets filled back in.
Or maybe build them in Alaska for example where it’s cold, or space like a halo?
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
before the mine gets filled back in.
That has to be prevented from happening, and those mines have pumps in them. Otherwise land around gets poisoned (and also eroded).
So putting useful objects inside those mines at least makes them not just passive expense.
If someone wants to know what if you just don’t pump the water out of an unused mine, leaving it be, then they can read what happens in Donbass now that nobody takes care of those many depleted mines there, due to war. It’s like Mordor basically.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Since the person above didn’t actually give enough information for someone to understand:
Look up “Acid Mine Drainage”. Its when sulfide minerals react with water and oxygen to produce sukfuric acid, and it occurs in pretty much every mine once it’s opened, and continues to accrue and leak for thousands of years. Ancient Roman mines are still leaking the toxic, acidic sludge today, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
vinyl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s cheap to build on that land and labor is cheap and less legal fight against the company if some fuckup happens
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If someone made a giant datacenter on my private minecraft server, what would be the best way to sabotage it?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Poisoning the concrete. Slow but effective when they start loading the heavy equipment.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Not easy to do since it’ll require access to a controlled construction site.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
This is cartoonishly ridiculous
brooke592@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Kinda crazy how this was all built on an ad empire.
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
A pity it just allows comparing with us addresses
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There are people living outside the USA?
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s as long as the city I live in from top to bottom.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Did they purposefully name it after the dystopian borderlands Corporation?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
These guys usually name their shit after science fiction novels that they didn’t understand the themes of. This is likely named after the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons.
jambudz@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well, hopefully we’ll get a shrike and it’ll put all the billionaires in the tree of pain.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Its the tormentus nexus
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Release the shrike!
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
They're openly saying it, mocking the masses
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
or after the titan, because its “huge”
b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I think there’s some prior art (about 100y) by a poet named Hölderlin.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I’d say more like a couple thousand years
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(mythology)
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Probably