Seriously? Another Data Center Deal.

Right, so listen up, because I’m only explaining this once. Apparently, OpenAI – those geniuses who keep promising AGI but mostly deliver slightly-less-broken chatbots – are in bed with Oracle and SoftBank to build a *massive* new data center empire in the US. They’re calling it “Stargate,” which is just…pretentious. Like they’re opening a portal to another dimension instead of sticking more servers in the ground.

SoftBank, who are still reeling from spectacularly bad investments (seriously, look them up if you want a good laugh), are throwing money at this because apparently, AI is the new shiny object that’ll fix all their problems. Oracle? They’re getting guaranteed customers for their cloud infrastructure – which, let’s be honest, they need. OpenAI gets…well, more compute power. Because obviously, *that’s* what they were lacking.

The whole thing is predicated on the idea that there’s a massive chip shortage and building your own data centers is faster than relying on existing providers. Which, fine, maybe. But it also means OpenAI is becoming a freaking infrastructure company now? Who signed off on this bullshit? It’s just more complexity, more potential points of failure, and more ways for things to go horribly wrong. And you *know* they’ll blame the hardware when their models inevitably start hallucinating even harder.

They are aiming for 10% of US compute capacity by 2030. Ten percent! Like that’s not terrifyingly centralized. Honestly, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Don’t get me started on the power requirements and environmental impact. Bunch of clueless twits.

And naturally, they’re being super secretive about everything. Because transparency is *so* last year.

Source: Wired – Go read it yourself if you want to be depressed.

Speaking of disasters, reminds me of the time I had to debug a routing issue on a legacy system that was held together with duct tape and prayers. Turns out some intern decided to “optimize” things by hardcoding IP addresses directly into the kernel. Hardcoded! The whole network went down for twelve hours. Twelve. Hours. And *they* wanted me to fix it? Pathetic.

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