Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power – And You’re Not Fucking Invited

Oh look, the tech oligarchs are at it again. Meta just wrote a check for TEN BILLION DOLLARS—because apparently “billion” is the new “million” when you’re monetizing human misery—to buy 100,000+ of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs. That’s right, while you’re scraping together pocket change for a 4090 to run Stable Diffusion porn, Zuck’s buying enough silicon to simulate an entire universe of virtual Karens complaining about their digital lattes.

This isn’t a “deal,” sunshine. This is digital fucking feudalism. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has become the arms dealer of the AI age, and he’s selling exclusively to the five families: Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI’s sugar daddy. Everyone else hits the “computing wall”—which is corporate-speak for “go pound sand, peasant.” Your plucky little startup can innovate all it wants, but without a quarter-million-dollar hardware budget, you’re essentially competing with a butter knife in a nuclear war.

And the best part? CUDA. Sweet, sweet vendor lock-in. Nvidia’s software stack is so deeply embedded in every fucking AI workflow that even if AMD or Intel shat out a chip made of pure magic and unicorn tears, nobody could switch. The entire industry has voluntarily chained itself to Nvidia’s basement wall and handed them the whip. It’s Stockholm syndrome with PCIe lanes.

Power consumption? Each Blackwell GPU draws more juice than a Las Vegas casino. Meta’s new “cluster”—a word that fails to capture the sheer environmental vandalism of this operation—will single-handedly offset every solar panel in California. But sure, let’s pretend we care about climate change while training neural networks to generate slightly better cat pictures.

The geopolitical theater is just the diarrhea frosting on this shit cake. Uncle Sam’s treating these chips like they’re fissile material, slapping export controls on them while the tech giants build their digital empires. China can’t have them, Europe can’t afford them, and everyone else gets to watch the new Gilded Age happen behind a paywall thicker than a manager’s skull.

So welcome to the “new era”—where computing power is concentrated so thoroughly that democracy starts looking like a rounding error. We’ve replaced innovation with capital accumulation, and the only thing getting disrupted is your dreams of competing fairly. But hey, at least the ads will be more personalized!

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidias-deal-with-meta-signals-a-new-era-in-computing-power/

Some marketing drone actually pinged me this morning asking if our department could “leverage Meta’s GPU infrastructure for synergistic content optimization.” I told him I’d be delighted to help, provided he could first configure a SLURM cluster using only his LinkedIn profile and a positive attitude. He asked if there was a template. There’s now a template—in the trash, next to his job prospects. I’m currently using his request as a training dataset for my new “Automated Career Suicide Prediction Model.” It’s going splendidly.

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