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"The AI companies and related enterprises are currently spending huge amounts
in capital expenditures (CAPEX) to build “Gigawatt” class data centers for
various AI-related development.
The scale of the investment is so large it is distorting the economy. These
massive expenditures, however, are shortly going to prove to be at least a
half-trillion-dollar money pit: these massive data centers are simply not fit
for purpose.
But to understand why this is a waste of money, it is critical to discuss two
technologies: machine learning (ML) in general and large language models (LLMs)
in particular."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
