News China's AI data center boom goes bust: Rush leaves billions of dollars in idle infrastructure

[Admin]

China's rush to build AI data centers in 2023–2024 has collapsed into underused infrastructure, falling profits, and outdated facilities.

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[dalek1234]

What?! Are my eyes deceiving me? THD has actually published an article about something bad in china, instead of peddling chinese government's sponsored state-propaganda full of Bee-Ehss.

Hell just froze over.

It's actually worth clicking on the article link now.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

I'm still in the "AI is a bubble" boat.

It'll turn out to be Search 2.0.

Which is a whole lot better than what we have today, but it's far from "intelligent".

 

[Lieutenant Barclay]

I'm still in the "AI is a bubble" boat.

It'll turn out to be Search 2.0.

Which is a whole lot better than what we have today, but it's far from "intelligent".

That's how I feel. The idea that these machines are "thinking for themselves" or have any kind of agenda is ridiculous. The hype level reminds me of "the God particle" and all the crap about the large hadron collider (apparently dyslexia wasn't considered when naming that thing)

 

[husker]

That's how I feel. The idea that these machines are "thinking for themselves" or have any kind of agenda is ridiculous. The hype level reminds me of "the God particle" and all the crap about the large hadron collider (apparently dyslexia wasn't considered when naming that thing)

The AI industry doesn't claim that AI is in anyway sentient or "thinking for themselves". As far as AI having some kind of an agenda - please save that for Sci Fi entertainment. Many people know what E=MC^2 means, but did not derive or think of the equation on their own. Nor did they derive the vast majority of their knowledge "for themselves". Instead, they learned it from some source material and have the ability to apply it in some way as requested. Sounds a lot like AI to me.

Edit: If computers ever do reach a point of sentience and thinking for themselves with an agenda, then it won't be called "Artificial Intelligence", it will just be "Non-biological Intelligence" because there won't be anything artificial about it. A twist on a phrase from Forest Gump: Intelligence is as intelligence does.

 

[DS426]

So what I'm hearing is that Alibaba and ByteDance should purchase some to many of these AI datacenters and modify them for their needs, costing them pennies on the dollar (well, yuan of course) as their current owners would surely love to get bailed out at this point (besides the CCP just bailing them out).