• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    The issue being discussed was Malta running out of energy because of AI data centers. It will not. Nor will we in the rest of Europe. Regular data centers aren’t filled to the brim with power hungry GPU servers. They’re also not very good for running AI workloads.

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      9 hours ago

      No, the chain of comment had switched to where the servers are located. Someone claimed overseas, and that was the topic of this chain, then.

      The chain of comment specifically mentions that no one is claiming it will run on AI datacenters.

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        6 hours ago

        The AI runs on AI data centers. Why would you run it on hardware that isn’t actually efficient for the workload? It’d cost more for less performance.

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          … No. That’s not how it works. AI datacenters are just datacenters with a very heavy focus on GPUs and TPUs. We have plenty of datacenters with GPU and TPU offerings in Europe, just no datacenter that is fully dedicated to it.