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@cbecker@hci.social

2026-03-28 20:41 UTC

Amazing how many headlines parrot the corporate framing that Meta's new Hyperion data center would "deliver gigawatts of power" - "AI data center ... will deliver five gigawatts of computational power to fuel the company's new AI" ❌ "[data center will] supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts of computational power" ❌ No. NO. Don't do that. Hyperion will *consume* 5GW of power, including three NEW new gas-turbine power plants, in order to run giant toxic content sludge generators. 💩 ✔

Replies (5)

  • @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-28 22:20

    @cbecker@hci.social Journalists stopped being actual journalists several years ago. All they do now is 'polish' the corporate press releases, and then uncritically stick them into the 'news'. Not *journalism*, just a cross between copy-typists, and AI-slop.

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  • @claudius@darmstadt.social 2026-03-28 23:34

    @cbecker@hci.social it's ridiculous that we even started listing electrical power. It's the most meaningless thing about a datacenter. It says precisely nothing about what it can do, because what 5GW will yield depends SO MUCH on the ever-shifting technology.

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  • @dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net 2026-03-29 03:46

    @cbecker@hci.social This is assuming, of course, that they ever finish it and turn it on. Which they likely won't.

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  • @Rycochet@furs.social 2026-03-29 07:49

    @cbecker@hci.social We're in the age of access journalism, 'print this with the correct spin and you may get a genuine exclusive interview every now and then and find yourself a seat at press events, question it and you will only get boilerplate responses going forward.'

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  • @snowing_mb@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 11:16

    @cbecker@hci.social now let's see how they manage to make this look good in their next "sustainability" report

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