ChatGPT suffered a worldwide outage from 06:36 UTC Tuesday morning. The servers weren’t totally down, but queries kept returning errors. OpenAI finally got it mostly fixed later in the day. [OpenAI…
I work in one of those AI data centers. Remarkably little storage. And the servers are astonishingly specialized for the job. Not to mention power hungry. I’d much rather have a gen10 Proliant. Or a few NUCs and a qnap.
They have different data centers for storage (AI doesn’t need much), but you’re right, it’s all unbelievably specialized to the point of being basically useless for any purpose that it wasn’t specifically designed for. We really have been spoiled with how general purpose our computing infrastructure has been up until now. That’s simply not how things are scaling up anymore.
So all that breathless reporting I’ve been reading lately about how the AI boom is causing a hard drive shortage is bullshit just like the AIs themselves? Can’t say as I’m surprised one way or the other.
I work in one of those AI data centers. Remarkably little storage. And the servers are astonishingly specialized for the job. Not to mention power hungry. I’d much rather have a gen10 Proliant. Or a few NUCs and a qnap.
They have different data centers for storage (AI doesn’t need much), but you’re right, it’s all unbelievably specialized to the point of being basically useless for any purpose that it wasn’t specifically designed for. We really have been spoiled with how general purpose our computing infrastructure has been up until now. That’s simply not how things are scaling up anymore.
So all that breathless reporting I’ve been reading lately about how the AI boom is causing a hard drive shortage is bullshit just like the AIs themselves? Can’t say as I’m surprised one way or the other.
It gets pretty crazy when it comes to storage.
A very profitable product in any format. Humans like collecting stuff.
They really don’t need storage except for the models and training data right? And most of that isnt theirs to begin with so why store it?
The less you have, the less you are burdened by.
This concept also applies to nefarious or predatory activities in the name of big daddy dollar or count currency.