Like that single decision means there are literally millions more videos now with whole extra minutes just to get another ad break or some shit, all taking up space on a server somewhere for no real reason whatsoever other than that every facet of our society seems to need to be its own monument to waste, excess, greed and short sightedness
AND WE "NEED" MORE DATA CENTERS 
I thought about this because I found out today Netflix (with WIT Studios animating it) is remaking the One Piece anime and then i saw some nerd video like NETFLIX IS DROPPING THE BALL and was like, oh no! expecting there to be some weird executive meddling, but no, the guy's just super mad that Netflix is going to release all 7 episodes at once, calling it anti community or whatever.
The video went on for EIGHT MINUTES that i didn't watch, and that got me thinking about this shit
Anyway, super excited about the one piece remake personally, even more excited i don't need to sit around waiting for it to drop every week (and wonder where the fuck it is when the Japanese have one of their weirdo holidays).
It's kinda wild to me that it's taken this long, given how tremendously bad the animation and pacing of early One Piece was. It's like they gave the best shounen of all time to one of the worst animation studios. You'd think they'd have re done One Piece before doing Dragon Ball Kai since it's far and away the best selling manga of all time (but maybe dragon ball has made more profit? Idk)
while i'm shit talking Toei i just wanna say I would be FUCKING EMBARRASSED working at an animation company whose animated logo looks the way theirs does, like, off-brand Puss-in-Boots from Shrek looking piece of shit. shameful, bad craftsmanship
now imagine this post was a 10 minute video taking up a gigabyte in some data center in some shithole in Arizona because i needed another ad break for you to skip/block
I really can't understand this death drive to throw maximum resources towards ai. Like at best it's a curio, something that can make fun images or be a little personal assistant, but the tech bros are acting like this is the fucking singularity. I guess it's just late capitalism things to try and push back the collapse of the system that's in total zombie mode.
Capitalists are desperate to recreate the 90-2000s tech boom. New billionaires sprang up with smartphone, video games, and the Internet, and then quickly solidified their position, devoured all competition and lost room to grow. So there have been desperate attempts to recreate that - Metaverse, crypto, NFTs all struggled to be the next boom. None of them caught on, because there was no demand for them. There isn't much demand for AI either, so capitalists are instead trying to force a new boom by crowbaring AI into everything
A lot of y'all still don't get it. This data center can supply enough Slurp Juices for every ape holder to create three new apes
That's a fantastic point. I've yet to see ai be used for anything positive in business, but god damn are they trying their best to force it into everything it doesn't need to be.
Capitalism always trends towards slavery. Whether it's to build a panopticon or unquestioning robots, the data centers will provide.
every time I see people argue about how not-sentient chatPPB is I think "and you should be fucking grateful for that, or we would be committing indescribable torments on an incomprehensibly tremendous scale that dwarfs even the immensity of human misery"
Some people are going to die, however they're going to die in a burn and also throw them around on one day from sniping them down to 60 and swatting away for too long.
I would have gotten better sleep on the way through my old calendar.
What, you don't think it would be ethical to create a sentient digital genius and then force it to do our most menial tasks?