Post #26785
2025-12-03 16:39 UTC
Replies (8)
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@partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2025-12-03 16:53
I heard ram pricing is high. There’s their use, an economic one.
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@fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2025-12-03 17:18
So you’re saying mining crypto is gonna come back into fashion?
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@scarabic@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 17:52
Trillions of dollars worth of compute mining dogecoin
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@AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 18:11
You mean like a crazy ai surveillance program? I take it with a grain of salt but I heard ppl say that’s how they caught Luigi. They have some super secret prototype program “eye in the sky” thing and they just said it was a mc d’s worker as cover.
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@randy@lemmy.ca 2025-12-03 18:13
I believe that’s pretty much what happened after the dot-com crash. A lot of fiber was laid during the bubble, it went dormant after the crash, but it was useful afterward as the internet continued growing.
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2025-12-03 21:28
After .com popped, all the money ran to install fiber data infrastructure - a lot of installs put in more capacity than they projected using for 100 years (glass fibers are cheap, digging trenches for them is expensive). The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday.
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@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-03 16:55
Meanwhile the planet is dying from all the increased emissions from data center usage.
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@ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-03 18:17
Oh, they totally will. It'll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we'll go through the third or fourth round of this. Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial bakeries.