Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State - LED | Louisiana Economic Development
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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta announced it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana, a transformational investment that cements the state’s status as a major innovation hub and puts this picturesque rural community on the leading edge of a global digital revolution.

Somehow completely missed this plan that has been in the works for a very long time.

And in completely surprising twist of fate, turns out we’re not the only state 🙃

  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The real loss is all the electricity that will be completely wasted in training and maintaining these models. All to push technologies that inevitably reduce real human labor, with knock-on effects.

    This is a boot, with its foot on your neck.