• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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        1 month ago

        Going to take you a lot of time with a soldering iron. These are soldered HBM2 chips, not the DDR DIMMs you want. Still manufactured in the same facilities so they hold up that manufacturing capacity but can’t really be repurposed.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Not even that. The threat of a missile was enough to close the strait of Hormuz. They didn’t need to blow up every ship… Targeting a single ship, alongside an announcement that more is to come, would have been enough. It’s the risk that has the lasting effect, and I think it could only take a single well-motivated person to reproduce those results with data centers.

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      1 month ago

      I mean if you gonna use violence just fight Alt-Man and his villainous brotherhood. Keeping the datacenters will probably spur the economy once they aren’t used for AI anymore and the compute will become available for general use. Like when the internet bubble burst they put way more fiber lines into the ground than they used at the time but eventually the overcapacity came to good use. Scientists are always in need for compute to run their simulations.