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Would be interesting long term if this sways public opinion about data centers in Malta. I do support though AI literacy in general and this is a good step. Wou
by zitterbewegung 5mo ago
Would be interesting long term if this sways public opinion about data centers in Malta. I do support though AI literacy in general and this is a good step. Would wonder about the deal in how much this is actually costing Malta if at all.
- purrcat259 5mo agoUnlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5mo agoAs a complete layman, I do wonder why you would bother building a datacenter at a place that everyone agrees is going to be basically underwater in the next 50-100 years.
- IncreasePosts 5mo agoYou're thinking of the maldives.
- rileymat2 5mo agoWouldn’t 45 to 95 years of use be plenty of time for ROI?
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- purrcat259 5mo agoThe coasts will definitely be wiped in 100 years but underwater is a bit of an overstatement
- fragmede 5mo agoalthough, Microsoft did a whole experiment with underwater data centers, so maybe there's lessons from there that could be applied.
- preisschild 5mo agoOpenAI is inherently incentivized to sell as much LLM compute as possible, that is not neutral "AI literacy". You don't let tobacco companies make anti smoking education either.
- charcircuit 5mo ago>You don't let tobacco companies make anti smoking education either. Many jurisdictions literally force them to put education on the boxes.
- zamadatix 5mo agoEducation written by the government about the risks, not the tobacco company about why cigarettes are great. Hence why the tobacco companies weren't keen on it.
- Yokohiii 5mo agoWhat has this to do with AI literacy?
- emsign 5mo agoData centers in a country that has barely enough water and electricity for its citizens? That is utterly ridiculous. This AI hype is going crazy, it's all an insane joke, right?
- tomwojcik 5mo agoMalta makes money with igaming and money laundering. There's literally no other businesses there, other than basic necessities, and even these barely work. It's only focused on entertainment. They import food and water. Malta is very hot during the summer. There's AC unit everywhere and it's a default cooling unit as well, as there's no "European winter" there. Everyone collects rain water and stores it on the roof. They are one tsunami away from being decimated. There's one company renting servers and it's full of online casinos, just so the companies meet the regulatory requirement. Malta is the worst place on earth to have a data center I can think of.
- vasco 5mo agoYou forgot tourism which is their largest money maker.
- tomwojcik 5mo agoTourism is relatively big there but only relatively to the population numbers. I'd argue gambling contributes more to the GDP, while tourism only keeps the light on on the economy. Tourism allows the citizens to make money but it's a small country so it doesn't scale. Gambling scales globally. I have no numbers to back this up.
- chrisandchris 5mo agoBut the internet does, and it is 12% for gambling, against 15-25% for tourism (whichever source you believe). [1] https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-15-billion-question-is-gambling-still-malta-best-bet-a2.1117799 https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-15-billion-question-is-... [2] https://www.emcs.com.mt/emcs-tourism-malta-economy/ https://www.emcs.com.mt/emcs-tourism-malta-economy/
- vasco 5mo agoTourism scales globally in the same way unless you mean the island would be at 100% occupancy rate already. Also my point is it's hard to trust you when you ignore the top export while talking about exports.
- lpcvoid 5mo ago[dead]