Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoAn entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoAn entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.