Comment on Discusssion Thread 🇳🇴 Saturday 29 August 2026
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 month agoThe current explosion in data centre expansion closely aligns with the explosion in AI services. So yes I agree that there must be a connection. Two years ago 8 billion people we were doing banking, using cloud computing services, streaming movies, storing 10000 work emails each, and all the behind the scenes industry needs, and that did not not need anywhere near the amount of data centres we do today. The AIs are very very hungry.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Not every DC is an LLM DC. Keep reading that line until you get it.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wow, that’s rude. Clearly I didn’t say that? Since you know so much, what specifically are the 37 new data centres planned for Vic going to be used for? And why did we need so fewer of them only a year or two ago? Sure there will be varied uses but a huge amount must AI. AI is a tool, it’s not good or evil, and it’s here to stay. Most people understand that too, but at the same time they are observant and right to be asking questions about location, infrastructure, impact to power and water use, and public amenity. Which is why it is a topic of public debate.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Rude? I stated the fact that people are conflating datacentres as a whole with llm dcs.
you decided to construct a shitty, ranty strawman in response. That’s on you. I don’t care. It’s nothing to do with what i fucking said.
Not every DC is an LLM DC. Read that line until it sinks in.