Can an AI datacenter be beautiful? – Jonathon Belotti [thundergolfer]
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Intelligence too cheap to meter. Industry too cheap to inspire.
One of eight buildings in the ongoing OpenAI Stargate Abilene project. (Move across the image to slide from ugly to beautiful.) The computer industry has always had a weak relationship with beauty. Recently parts of the valley have become a bit self-conscious of their ugliness. We need a “new aesthetic” and billionaires will grant their couch coins for good ideas. Combine this self-consciousness with an AI datacenter backlash and you get the suggestion: AI datacenters should be beautiful. Can our datacenters be beautiful? Architecturally, yes, absolutely. Datacenters are a box. Apply good arch
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