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That is not business demand.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/
Nov 22, 2025 11:40 AM
cryborg
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That is not business demand.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/
kit99aLucentum
Sounds like something the AI itself would say it needs in order to achieve singularity.
TyrannusEquus
The "AI" isn't even right. I was trying to figure out a part on a project and it just picked the wrong one. Not even close.
RElGNMAN
The bubble getting closer to bursting yet?
orangekick
I keep disabling every attempt to have any "AI" functions on any of my devices. It's flawed, garbage software.
Navrodel
"Hey, we're turning off the opt out on another service, and are going to start scanning everyone's 10 year backlog for any evidence they might like a hot chocolate. Oh, yeah, the models seem to be chugging, can you just double the world's computational capacity? These users are really hooked on AI!"
The only ones addicted to AI are the ones that are dumber than the models they keep pushing...
UrbanCowboyGuns
They really mean is, build more data centers in rural communities and destroy our water supplies and hike up our electric bills.
ImHereToGetDownvotes
AI is going to doom this world, not because it's intelligent and will rule over us, but because it will jack up our prices insanely on the energy front while also cooking the earth.
TKBold
Nah. Let it burn, homie.
FortifiedWhine
It still blows my mind that cryptocurrency and AI requires *so* much water and energy simply to tell us that Elon Musk can drink piss better than anyone else.
Briarcastle
These companies know that they're pushing a bad product that the majority of people don't want. They've already wasted so much money that their only real option is to make it "too big to fail" and make it the problem of governments to cover the costs.
eastend666
I am so proactively avoiding AI I can't begin to tell you.
TofuGolem
AI needs to die now. This is destroying the planet.
VodkaReindeer
Ad companies are users, too.
OnFridaysWeWearBeskar
FFS, what do you think that does to the power grid and water supply? All so we can get AI that tells us for stringier pizza to put Elmer's glue in the cheese. Someone needs to go Sarah Connor on these people.
IHateItH3r3
i can't wait for AI to crumble and all the companies that fired their employees will be screwed
TheMilliner
Every new article about "Guys, we need so much infrastructure to do AI stuff" always boils down to "So don't do the obviously stupid AI stuff and this wouldn't be an issue with existing infrastructure".
NaughtButOne
The 'problem' is if they don't do the obviously stupid AI stuff, they're going to lose a LOT of money because they all got WAY too horny WAY too fast and blew their loads putting everything on some AI tech revolution that isn't going to happen. So now they're doing shit like this to try and force it, and it's not gonna work either, but in the meantime, they're going to destroy so many products and do so much environmental damage, all because they can't admit they fucked up.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Tubes!
literallymike
They have investors to consider, after all...
mindstorm8191
Investors only care about growth. They all plan to jump ship (aka sell it all) before it all crashes.
Some won't be able to
chata954
So exponential growth? Simple three brain cells activity tells us that that is not sustainable. Goddammit
Tarmaccian
Yep. That growth only lasted for like 50 years with CPUs.
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
CPUs did not experience exponential growth, they experienced logarithmic growth.
Exponential growth is fundamentally impossible on any appreciable scale within physical reality. You can do things that ostensibly appear to experience exponential growth within a certain band pass, but when you zoom out, it's either logarithmic or logistic growth.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Customers
Don’t
Want
AI
jt42
*ignorant customers. Just like the calculator, smartphone, and internet before AI, if you don't adapt, you "die" --- or become Amish. Even easier access to info, plan a vacation, write music, automate just by talking, better city planning, self-driving cars. I fail to see why customers don't want AI... We all have microwaves as a result of military spending. Even if you disagree with military budget, you got a benefit, and same is true of AI.
ourari
So glad I finished moving myself out of the Google ecosystem about 10 years ago.
chata954
Tell us how
ourari
How I did it won't fit into Imgur comments, but if I had to start today, I'd use https://privacyguid">.org">https://privacyguides.org and https://alternativeto.net as my guides to better alternatives.
ourari
Just tackle one thing at a time. Try a new browser this week. Try a new search engine next week. Move your e-mail the week after. Etc.
Skyff
Oh yay, more greenhouse gasses, just what we need
nomadengineer
Don't forget the e-waste and water usage
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
Yep. Climate experts were ringing alarm bells because Google's total carbon footprint increased by 50% over a mere 5 years due to AI that no one asked for or needed. Now they threaten to DOUBLE it EVERY YEAR. This is the point where activists need to start blowing up datacenters. If legislators sit on their hands when they aren't cashing checks, this is the only way.
kraeftig
More than double a year, double twice in the year. 1yr =4x, 2yr=16x, 3yr=64x, 4yr=256x, 5yr=1024x
whywritemythesiswhenihaveinternet
I actually think strategic, constant, and random sabotage to power lines and water intake/outlets would be more feasible.
TheTojo15
We will maybe see a rise in ecoterrorism in the following years is my guess
Unfortunate500
The place I'm at just added AI metrics to the developers to punish people who don't use AI enough.
It's a bit dystopian.
zach14332718
Hey sounds familiar haha. For me, the ai usage is self reporting and how they determine if AI helped or not is a hilariously flawed system.
cearn
Grab one of the AI agents and make it ask random questions to whatever AI they're measuring on.
Pokegeologist
When we had our big users conference with our software vendor, I was the only one on the team who's stuck with not a single process that could be automated. I legit can't make use of AI at this time. The suggestion of letting AI scan my civil plans and input the utility models from those plans is nonsense because the line types, specs, and dimensions aren't written on every line. You have to know which callouts from the details sheets goes where. Same for the CAD models.
GeneralPrower
So, an AI usage quota?
Quit.
Quit right fucking now.
thundercactus
They *want* you vibe coding? I mean if upper management is ordering you to ruin the company, I guess you have to? lol
Vkiwi2
point to COD, yeah... forcing ai doesn't help sales
FoamingToad
I work for a government department in the uk. The sheer suckfest and wankery management has over ai is appalling. So you get code from a hallucinating robot, how are you supposed to verify it's correctness? Answer: ask ai to guarantee it. Thank you so very fucking much.
Pokegeologist
Wait until you have to justify feeding it confidential or secure compartmentalized data that you know is being sent to an offsite server you don't control and is used to build a data model others can see. If I showed a third party contractor that same data and sent them out with copies, I'd lose my security clearance, my job, and pay a >$10k fine. Make it make sense.
cryborg
Wow. That's just stupid.
choppedliveraldente
Everything has been stupid for like, ever. I'm so tired.
chewballs
Are Luddites still a thing and do they have a website or something with a sign up sheet /s
VibratingNipples
I really hope the AI bubble burst very soon
jt42
An Apple report suggests AI capabilities have peaked. However, I think the usage of the current capabilities has not, but that will have to peak as well.
HowlingRollercoaster2
Please let me sell my house and GTFO first
cytherians
It's going to be far worse than the mortgage backed securities bubble of 2008...
Skywatcher16
yeah, the the longer before it pops, the worse its gonna get. the sooner the better. its already been too long.
nclu
It's going to be a bloodbath. I've already moved my 401k into international index funds and bonds trying to batten down the hatches for when the storm hits.
VibratingNipples
I brought real gold with half of my savings. Gold historically is more stable than the dollar
VibratingNipples
It will be like ripping off a giant bandaid. It won't be pretty, but I do believe it is inevitable. It just a matter of when
rugmibackward
In part because they are using the same financial instruments, but through venture capital firms, so when they default there is nothing to take posession of.
SisyphusRollin
Yeah, you having to deal with AI popping up like an add is totally equal to people losing their homes and going broke. Totally same thing, like you're both suffering the same. We can't wait for that right?
cytherians
You are missing the whole point. It's the businesses that are heavily invested in AI. Tremendous money has been put in it. And if the bubble bursts with Trump in office? He's going to BAIL OUT all of those major companies, using taxpayer money, doubling the debt. It'll be absolute financial mayhem. US credit rating will tank. US dollar will fall. We'll be fucked.
pelaaja0
It'd be so funny if they paid for the capacity beforehand and got stuck with it when the AI bubble bursts.
khora
"Oh, no. At lot of excess computing capacity." said no one.
ChelVanin
It’d be a joke on all of us, cuz we’re all paying for it.
pelaaja0
Paying how? Even longer ads on youtube? We'll now have to click on page 2 of google because page 1 is all ads?
GreasedPrimate
We foot the Bill for the energy and water costs. The infrastructure isn’t necessarily designed for the amount of usage requested
ProjectDA
or the funds for improvements was stolen. that happened for my state
ChelVanin
Just to start, we’re paying in terms of environmental effects. The energy/water needs of those data centers are enormous and will completely erase all gains made towards fighting climate change.
cytherians
Not to mention a rise in utility bills...
Infinias
Well a fucked earth is a long term problem. The bursting AI bubble is a short term problem and that way the financial world is interconnected, this will be a major fuck up when it happens with immediate direct impact to all people worldwide.
Raoul97533
I hate getting AI Bullshit shoved down my throat at every point... had to switch my whole youtube setup to english, because every seconds fucking video started to play with that aweful AI translation audio, which I couldnt just ignore like the crappy translated titles...
Fuck this whole AI Bullshit...
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
FreeTube friends. And if enough content you like is on it Nebula.
mcoulter876
I've never had this problem
WarlockSniper
Even my fucking lessons are AI translation WHICH DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF THE FUCKING LESSON!
I so hate that bullshit, I don't want it in my OS> I don't want it in my videos. I don't want it in my fucking music.
adventureswithadhd
As a teacher, it’s getting shoved down our throats too. So annoying and we don’t want it!
boxbackknitties
Boycott yt if you are able.
BallSoupHumidity
Tubular is a good alternative on your phone. From the Hub of Git.
Smittywerbenjagermenjenson
Its so annoying, im learning Japanese, and German, and speak French, yet all of these vids that I WANT in these languages just get dubbed over for no godamn reason, and to top it off, you cant switch the audio track like half the time on mobile, it just doesnt work. So godamn stupid
WarlockSniper
Exactly this.
Fuck, I listen to ASMR I don't understand. Super relaxing, especially languages with certain phonetic sounds like Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Then SOMEHOW a few videos get an AI dub and it stops being a nice gentle whisper and just this painfully fake robotic bullshit noise blaring in my ear, ripping the entire aesthetic to shreds.
FUCK OFF WITH THIS! ARGH!
Xenarion
I feel that. I'm bilingual but Youtube only allows one language. I almost skipped over some videos that had auto-translated titles.
Xenarion
I ended up adding a plugin on my browser to restore non-translated titles.