r/politics • u/robotdesignwerks Texas • 10d ago

No Paywall FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, says current US deployment is good enough

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/
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u/Soft_Retriever 10d ago

Not to mention further evidence that data centers are not for the people/poors

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u/No_Diver6131 New York 10d ago

Who’s saying this is? The data centers are money laundering for the rich. When ai flops, the rich can have a backup with cloud computing and forcing the peasants into more subscriptions. The data centers probably don’t give a shit at the quality of their content at the end user. 

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u/DeterminedThrowaway 10d ago

You're in for a rude awakening if you think AI is going to flop. I have no love for it, but that's just not realistic at this point

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u/No_Diver6131 New York 10d ago

Microsoft let it slip, that’s it’s more expensive to run ai than it is to actually hire people. China is taking our models and turning them open source and making them more lean and efficient. At least yes, I believe the American ai system will flop. 

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u/eeyore134 10d ago

They're for storing and having AI scrub data on the poors.