Data Centers - Abandoned JC Penney Malls Coming To Your Neighborhood
Stranded assets in your neighborhood - data centers - are now a certainty
When those county commissioners sold you and your friends on that great big shopping mall in your area, the picture they showed you looked something like this:
What they did not foresee, and neither did you - was at the very time investor groups were funding a 2 year mall construction, there was a massive, although subtle technology shift happening.
That shift made malls like this obsolete - and obsolete is forever - AT THE VERY TIME THEY WERE BEING BUILT.
Nobody saw it or felt it - you didn’t of course, but the world started moving slowly to cyber shopping - to Amazon and Walmart.com - and within a year of the mall being finished, it started to shut down.
The mall you were promised closed because the underlying reasons that supported its creation - shopping in a physical store - were replaced - slowly at first, then all at once as they say - and now you - have a different picture - here:
Today those same county commissioners, governors, and even President Trump are selling you the same dream - that if you allow a data center to be built in your neighborhood, A.I. will emerge at scale and America will thrive.
Counties and states and even neighborhoods are fighting back after they see the appalling devastation caused by data centers.
Drinking water goes brown and people cannot do their laundry.
Electric rates skyrocket a year before the first electron hits a server - with more to come.
Data centers create few jobs - deliver no economic benefit to your area after they devastate the land.
Beautiful land is destroyed forever - because once you build a data center, everything around it serves its needs.
A data center can often consume over 500,000 gallons of water a day - to cool those servers.
The same data center uses the electric power of a town of 25,000 - and now most data centers are a campus, so multiply those numbers by 3 or 4 or more.
Here’s a Twitter video on the catastrophic consequences from Georgia data centers:
https://x.com/AmericaOme17300/status/1913223184343576648?s=20
America already has over 1,000 times, even a million times the compute power it needs for A.I - and no more data centers are needed.
The reason you do not know that is because the data center industry joined by 1980s obsolete tech vendors and the tech press - need data centers - A.I. does not.
We are the first ones to tell you this - and to show you we are not cranks - you likely already were served - well - from some of our technologies.
Members of our team built the eBay fraud detection engine - stopping scammers from ripping you off in internet auctions.
Some of our tech was used in the TSA No Fly List, stopping terrorists from blowing up your plane.
If you use State Farm, GEICO, USAA and a half dozen other insurers, our technology was used to stop the Somali guys who drive in front of your Lexus, hit the brakes, causing a fender bender - for which you got charged - and they submitted about 300 fake claims.
Our technology - Fractal - is used by major government organizations and corporations - and the core of our message, from our entire community is America does NOT need more data centers for A.I.
We may be in your town soon, because we are being brought in by attorneys fighting back against the worldwide scam that data centers everywhere are needed for A.I.
We show up and run a data center equivalent - on an 8 inch by 8 inch Apple Computer - showing everyone in the room - including the lawyers from Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle - there is no application on the planet that requires a data center.
You were told America faces a stark choice - either give up your lifestyle, land, neighborhood for the good of A.I. for people you never met - or America will fall behind in A.I. and terrible things will happen.
That is nonsense - and we prove it to be nonsense every day - so let’s get started.
Let’s get into “why.”
Data centers exist for only one reason - to process I/O intensive applications - in particular relational databases - in very particular - Oracle.
What is I/O?
I/O means input/output.
When you hit the enter key, the computer sends an instruction (I/O event) to a database or several.
Those databases have lots of data only a tiny fraction of which is relevant to your inquiry. So the database pings different files (each being an I/O event) and puts together your answer.
I/O is what all current applications do over 98% of the time.
They do it particularly badly - so badly that the CPU core (the brain) - when measured with instruments - works less than a government worker on a lunch break.
Most of the time the CPU is doing no useful effort - it is waiting for an I/O instruction.
Oracle and current technology are massively I/O intensive - because of this thing called the relational model.
Oracle, and all relational databases are artifacts of the 1970s - or early 80s.
Moore’s Law says computers get faster by making chips smaller (so the electrons travel shorter distances).
Systems like Oracle and other relational systems behaved just fine - because chips ran faster and faster.
That was the program until the last few years.
Nobody disputes Moore’s Law hit its guardrail.
Chips aren’t getting faster - because they cannot be made smaller.
So if you cannot make stuff run faster, you need bigger data centers - using more kilowatts, destroying farmland - all to handle I/O.
Nobody ever thought if I/O is over 98% of what a computer does - and if we reduce I/O which is about everything after you hit the enter key - maybe stuff would run FASTER.
Fractal did.
When one optimizes - to almost eliminating I/O - outcomes change radically.
Applications run 1,000 to a million times faster.
Thus, you need 1/1,000th the hardware for the same work.
Thus you burn 1/1,000th the energy.
Thus - any current data center can do 10 to 1,000 to a million times the work - on current hardware - with little to no additional energy usage.
Thus, you do not need more data centers because America today has a thousand to a million times the compute power than it thought it had.
Read that again - because it is now provably at hand.
New data centers are obsolete out of the box and will become stranded assets - ugly, closed, boarded up high tech malls of the future - like that JC Penney mall in your area.
Low I/O technologies like Fractal and others are making great headway with the government and major corporations who learn quickly they can re-platform any data center-consuming application in 90 days or less, and it runs 10 times to 1,000 times faster - without additional energy.
And it runs at 1/10th the cost.
Those are fatal economics - whether you are a SQL lover or not - disruptive economics always win. Literally always.
We don’t ask anyone to believe us - because when an idea comes forth - and disrupts current conventional thinking, there is no way to keep it in a bottle - even if we wanted to - which of course, we don’t.
We simply ask that you let us demonstrate it to you - with real data center systems - moved to a computer you can hold in your hand.
The venture community found its way to our doorstep - and 18 months ago offered us $100 million for 10% of the company. We passed - because our customers do all the funding we need.
They knew the I/O equation could be optimized and knew we had an answer - working today - in huge production sites - so we aren’t a risk.
Four hedge funds call us regularly - because they are positioning an option strategy to buy “puts” on Palantir and Oracle - whose valuation will collapse when low I/O computing goes mainstream.
Maybe Michael Burry - the guy in the movie The Big Short - knew disruption was coming when he bought his millions of dollars in Palantir put options.
One of the hedge funds even did a test to prove Fractal could hit the mark - and they now work with us.
The world needs quantum-speed, today, on current hardware, without data centers - and low I/O computing delivers it.
Our customers are not too crazy about us demonstrating their systems to potential new customers - and we wouldn’t do that.
So we build demonstration systems.
Last week, we were given an Apple Studio - a computer the size of a shoe box - and we took the equivalent of multiple data centers - and ran everything on the Apple Studio - costing about $4,000.
The test consumed the energy of a table lamp.
The applications ran much faster than in a data center.
So we ran the applications of multiple data centers on a computer you can hold in your lap.
The future is at hand - we feel it because we receive calls from attorneys litigating to stop the mad dash to build data centers.
We show up with the Apple Studio in hand - and prove to citizen groups or judges or Public Utility Commissions the scam of data centers everywhere is just that - a scam.
There is no application currently running in any data center on the planet that cannot be moved to low I/O computing, in 90 days or less and run on an Apple Studio - or any other small computer.
They don’t just run 10 times to 1,000 times faster - they cost 1/10th of the application they replace.
We prove it every day.
Amazon, Microsoft, META and the tech giants never built low I/O technology.
Optimizing I/O is not a new thing - it is in fact a very old thing.
Low I/O technology is how we built applications in 1978.
There were no data centers of size, computers were expensive, you had to rent time on “the mainframe.”
So running stuff fast counted.
We built I/O-optimized systems and they screamed - 40 years ago.
When you ask why these giant technology companies don’t get it - it’s because nobody in their entire organization ever built an application without all the current high I/O-consuming building blocks.
They all use ancient software chunks like Oracle, VMware and other tech which prohibits I/O optimization.
The U.S. Government and major corporations are testing low I/O computing - and the results are staggering - entire applications that needed a data center now run on a computer you can hold in your hand.
The ground is shifting - those data centers are going to be abandoned assets in 5 years - your lifestyle ruined for nothing.
Every data center in Georgia, Wisconsin, New York, Virginia being planned will run its first electrons in 2 years - maybe more.
Just like the abandoned shopping mall - the ground is shifting under everyone’s feet - and the economics of low I/O technology will eliminate the need for many, likely most of those data centers.
Get ahead of this disaster - force your elected officials to test low I/O computing - not necessarily from us - just test it and see the results.
Then they will have empirical proof your community does not need more data centers - you need 2025 technology - adapted from work going back a generation - purpose-built to run without a data center.
So be hopeful - your land does not need to be destroyed for data centers.
Low I/O computing is here and growing today.
When you can deliver A.I. without a data center - at 1,000 times the speed - with provable results, and growing customers, the future is coming to you.
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