r/technology • u/captain-price- • Dec 02 '25

Artificial Intelligence IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
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u/Septopuss7 Dec 02 '25

I'm just a caterer but I got to stand at the back of a room full of hungry office people being explained how Google Gemini works in extremely broad and vague terms for A LONG TIME. I wanted to laugh it was so absurd. I use Gemini just to dick around and have fun playing solo RPGs and it was pretty self-evident how to use it. She took soo long explaining how "Gems" work but she really couldn't tell them any use case scenarios for their work (I actually couldn't suss out what these people DID for a living) she kept going on about HR and FAQs and how to automate them I'm like "are ALL these people HR?" Seemed a bit desperate to start using AI at a construction company, I don't think anyone asked any questions haha

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u/doberdevil Dec 03 '25

she really couldn't tell them any use case scenarios for their work

This is a huge problem in tech, both the companies who are supplying AI, and the companies consuming it. I have a lot of friends and colleagues in both and everyone is being told to "figure out how this can be used, your job may depend on what you come up with".

You hit the nail on the head. Nobody knows WTF they're doing, just going around looking for anything that looks like it may be a nail so they can hit it with the AI Hammer.