Fraumünster church to be converted into a server farm
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After a long discussion and planning period, the construction work for the conversion of the Fraumünster church into a new high performance data center has begun. The church is supposed to house more than 10 000 GPUs, providing compute power of more than 20 petaFLOPS, while consuming 20 kW under peak load. Thick stone walls, as well as cool water diverted from the nearby Limmat will enable high efficiency thermal management in this innovative project, while the central location allows for high-speed connectivity into the Zurich metropolitan area. While citizen initiatives raised concerns about the planned modifications, church officials argue for modernization:"Of course, this project brings significant changes for this space of religious contemplation, but we believe that it is not destruction, but merely going with the times. The flickering of candles will be replaced with the blinking of status LEDs and instead of whispered prayers, there will be the whirring of fans. To imitate the effect of stained glass windows, we will bring in high color depth RGB-LED lighting"
When asked about the reasoning behind the massive changes for one of Zurich's most iconic buildings, priest John Square talks about being innovative in an environment known for its long-standing traditional values: "What we are trying to introduce with this project, in cooperation with the Vatican, is a paradigm-shift for christianity. Significant parts of theology build on the fact that God is an omniscient being so far removed from humans that its motives and actions could not possibly be comprehended by mere mortals, and therefore should not be questioned. We realized that the same also applies to a lot of modern machine learning methods, and therefore that God can be replaced by algorithms. By giving them an adequate space in our churches and our hearts, we believe that we can get even closer to transcendencing."
This follows a recent papal directive calling for digitalization of the christian church. Mass, a key part of christian religion since its inception, was a way of spreading moral values to the believing population. A tradition now deemed unnecessary, as LLMs have been trained on every philosophical and theological text ever written, far exceeding the amount of knowledge ever comprehensible by a single human. Users can therefore always be provided with the morally correct beliefs, while not being required to attend any in-persone events, as the right content can be directly placed in their feeds. Pastoral care gave people an opportunity to talk about personal problems with or ask for advice from a trained professional. With LLMs, users will now be able to directly prompt God. Like-minded people were brought together by church services, giving them an opportunity to socialize and form a community. This role is supposed to be filled by social media algorithms, that, through knowledge gathered by Good Companies™, are predicted to know every person by 2035. They will ensure that users are connected to a suitable social environment and exchanging the right feelings. A separate pilot project is currently investigating the use of medical AI for the implementation of miracles of healing, after a donation of the necessary amount of tokens has been made.
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