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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible (futurism.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You're kidding yourself. They're going to be bailed out by our fascist oligarchies, with contracts to use the data centers for totalitarian mass surveillance "to protect our freedom and national security".

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Except the bailout at this point is more money than exists, you'd have to print so much money as to cause instant hyper inflation and cause an even worse economic crash that would take AI with it anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    For a while, I thought their end-game was simply to get "too big to fail" before the bubble burst and get that bailout. But you are right - they either overshot or have some other idea in mind because now they are too big to bailout.

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