While the rest of the country is rapidly crumbling, at least we know some gigantic Corp is doing everything they can to hasten our demise for their profit

We’re continuing to accelerate climate change for this?

Our descendants a thousand years into the future are going to look back on this time period with absolute disgust, knowing we sleepwalked into destroying the environment potentially for the remainder of our species’ existence - and we did it for the dumbest possible reasons.

Piketon is radioactive and toxic to live near there due is longterm role preparing radioactive materials for profit. I wouldn't feel comfortable even driving through that town. I'm not sure if that makes it a good place for a datacenter or not.

I don't get it. $70-80 billion for an AI data center, plus continued investment for hardware upgrades - how are they planning on making money from this?

I get that we're in a bubble but I've never seen this level of collective delusion/desperation before in the tech space.

Gross.

We really need to shut this shit down

It's gonna be weird when a lot of people switch to using local models....

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world

This is getting totally out of control.

Surly they have EMP protection, right?

This Japanese corporation who appears to be harmless in comparison to other tech corporations with overtly hostile intentions...

My Frontpage on Lemmy is now currently telling me that we're on the brink of a terrible energy crisis due to the Iran war. And then this.

Gee, I hope there isn't a major spike in energy prices next month...

I think companies are maybe preparing for the Compute as a Service thing, but I don't think it will work.

I believe williams is the LNG supplier and they will have this off the network of regular LNG. It will be on its own.

From the slow graveyard spiral that was so gentle we would never even notice when the future impacted with the fucking ground, to this:

Pitching the nose down 90° and kicking on the afterburners as we blast "rock you like a hurricane" while we hurdle to our doom.

Softbank, the company known for good investments.

Like WeWork.

Why are we treating this insanity as if it'll ever actually get built? Softball doesn't currently have $5B it can commit to a monster like that, let alone $500B. This is pure hypemongering.

How much methane is that gonna burn?

Isn't methane bad for the environment?

Can't wait for it to become AM

So none of that shit is gonna happen right? There can't be enough suckers to fund this thing. Softbank are known for being taken for a ride previously.

So I'm guessing this is a planned as in "Wouldn't that be neat" in the same way I have a planned dyson sphere.

natural gas

Say methane. It's methane. It's the same methane that is like 20x as bad for the environment as gasoline.