As Tech Won't Save Us (@techwontsaveus) explained in their Data Vampires series, scAmazon doesn't want to build datacentres in Aotearoa to benefit us. It's a way of mining our country for cheap renewable energy, and cheap labour (remember the infamous "Mexicans with cellphones"?). Which they can then extract from the country in the form of dollars.

Their extractive logic was laid bare when our energy prices went up, and they massively scaled back their plans.

#Amazon #DataVampires

@lightweight
> hyperscalers are a big loser

... in general. The #DataVampires series @parismarx did for the Tech Won't Save Us podcast is a great exploration of this;

https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataCentres #HyperScale

@sidawson

Coda:

Dan McQuillan, a lecturer at Goldsmiths University, doesn't mince words when describing the implications of all this;

"'AI' has a tendency towards fascistic solutionism."

https://techwontsave.us/episode/247_data_vampires_fighting_for_control_episode_4

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #fascism #technocracy #TechnoSolutionism

Paris Marx makes pretty much this point in episode 3 of Data Vampires;

https://techwontsave.us/episode/245_data_vampires_sacrificing_for_ai_episode_3

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #AI #TrainedMOLE

@mcc as #DataVampires #podcast series by @parismarx from #TechWontSaveUs points out, the data centres need to sell more compute. No better way than to get eejits to shoehorn AI into everything and anything.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1