nixCraft 🐧Jun 23, 2024
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/ They are building machines whose primary purpose is to render humans obsolete. How stupid and greedy do you have to be destroying our planet and jobs?
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

The Washington Post
Show threadDavid Penfold Jun 23, 2024
@nixCraft But the economy! 😬
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@davep @nixCraft

Actualllllyyyyyyy without humans getting paid its worse for humanity

Jun 23, 2024 at 9:20pmWeb
Show threadDavid Penfold Jun 23, 2024
@JamesTown_ @nixCraft
I'm not sure my world weary irony shone through sufficiently there 😁
Show threadunlucio 🌍 Jun 24, 2024
@JamesTown_ @davep @nixCraft it's all more dividends for investors, that's all they care about 🤷‍♂️
Show threadjamesTownJun 24, 2024

@unlucio @davep @nixCraft

Yea but no, if noone gets paid noone can afford the goods. The money carousel has to go one.

Show threadunlucio 🌍 Jun 24, 2024

@davep @nixCraft @JamesTown_ That's very true, but it required a level of foresight that does not really belong to business people.
They'd ignore anything in lieu of profit.

Imho the problem is more that humanity has built an economic system that allows psychopaths to rise to the top.