Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
robcorneliusThis has to end, right here and now. There is talk of building a huge new reservoir in Oxfordshire too. I bet it will be used for data centres not for drinking water.
Neo-liberal economics demands unlimited economic growth so capitalists create new shit to buy whether we want or need it. AI is the equivalent of cheap plastic crap at the dollar/pound store. We know its crap and it will break in 5 minutes. We still buy it because we are told we have to and there is no alternative.
Model collapse can't come quick enough. On the other hand it might have already happened and the people making billions shovelling this shit down our throats don't care.