How the Iran war could derail the AI boom
Resources mentioned: oil, gas, helium, sulphur, and bromine. Companies mentioned: Samsung, SK Hynix, TSMC. > Marko Papic, chief strategist at BCA Research … predicts a severe hit to chip production if the strait isn’t back in operation within a month. Could mean higher PC component prices, or even a halt in production. Could mean global recession.
AI boom is a poor choice of words, and I don’t believe the article’s starting paragraph.
For more than three years, AI has propped up global trade and investment and pushed stock markets from the US to Asia to record highs.
However, there is a boom in spending in AI, whether that actually yields anything or not. I read the article as meaning derailing that.
Huge datacenters being built everywhere taking as much power and water as entire cities. Its the foundation of our dystopia thats being built.
You can only imagine what kind of money these data centers are going to be making when the entire world depends on them to watch humanity, control robots, drones, cameras with real time AI analytics, vehicle control and monitoring, and so on.
Big tech is planning ahead. So I know they are talking about AI but its a lot more. The cant really say what they are investing all the money for. But its not hard to figure out.
No, it won’t. It will cause more of the supply to be reallocated away from consumers into enterprise, and that is exactly what the big tech companies want to see happen.
Having access to a computer and phone is as much of a necessity to survive in modern society as internet is. When personal computing is unaffordable to the point where subscription computing is a good enough “deal” for consumers to jump on, the ball will start rolling towards the inevitable price squeeze that we have no choice but to accept.
It’s so much worse than the rent they will charge us, brother.
If you thought Flock cameras were a bad situation, imagine not being able to query, read, write, or probably even speak about topics that they decide are “unpatriotic” or “satanic”.
LGBTQIA+, anti-Christianity, anti-capitalist, all that shit they declared were “terror group activity” that sounded like McCarthy red scare bullshit? Imagine being gay and not being able to talk about it IN YOUR OWN HOME.
Imagine not owning any electronics and being held under suspicion of plotting against the government.
These motherfuckers think they are gonna make automated kill bots which eliminate and worker drones from their hive that do not bend to their queen bee.
Our only hope, our ONLY hope, is that they are as incompetent as they appear to be.
The high-tech security shit is just another grift. All these cameras and surveillance everywhere but the rate at which crimes are solved or results in arrest prosecution is the same as always. It’s never been easier to shoplift since these AI systems took over stop-loss. Look at this war with Iran. The military has been been hallowed out. Not saying there’s nothing to worry about, it’s just that it won’t be like the movies where tech has made the authorities unstoppable.
They’re going to rely on people’s apathy and willingness to be cattle as long as they have slop content and slop nutrition paste. That sadly will probably be enough for a long time at least.
If you thought Flock cameras were a bad situation, imagine not being able to query, read, write, or probably even speak about topics that they decide are “unpatriotic” or “satanic”.
The only difference between right now and then is that right now they aren’t doing anything about it. They already have the data about people’s opinions and leanings as a side effect of the massive network of tracking built for targeted advertising.
It will obviously be worse when we’re stuck renting computers, but what you’re describing is a today problem just as much as it’s a future problem. The only reason it hasn’t turned full 1984 is because they haven’t gone full mask off yet.
Is the helium not reusable? It isn’t chemically reactive, so I wouldn’t expect it to be consumed.
I’ll be honest, shortages of some of these “ancillary” chemicals are not something I had anticipated.
/ancillary in quotes because they are still a really big deal
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