Every “I’ll just ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”, every LLM-generated summary, is driving data centres on a mission to
“be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts, dump ‘23 atom bombs worth of energy’ into the environment every day, and terrify locals”
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…But hey, that’s no different than flying through climate breakdown, or eating meat that wastes 9 out of 10 calories to provide just 1 while polluting rivers and denuding forests.
And that’s working out just fine
…People are saying the scale of data centre at the top will never get built: that pitching them is just a ploy to keep capital flowing into the space.
Probably. But the chips are still being fabbed and the outcome of that alone is absolutely *not fab*
…But also probably, the whole sucky thing is already sucking at fumes. And we’re just in the waiting room of the mother of all crashes
@urlyman
...and every search on a search engine that serves up AI slop automatically
So many ways people are being duped into using AI without being aware of it...
