The best part is that we spent 15 years cutting emissions just so a handful of billionaires could burn the savings teaching chatbots to summarize emails nobody wanted to read. Then they’ll sell us AI powered climate solutions, funded by taxpayers, to clean up the mess. Innovation really is a beautiful circle.
Here’s a crazy idea, spend the money on power/network infrastructure now, and build more renewable power generation as we go.
That way, in the worst case scenario, you have cheap renewable power for a generation rather than warehouses of depreciating and unused silicon.
Wonder why they decided to run them on NG… Hmmm
It prolly would have also happened with any other president, maybe just not that excessively. Billionaires will always have their way.
Ya well this one has been one of no regulations.
It’s funny how they’re still saying “could”, when they really should be saying “will”.
just increase carbon taxes until these companies switch to green energy
That would actually be smart. With the current hype, there’s a lot of money floating around. Increasing that a bit more to fulfill regulations would be a non issue to them. We might even end up with more advances to green technology simply because at that scale it’s worth to invent new solutions.
New data center construction should stop immediately.
The oligarchy doesnt care about pesky issues like the environment
Reminds me the time, when people theorized Musk wanted to accelerate climate change, so that governments would fund his Mars colonization pet project.
I’m not too worried. This bubble is going to collapse. The demand isn’t there and the money to turn a profit sure isn’t. The news over the last two days hasn’t been so hot for the AI companies.
A lot of damage is still done, though. Just thinking of the fiasco in Finnland
There was progress?
