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submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels

now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Feels like the overlap of "people who love ai" and "people who put echos around Blackrock" might make for some really pathetic pissing and moaning.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.

If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is the kind of thing that makes me feel paranoid. Oh, you want lots of power stations? For AI?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

But hey, your car is killing the planet. Better get a bicycle or an electric car.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

I have a bicycle, and if I see Bill Gates I'm going to throw it at him.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yay. More AI.

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