#Tech Bros & #AI are existential threats: to🌎, the grid, #democracy, #climate, ppl, jobs...
#BigTech is going all in on experimental clean-energy projects that've long odds of success anytime soon.
#Microsoft is betting on an effort to gen. power from atomic fusion -breakthrough *eluded scientists for the past C. Physicists predict it will elude the co too. Tech cos: promised clean energy would be this magical, infinite resource -coal plants are being reinvigorated...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/