Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Alex Hanna (alex@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 01:06:04 JST Alex Hanna

   What kind of residue will the AI bubble's popping leave behind? New newsletter post from me.

   https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/the-grimy-residue-of-the-ai-bubble/

   • Embed this notice
     Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 16:33:21 JST Scott Matter

     in reply to

     @alex

     This bit:

     “Will data centers go the way of shopping malls? Likely not--they'll be repurposed for other massive computing projects. But what about those climate pledges? Will they be continued to be kicked down the road? To 2050? To 2075? Likely to some time which is too little, too late.”

     Reminds me of what fossil fuel corps and governments seem to be stuck on: all this identified “resource” in the ground, would be a shame to just leave it there… and so we go smashing through promises about 1.5C.

     In both cases, it’s not because this stuff served people’s needs or because we can’t live without it but because capital can’t grow without it and growing capital is really all they care about

     clacke likes this.