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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 01:29:13 JST Gerry McGovern

   “OpenAI is pursuing an ambitious plan to construct massive 5-gigawatt (GW) data centers across various locations in the United States. This initiative aims to support the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) processing, which requires substantial computational power. At what price to the energy grid do you suppose?”

   https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/note-to-our-energy-sucking-overlords

   Growth Death Cult goes full throttle. Tech bros accelerating for extinction.

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 01:29:12 JST alcinnz

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     @gerrymcgovern As far as I'm concerned "generative AI" is the Growth Death Cult incarnate!

     Its only possible because of the growth discipline, & is primarily used to further needless growth.

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     Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (paulwermer@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 08:27:02 JST Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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     • alcinnz

     @alcinnz @gerrymcgovern
     We are an unusual species. We have invested immense sums studying cancers, and have developed a reasonable understanding of why cancer kills: Its unrestrained growth interferes with the functioning of the body's organs - consuming nutrients needed by other cells, and invading organs, this impeding their ability to function.

     And so with this model of unconstrained growth, we happily build an economic system that replicates cancer in the larger world: over-extracting resources, squandering energy, generating waste we cannot get rid of, displacing essential ecosystems with land development and abusive agricultural & forestry practices.

     We do it for "money" and because of "property rights" that enable "prosperity" through growth.