BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations (finance.yahoo.com)

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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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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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

[-] AVHeiro@awful.systems 7 points 3 months 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.

[-] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yay. More AI.

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