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Caleb James DeLisle profile picture
This whole AI Datacenter Craze in America has got to be one of the biggest Let Them Eat Cake moments in history.

Here you've got an economy where everyone is struggling, everyone's on the edge - or fallen off. Nobody can buy a house anymore, nobody can start a family.

Everybody knows what ram costs, what GPUs cost, etc...

And then you've got the elites who are like "SHOULD WE BUILD ONE NEW DATA CENTER OR TEN?!?!"

And they're able to just wave a magic wand and conjure so much money that they can have enough GPUs to actually stress the electricity grid... And then when they can't get grid power, they just wave the wand again and conjure enough money to buy tanker loads of diesel fuel to run everything on generators.

I'm not that much of a socialist, but you can't have a society where The Average Person is on the edge of desperation while a couple of guys get to just piss hundreds of billions of dollars on hobby projects.
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FourOh-LLC · 6w
Guess what Iran did with all their water and electricity? They are mining cypto, which is the stupidest use of data-centers. So the US is not the only one, there is an arm-race just as destructive as the tens of thousands of ICBMs of the Cold War was. At least I see not much of a difference.