The staggering rise of AI has become a political flashpoint, especially when it comes to concerns about the impacts of the data centers needed to train and operate it.
The Colossus data center in Memphis puts out as much CO2 as all of the registered vehicles in Austin, Texas. 1 Data center (59 gas turbines) = a medium sized American city of pollution.
Makes me reflect on what a naive and hopeful child I was at the book fairs thumbing through those Scholastic books on global warming. Thought we had plenty of time to get it together.
Clear and present.
All the info on it we can consume won’t change the fact that none of it matters. Corporations make the rules. And the rules are: what we want is tertiary to their profits and power.
Those corporations just spent like a billion dollars to lose an election, we’ve got a better shot than we’ve had in a long time.
Oh for sure, but at the end of the day, AI is going to be running everything. Data centers aren’t going anywhere.
We went right around the window that would have allowed us to keep this shit on a leash. It’s over.