Joseph Pereira wrote to All <=-
That's the message the Trump administration has given to Big Tech companies. They should invest in power plants, nuclear energy, or other energy sources to keep the AI sector running.
It's all a bubble, propping up a failing economy. Hearing about AI
swaps, it's all about reporting revenues without making money. A shell
game that usually happens near the end of the bubble.
This makes these companies even more powerful, because they are now
also becoming energy giants.
Science Fiction gives us the notion of a transnational corporation.
Wait until a corporation gets so big they can base themselves in a
small country that they effectively run. A company with power
generating faculties would be in a good place for that.
Their power over water rights will also increase, which will come at
the expense of the influence of residents and the state.
The CEO of Nestle has been very clear that, to him, water is a commodity
that should be paid for, not a right.
How much influence does the state still have if the companies can
operate completely independently of the state?
See above. We're in the state now where a few well-placed bribes,
tributes, settled court cases or other shakedowns can influence
government to business' advantage, where penalties for corporate
malfeasance are little more than parking tickets to corporations. A
dystopia where corporations have more right to free speech than
individuals, where justice can be usurped, and it can all be explained
on a balance sheet.
So I don't support this position of the US government. They are now placing responsibility for everything on the companies. This will mean that these companies will cut corners, and the environment will be one
of the first victims. That, in turn, is negative for everyone living
near such a company.
The fact that closed-system liquid cooling systems aren't in use in data centers is appalling. How could someone allocate water to cooling
hardware when people go thirsty.
Oh, yeah. They cost more. Greedy bastards.
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