tl says we're lemmings heading for the cliff;

 

 The memo from on high is that we’re all going to have to subsidize Artificial Intelligence (AI), because AI is critical to our national security. What they mean by “subsidize” is perhaps lose your pension, your 401k, your hidden metals. They’ll confiscate what they need to maintain a constant construction and operation of data centers.

The US currently has 3,960 data centers compared to China’s 365 and Russia’s 178. If it were data centers that was going to make a strategic difference, we’re already well in the lead. Not all of those are being used for AI, some of them are being used to store the trillion terabytes of surveillance footage of every living American from birth to death. They are analyzing, collating and making projections from the trillion terabytes of information they already have on all of us and expanding to include what they will collect in the future.

At least China did it right, they built the power plants first and the data centers second. No matter how many the US has, if it cannot power (and, more importantly, cool) them, they’re useless, but we have spent decades anticipating the threat of global warming and not only not building power plants, we’re running on a dilapidated grid.

Artificial Intelligence and the data centers that support them are an excuse to increase electricity rates, plunder the nation’s private wealth, (since such ideas have already plundered the public treasury) and impoverish the people, who will likely kill each other off when this whole scheme implodes..........more...........