• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      Currently, US policy is effectively:

      Destroy 1/4 of the world’s access to oil.

      But also, at the same time, build so many AI datacenters that they would require a second Germany worth of power production to run.

      Also the US has essentially zero capacity to natively build new power plants and transformers, we would have to import almost everything needed, and we’re also doing a tariff tradewar with the entire planet.

      And, 90% of companies report 0 or negative productivity returns from using AI.

      …So basically, constrict energy supply, increase energy demand, and use this energy to mostly just literally directly create massive heat islands that do basically nothing for the actual real economy.

      The plan is literally ‘throw gasoline on the fire, and maybe the gasoline will become sentient and tell us a less stupid way to do things.’

      … this is a long way of me saying ‘yes i agree with you’.