A sacrifice the weak should be thankful to make, for Capitalism. /s
For you, the day microslop graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for microslop, it was Tuesday.
I’m already drooling at the prospect of them repackaging it and selling it back to us. “After acquiring contractual control of the electrical grid and pushing several security updates, we bring you e-power, an NFT driven energy packet exchange market. Now in partnership with DraftKings™.”
And if you negotiate well, Microsoft will even let you choose which half of the country?
This is why corpos prefer dictators.
And they will probably do it too.
Do it like Musk and build your own generators, that harm locals. Problem solved.
Where are all the fucking brain trusts that spent the last year telling me AI data centers aren’t actually that bad and it’s just like watching YouTube?
Half the country? In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to build two data centers?
Original reporting by Bloomberg is here or here for an archive.is version.
Sounds like the talks are stalled about revenue guarantees from the Kenyan government, if demand for the data center’s capacity never shows up. The power infrastructure isn’t really an issue yet, since the first phase is going to be 100MW and there are plans to build geothermal plants sufficient to cover several multiples of the country’s current power usage, including whatever demand comes from this data center.
Spend the offline time learning to make home made bombs and molotov’s and buying weapons, the data center will be built, it’s about if it’ll stay up or not
Frontier tech companies build algorithmic science experiments, release them to the public as real products that replace applications and people, which we find are not actually applications or effective trustworthy workers, then ask customers and consumers to build the applications tech firms used to create and sell, and now they want us to foot the bill on the infrastructure to let us use the dumb experiment. Tens of thousands of workers that used to transition tech R&D into real products are laid off. And politicians are bribed with billions of dollars to create or block legislation that would make tech firms responsible for and take the burden on of actually delivering a real solution to meet their hype. So what happens when people can’t make a living and recycle money back into a consumer oriented economy? A Great Depression. I guess the tech bros create their new society on the moon and Mars with the money they raided from the government coffers. What a $&!7 show.
Silly people. AI is bring built by and for the rich folks. Many of you may die by AI but that is a sacrifice the very wealthy are very willing to make.
Who will be left to be poor if they keep this up? It will just be them, and their killbots.
At this point I am wondering if the decision makers at these companies are incompetent or malicious and literally don’t know what they are building and just see big number.
(it’s both)
grid colonialism, coming soon near you.
Malicious of course. They get their data centers, and they don’t give a rats ass about the local population. They deliberately choose locations where local leadership is easy to bribe, like the US and other third world countries.
I’m from a ‘third world country’ and I don’t wanna be grouped with the US ok? We have free healthcare
They are also very dumb imo. The clever ones fly under the radar to let the dumber ones test the waters for them to follow safely and comfortably.
And racist. They’re also racist.
they don’t care. it’s not maliciousness or incompetence, it’s indifference.
The government doesnt have to accept. If this proposal is going to knock out power for half your country and you accept that deal you should be thrown in prison.
It looks like they are pushing back. But when you have neither nukes nor a drone fleet, there are limits to what you can say to a US company.
My list of political figures that should have been thrown in prison but haven’t keeps growing, and I’m starting to suspect there are sorely lacking checks and balances on most politicians.
I think you have a typo. But I agree.
I did thanks for pointing that out.
no, how it works is the government accepts, the political leaders get rich, and anyone who fights this gets thown in jail.
Corruption can be prosecuted
Anyone who would decide to do this is evil. Like, orphan crushing machine evil.
If Microsoft wants to build that excess capacity, that would be reasonable. If Microsoft wanted to finance that excess capacity so Kenya could build it, that would also be reasonable. This is fucked up.
Is it really this hard to just say “no” to Microslop? You’re realising that it’ll hurt the country and its population (as well as the environment and by extension literally every single person on earth), why the fuck would you put you own personal wealth first?
I don’t get that mindset.
This is why you’re not a billionaire. It takes a special kind of cutthroat
The word you’re looking for is sociapth. You need to be a sociopath to become a billionaire
They should just say no. Unless Microsoft pays for the construction of the renewable power plants to power the centers. Before they turn it on
That way the country at least has some nice infrastructure when the DC inevitably doesn’t actually get built
