351. How AI is Boiling the Oceans
Added 2024-07-03 02:50:02 +0000 UTCWe get into how the massive global expansion of data centres — thanks largely to demand from training and operating AI — is putting major strain on energy systems and requiring the generation of more electricity. How’s all that new energy demand being met? Some renewables, a lot of fossil fuels, but also maybe futuristic magic technology? Big tech firms like Micorosoft and their nuclear tech partners—including startups backed by Sam Altman and Bill Gates—say they expect to harness fusion by 2028. This prediction is totally unserious and fantastical, while also hiding the fact that the expansion of AI is powered largely by fossil fuels.
AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc On Global Power Systems https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/
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It is no longer profitable for companies to make new, more efficient, or better machines. As you have said before and others as well, it is about the establishment of new markets. GM has stated they intend to stop selling selling vehicles and instead leasing them, and sell the data. Nissan already sells your data and tracks your movements and conversations. It feels as though all of this is just competing of who can make the entropy of our world happen the fastest. AI has made Microsoft and Google as y’all said increase power usage by some 50%, and for what? The creation of a speculative market. Particularly as someone who interacts with and repairs machines every day, virtually every piece of technology we interact with every day is designed this way. And none of it is getting better. People are convinced that because their f150 is powered by an “ecoboost” engine that it isn’t the same 6cyl turbo motor they used before under a different moniker.
The former junkyard hoochie daddy
2024-07-10 14:30:38 +0000 UTCI work as a mechanic, and the amount of absolutely useless, wasteful, and poorly designed “technology” on automobiles today in a just society would have their designers executed and the executives of these companies companies drawn and quartered. Such useless “innovations” such as push button shifters, vibrating seats to help you backup your uneccesarily large Chevy suburban and buttons and screens everywhere in the vehicle do nothing but distract drivers, make them more unsafe, and make vehicles more expensive and more wasteful. All of these things require computers to operate, and are shrouded in plastics, which are non recyclable. At junkyards (one of which I worked at) cars are stripped *entirely* of all the reusable materials and the metals are separated. These plastics are not recyclable. Further, the plastics in engines now which are made to fail the moment the warranty expires passes the waste onto the secondary repair and used car market. Fuel lines and vacuum lines and every fucking thing else made of unreliable plastic now has to be manufactured two, three, four times instead of just once in a design made to not fail. What is the environmental cost of making these parts four times? And of transporting them from the manufacturer, to the store, to the consumer? These calculations are never considered in the automotive industry, just emissions and fuel economy, which still has remained largely stagnant since the 90s due to increased safety regulations and the bloating of American vehicles. A similar thing happened with vapes. What were once modular devices with reusable pods one filled with juice are now all disposable devices, or contain disposable pods. It’s no longer profitable th
The former junkyard hoochie daddy
2024-07-10 14:25:26 +0000 UTCDisrupt the conferences. Throw a wrench in the works. Jigger the GPS aiming system on drones. Activist groups have been rendered ineffective, too co-opted, comfy, or infiltrated to do anything meaningful.
Maenad
2024-07-03 22:43:06 +0000 UTC
