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And if you negotiate well, Microsoft will even let you choose which half of the country?
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?
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.
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™.”
This is why corpos prefer dictators.
Half the country? In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to build two data centers?
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
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)
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
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.
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
“Bill Gates is such a philanthropist, he’s a ‘good’ billionaire.”
The fuck he is. Also, if you think Bill has nothing to do with the direction of Microslop because he stepped down from the board a few years ago, think again.
“Gates’ advice is reportedly treated as gospel, and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership, and consequently, the success witnessed in the category.”
He also appears to represent Microslop at lots of official functions, like when the techbro oligarchs kissed Trumps ass at a dinner recently.
Makes sense, he and Orange Chicken are both Epstein pals.
it took me a minute to get Orange Chicken. and this is how i feel about it:
if i were to say “makes sense, he and General Tso are both Epstein pals” is that too many layers of abstraction? also is it worth besmirching the anglicized name of Zuo Zongtang? I think i just answered my own question there. but i just had a great idea for a punny thing to eat. we’ll call it [Krasnov]'s Chicken. I hate chicken so it’ll be hot dogs or boot leather or something, which is appropriate because he’s a liar. i’m thinking absolute poverty food. give me a few days. you decide whether that’s a possessive or contractive apostraphe i’m not telling. if you have suggestions i am open to them, this can be a group effort just i have some rules (i want to eat it and not die from eating it, that is the rule, tasting good is a plus)
Bill could drop dead tomorrow and nothing would change. corporate governance involves a lot more than one person.
Come on now, the people want simple answers to complex problems and blaming a single person serves this purpose.
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.
Ya but only the poor half? Knowing how things will turn out in America you just have to weight the material wealth of the two sides. Which ever is more wins.
