• IratePirate@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    Let me guess: the milllions of electricians are tasked with building the AI data centres, while the plumbers build the plumbing needed to flush all those tons of generated slop down the drain?

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Yep. And then everyone dies from the water shortages and the world population consists of a handful of billionaires surrounded by a vast dystopian landscape of data centres running AI for them… to do what, exactly? No one knows. But they want it!

      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Weird, because you could convert the cooling to distillation and make drinking water. But, as is tradition, suffering is the point.