Highly specialized computing power that nobody needs. These are not ordinary multipurpose data centers. Even if you could use the hardware to run models for, let’s say, cancer research: no one outside of the bubble is willing or able to stem the enormous costs of running the infrastructure.
I mean they have a pretty solid point. There is in fact not a single way better way that this money could be spent in a time of looming climate catastrophe than re-opening coal plants and wasting fresh water, in the desperate hope that we can make a super being god that will solve the active climate catastrophe. It’s basic economics really.
Highly specialized computing power that nobody needs. These are not ordinary multipurpose data centers. Even if you could use the hardware to run models for, let’s say, cancer research: no one outside of the bubble is willing or able to stem the enormous costs of running the infrastructure.
I mean they have a pretty solid point. There is in fact not a single way better way that this money could be spent in a time of looming climate catastrophe than re-opening coal plants and wasting fresh water, in the desperate hope that we can make a super being god that will solve the active climate catastrophe. It’s basic economics really.