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Didn't people say this about crypto as well, like, a decade ago? Did anything come of that? I find it endlessly fascinating that the US tech industry keeps dev
by exasperaited 1y ago
Didn't people say this about crypto as well, like, a decade ago? Did anything come of that?
I find it endlessly fascinating that the US tech industry keeps developing new ways to consume absurd amounts of energy (even within the context of a government that still nominally has an Energy Star initiative) but still somehow thinks that power generation is someone else's problem and barely even takes a stake in it.
Google did some stuff a while back, locating data centres with power generation in mind, but do any of the main AI providers (putting aside xAI, which has its blurred-edge connection to Tesla) actually have holdings in power generation?
- UmGuys 1y agoEnergy Star was one of the victims of this administration.
- exasperaited 1y agoThat doesn't particularly surprise me, but was it just extreme DOGE cost-cutting or was it "one of the aicryptobros on the dais thinks this is antithetical to his business model"? (I suppose this could be a "porque no los dos?" meme moment)
- UmGuys 1y agoThe program makes money. Most of the programs DOGE cut are profitable or break even as far as I'm aware. They destroyed things for the sake of ideology.