And they will probably do it too.
Frontier tech companies build algorithmic science experiments, release them to the public as real products that replace applications and people, which we find are not actually applications or effective trustworthy workers, then ask customers and consumers to build the applications tech firms used to create and sell, and now they want us to foot the bill on the infrastructure to let us use the dumb experiment. Tens of thousands of workers that used to transition tech R&D into real products are laid off. And politicians are bribed with billions of dollars to create or block legislation that would make tech firms responsible for and take the burden on of actually delivering a real solution to meet their hype. So what happens when people can’t make a living and recycle money back into a consumer oriented economy? A Great Depression. I guess the tech bros create their new society on the moon and Mars with the money they raided from the government coffers. What a $&!7 show.
And if you negotiate well, Microsoft will even let you choose which half of the country?
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?
Do it like Musk and build your own generators, that harm locals. Problem solved.
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.
Half the country? In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to build two data centers?
A sacrifice the weak should be thankful to make, for Capitalism. /s
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™.”
For you, the day microslop graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for microslop, it was Tuesday.
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
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.
This is why corpos prefer dictators.
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.
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.
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
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
This seems like an outrage optimized article and headline. I would expect them to utilize and build power sources in this context,i.e. not compete with citizen power and potentially cheapen electricity.
Do you see any credible evidence of that? Above anything, corporations get high off their own farts when they do anything good-will adjacent. If they planned on meeting the demand for power, a huge corporate production would be made of it.
Kenya was supposed to pay for geothermal capacity and didn’t. Not suck off them corpos.
Bad publicity is bad for corpos. Cartoonishly evil is usually propaganda.
To what end? Surely the payoff is way less than the resources it consumes. This is pure, unbridled dystopic social “terra-forming”. People of the globe, unite!
