Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    It’s well worth it if you ask me. The school children can sit in the dark and hot/cold (delete as appropriate) so Bob in Idaho can generate a 30 second video of Yoda dancing to Wannabe in the style of Studio Ghibli, which he will look at once and then never again.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      I know you are doing memes here, but I’d like to point out that the AI’s output (in a big tech “human replacement” situation) isn’t the end product, it is merely marketing, propaganda of the “ultimate solution”, worthy of throwing all the computing power in the world at it, at the expense of you ever owning any.

      It’s mimicry so impressive, you are no longer even worthy to touch the same brush, to hum the same tune, to stroke the same ink upon the page.

      They will take it from you for you simply do not understand. After all, how could you?

      • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I recognize that this is perhaps the motivation of the tech’s peddlers right now. It’s not a foregone conclusion that this is what’s going to happen.

        Just from an economic angle, they need somebody to pay for all of this. It isn’t self sustaining. If we have no more jobs, no more artists, and all live broke, hand to mouth, who is going to pay for all this processing hardware they bought on credit, let alone the services they try to push on us that don’t work? Until they can plug us in like in the Matrix there’s still hope.