• orioler25@lemmy.world
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    Straight up, it would be mortally dangerous for federal US reps to bailout tech. The industry is wildly unpopular, has openly threatened labourers with forced redundancy, polluted and\or poisoned vulnerable communities, and houses some of the most famous billionaires in the country. This is not an industry that thousands of blue-collar workers depend on for wages and produces products that people need to survive. Also, the US state is subject to the most open resistance and condemnation it has had since the Civil Rights Era (even privileged groups find the erasure of wealth disparity appealing now too).

    Seriously, I think if this were to happen, it would result in violent retaliation.

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        Also, it’s not even just AI actually using more energy, it’s also more capacity being constructed in anticipation of it. The upshot is, even if the demand from AI goes away the higher costs would remain because all that extra infrastructure still needs to be paid for.

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      Man then I hope it bust soon. Because they want build 27 AI data centers in Oklahoma. If this happens say goodbye to our water supply. But revolt what we need.

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        Fuck eh, guess the state has absolute power over everybody within its grasp and all those periods of revolt and revolution were fake news.