• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry.

    yes, but also facepalm this is still missing the point

    Big Tech industry

    ^ taps the sign above my head

    THAT is the problem, yes the US version is one of the more aggressive cancers but recognize that the US is a product of the US mindset that worships big tech.

    People are running out of water for their families because a category of techbro running my country consider the power hungry datacenters powering this AI “techboom” more important than human lives.

    points at the sign

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      In a much more regulated environment you would have recycled water instead of destroying families water supplies.

      A lot of these critiques are of unregulated capitalism as opposed to the entity of big tech itself. Now can you have big tech without unregulated capitalism maybe not, there’s a reason it’s as broken of a system as it is.

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      who has run out of water due to a data centre?

      secondly that sounds like a local government issue

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          So what, we in the middle east should go fuck ourselves and always depend on others or something?

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          what about it?

          this has to be stupid tech story of the year

          wow they’re building a data centre in the uae call the police

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            You’re just some joker who wants to watch the world literally and figuratively burn, fuck off

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              if the data centres are powered by renewables then there is no impact, go fuck yourself

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                  13 hours ago

                  And there’s the issue: you CAN cool them with renewables, but it’s cheaper to just use insane amounts of water.

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                    I did not realize you could cool data centers with renewables. Is it done cooling water down a recycling it?

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                  Wow! What?! No one involved, not the people building the data centres, the planning commissions, the approvals, the local and federal governments, it seems everyone involved completely forgot that except you, a guy who reads the guardian.

                  here’s your imaginary trophy, smartest guy in the thread🏆

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                Giant fucking if, and what about anybody anywhere says that they’re going to make the investment for renewables, they’re lying