The cost bearing potential of AI data centers must be addressed in terms of whom benefits and how much. There is little benefit to the consumer of AI if they inadvertently pay for it via their utility bills, environmental damage, and job disruption. This sounds like another corporate scam courtesy of the current grifters in our government. Say no to AI data centers pending public community meetings and appropriate legal safe guards which benefit the less powerful consumers over the more powerful corporations. That might begin to get some constructive dialogue going. But, no action until the public is satisfied.
If AI as predicted will cause massive unemployment, and it probably will, the time is now to drive economic inequality away by increasing wages and limiting hours so more people can be employed and still make as much or more than before. Create more jobs in clean energy, in cleaning our waterways, in monitoring clean air . . . Government could help a tired world and keep AI from destroying it. Will it?
Don't you mean who pays for the AI bubble just like who paid for the housing bubble during the great recession.
You got it my friend until we do something corporate will always place us on the hook and hang us out to dry.
The cost bearing potential of AI data centers must be addressed in terms of whom benefits and how much. There is little benefit to the consumer of AI if they inadvertently pay for it via their utility bills, environmental damage, and job disruption. This sounds like another corporate scam courtesy of the current grifters in our government. Say no to AI data centers pending public community meetings and appropriate legal safe guards which benefit the less powerful consumers over the more powerful corporations. That might begin to get some constructive dialogue going. But, no action until the public is satisfied.
If AI as predicted will cause massive unemployment, and it probably will, the time is now to drive economic inequality away by increasing wages and limiting hours so more people can be employed and still make as much or more than before. Create more jobs in clean energy, in cleaning our waterways, in monitoring clean air . . . Government could help a tired world and keep AI from destroying it. Will it?
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The rich. They get all the tax breaks, loopholes, subsidies and bailouts when they're too big to fail.
We the people get nothing. Except stuck with the bill. For a check written on our bank account. Done so without our permission.
It's the Grift-o-fascist dine and dash.