BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations (finance.yahoo.com)

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investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels

now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.

If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

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