investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels
now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness
BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-microsoft-aim-raise-30-202200420.html
5 Comments
penquin@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y
maol@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
I have a bicycle, and if I see Bill Gates I'm going to throw it at him.
o7___o7@awful.systems · 12 pts · 1y
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
AVHeiro@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y
Feels like the overlap of "people who love ai" and "people who put echos around Blackrock" might make for some really pathetic pissing and moaning.
maol@awful.systems · 5 pts · 1y
This is the kind of thing that makes me feel paranoid. Oh, you want lots of power stations? For AI?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yay. More AI.