TechTakes

1394 readers

54 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

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

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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