There is a demand for the data centers, but its not ai. That’s just the excuse. They’re building a surveillance state to track everyone. You thought the Chinese social credit system was bad just wait for the American freedom to lick billionaire boots surveillance system where anyone critical of the new nobility gets locked out of social mobility.
Also didnt they start planning this thing like three months ago. Most performers have their schedules set like a year in advance. My understanding is that a bunch if the acts didn’t even know they were in it.
Did you know that many of the companies that serve these cameras are data collection firms that sell the data they collect, often to governments for the purpose of tracking people wherever they go. But yeah I guess this the only way we can get people to slow down.
You know, speed cameras are expensive to cities, and a lot of the fines go to paying the company servicing the cameras rather than filling the local coffers. Not to mention they contain a Iot of copper and other sellable materials.
Okay, I mean yes opposing a genocidal colonial regime is definitely one of the better things they’ve done, sure. Still not terribly good though.
By that same token the Iranian government can be shitty and at the same time not deserve to be overthrown for the sake of imperial resource pillaging.
The arc of technology progress since the crash in the early 2000s has been pump and dump scams perpetrated on the entire market.