Sunday, October 27, 2024

Tech Industry Subsidy Miners

Big tech companies like Microsoft and Google want to use nuclear reactors to run data centers; I assume it's all about scams like carbon credits and government subsidies. It's one of the dopiest ideas I hear kicked around. Nuclear is always going to be the most expensive option for electricity production. Labeling it "green" and throwing government cheese at those projects probably won't even offset the expense.

The major problem in the world today is institutions sucking up resources that individuals should be directing. Individuals are competing with giant organizations with ersatz, make work goals that spend oodles of resources on projects that don't matter at all. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the whole "self-driving" car project for example--who cares? More and more resources pour into "AI" projects that barf up dumb search results and nonsensical advice and gibberish summaries of articles.

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