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But is it a crime to get a cat baked? 🤔

How are you supposed to have a growing economy if the money just goes to the plebians at the bottom? Checkmate! There have been studies done that say universal income is BAD, and NEGATIVELY IMPACTS just about EVERYTHING. Those were conducted by big real corporate scientists, not some lousy government or other scientists trying to find ways to benefit society. If your landlord makes a good amount of money, your rent goes down because they just have so much money already of course. Your money spent at the grocery store lets the grocery store buy MORE food, and yet you complain about the prices. You're practically giving to charity, people need that food. I mean, not the poor people who need it the most, the IMPORTANT people.

Uh... /s just in case

Using his wolf like fangs, unrelated to werewolves, he bites gingerly, slowly, cautiously, gently, carefully, methodically, sluggishly, and ever so gradually into your neck as he claims you for generations to come, in more ways than one

It's shocking how many confederate flags there are in what was such a pro-union state

A complicated question to answer, I doubt anybody would have a definitively correct answer to it.

The answer is probably both really. It's not like the internet has just stopped expanding and everything is going into AI now. But AI takes up an unproportional amount of the computational power. A data center can house servers for hundreds of different companies or even individuals, all doing different things with them. An AI data center can be dedicated to one singular company who rents out the entire space for hundreds of servers purely for AI.

Much like it'd be difficult to count every human on earth, there will probably never be a definitive number on how much is dedicated to AI. However, a study by the Electric Power Research Institute in 2024 estimated that between 10-20% of data center power consumption came from AI.

That seems relatively low, until you consider that 10-20% is compared to the 80-90% of power that goes towards literally everything else across the entire internet, and it keeps going up rapidly. For every 8-9 servers used for accounting data, sales records, research, communication networks, streaming services, security systems, medical records, multiplayer game servers, automated factory processes, and everything else in the world that computers handle, there are 1-2 servers dedicated ENTIRELY to JUST AI. And the proportion going to AI just keeps going up.

Imagine if among every single factory in the world, 10-20% of them were dedicated to producing nothing but ping pong paddles, and that percent just keeps going up, the growth of ping pong paddle production outpacing the growth of every single other product in the world that comes from a factory. What the fuck do we need that many ping pong paddles for? Are the ping pong paddles really doing enough to justify this massive resource sink??

Data centers are actually useful for a lot of things, handling traffic to websites, storing records, academic research, and whatnot. There's a very good chance your medical records are distributed across various data centers.

AI is absolutely not one of those useful things, and is a big driving factor for the rapid expansion of new data centers which are sucking up so many valuable resources for something so useless. Data centers are not bad, AI data centers are bad

Thought this was talking about Albania's pacific security problem there for a second

I was an electrician in Ohio, and it goes the other way too. Drive through snow storms in freezing temperatures to go work in a building that doesn't even have walls

Your soul would still be owned by the devil in the meantime, whatever that implies

I think Alderaan would like to disagree

Professionals have standards

Wait I thought they were just talking about butter on a poptart as a joke...