Technology

Data centers are Mako reactors from FF7. They’re sucking the lifeblood of the Earth to use it to speed up our destruction at the hands of cartoonishly evil megacorps.

And the promise the tech companies sold their investors on was to cut out the need for human workers and replace them with defective chatbots.

That’s the next giant bubble that’s about to burst. Old money got taken by tech conmen who promised they could finally stop having to deal with human employees and their need for money for basic necessities.

It’s all just so incredibly evil. Billionaires are a blight on all of humanity. From Epstein’s Island to this incredibly shortsighted gamble and all the ones before it. They’re greedy, evil, and stupid, while being entirely unchecked by basic critical thinking.

They are actively trying to doom us all for just a little more.

If LLMs don’t turn into AGI and instead the AI bubble pops, maybe some of the data centers don’t get finished. Even so, many of the rest will likely continue to operate and consume water.

The US federal government will soon start decreeing how the overdrawn Colorado River will be resolved and things will get very ugly. Western water rights law is an unsustainable construct and all real solutions hurt rich people (even as they also hurt everyone else). Maybe the current administration is waiting until enough of the data centers are built before “solving” the water crisis by prioritizing AI over crops and humans in the name of national security.

But we’re still living in a bad B movie. If AGI actually works and we get SkyNet in the end, then the water infrastructure in most of those regions is probably plenty for the machines once all of the humans are gone.