Former Google chief Eric Schmidt warns electricity shortages, not semiconductors, pose the biggest threat to AI superintelligence development. Here's what that means.
  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The crisis they created by chasing gains with no regard to efficiency.

    Edit: I just have to add this is typical capitalist behavior. They are chasing gains at with no regard to the consequences it will have on the public. And now here we are and these CEOs are starting to lobby that the public needs to do something about the electric grid that THEY have overstressed in their pursuit of profit.

    Privatize profits, socialize costs, the American Capitalist way.

  • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    Funny that decades of the GOP sabotaging progress on renewable energy like solar and wind, and torpedoing research into modernizing the power grid - specifically because it would make deploying renewable easier, will end up helping to hand the lead of possibly the most consequential industry of the 21st century over to China.