>"Such speculation is needed because AI is not currently sustainable. As the UN Environment Program observed last year, "The proliferating datacenters that house AI servers produce electronic waste. They are large consumers of water, which is becoming scarce in many places. [...]"
Until AI can fix its water problem it will remain a destructive technology. You can steal poor communities' resources and wreck the environment only for so long before the consequences become catastrophic. Unfortunately capitalism demands this outcome.
>"Such speculation is needed because AI is not currently sustainable. As the UN Environment Program observed last year, "The proliferating datacenters that house AI servers produce electronic waste. They are large consumers of water, which is becoming scarce in many places. [...]"
Until AI can fix its water problem it will remain a destructive technology. You can steal poor communities' resources and wreck the environment only for so long before the consequences become catastrophic. Unfortunately capitalism demands this outcome.